Can You Hear Me Now?

Much is being written about the Bush wiretap case and so I suppose there’s no reason why I shouldn’t write something as well. So I will start with some quotes…

“One man, Wisconsin Sen. Russell Feingold accused fellow Democrats on Tuesday of cowering rather than joining him on trying to censure President Bush over domestic spying.”

And yet, Feingold doesn’t want to stop the wiretaps, he only wants the president to follow the law and obtain a warrant. In fact, under FISA. A warrant can be approved after the fact; so what’s the problem?

"They want to do just as they please, for as long as they can get away with it," Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think what is going on now without congressional intervention or judicial intervention is just plain wrong."

And the American Bar Association thinks that what the president is doing is illegal as well.

And then I heard someone speaking on NPR, a lady in Ohio, a registered Republican, and her comment was, “I think what he’s doing is fine. If you don’t have anything to hide, you shouldn’t have to worry.”

She doesn’t have a clue, does she? If there were nothing to worry about, why was this provision to make it illegal, part of our Constitution? And when you say you don’t have anything to hide, do you know who is doing the looking and do you know what they’re looking for? It’s not the president who decides…it’s some nameless bureaucrat who is doing the looking and they are being directed by equally nameless superiors. The Attorney General admitted that he couldn’t guarantee that all the rules would be followed by his staff.

Doesn’t anyone remember J. Edgar Hoover? The man who should have gone to jail for the illegal wiretaps he used…to gather information to further his ambitions of total power. Worry? You bet I do!