Phone Call Monitoring

President Bush is about to face the worst storm of his presidency. The Abu Gharab and Guantanamo distortions were nothing. The NSA wiretapping frenzy does not compare. Even Democrats know that the NSA listend in on conversations of known or suspected terrorists, yet created hysterics regardless.

The success of those grandstanding moments in the political polls is not only noticed, but lusted after by the Democrat party. They will be completly unable to avoid politicizing this issue. It isn't in their nature.

The American public can tolerate some degree of college pranks on Islamic terrorists. It can tolerate the compromise of privacy for the sake of security, if it is understood that there is a standard of reasonable cause. However, it can not tolerate knowing their personal phone calls are being monitored.

I don't know why Bush did this. I understand that security improvements had to be implemented quickly and thouroughly. I'm going to side with GW that this program has provided benefits to the security of this country. However, it doesn't matter what I think. The Left is going to take this one to the house.


Thursday May 11, 2006 - 07:14pm (MDT)