Update: Blah...blah...blah...How convenient it must be for the brainwashed to forever toss in a sprinkling of "where were you when Clinton did this or that" in order to defend an obvious hack of a president. More like where were you? Just because the Dubya cult fell asleep at the wheel 10 years ago doesn't mean I have to keep quite now. Personally, I don't care who's president...if he/she is incompetent and immoral I'll be the first one to bitch about it. Original: Go ahead and beat me with a greasy liberal stick, but you have to ask yourself...how much autonomy are you willing to abandon for the sake of "national security" (a term whose meaning, like "political correctness" has been lost in obscurity)? You'd have to be a complete dolt not to see the reasoning behind Bush's motives...it's his attitude that he is somehow above the law because of a "war". Understandably, this is not a conventional war, but that should not give any person a sanctimonious requisite to supercede conventional law. Personally, I was dumbfounded with his arrogant response that he had just decided, upon his own, that it was his presidential right, without due process to let the NSA loose on an unsuspecting public. I don't care what any of the supporters on this subject say, but absolute power corrupts absolutly, and you betcha the NSA took those reigns and ran with it. It makes me suspect what else "the sheriff" has been up to. How many other liberties have you unknowingly set aside? Turn your back on this one folks and you have essentially given the green light for a monocratic future.