Monday, May 15, 2006

Guys - All partisan politicking aside, this is pretty damn terrifying:

ABC News reported today that the Bush Administration is using the NSA wiretaps to track phone conversations that members of the press are having. The goal is to uncover and squash anonymous sources that exposed things like the secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, the memos okaying torture, and the wiretaps themselves.

Not that I need to draw a picture, but this is pretty much the definition of a totalitarian response to freedom of the press. It's also a move that - if allowed to stand - will pretty much guarantee that our government really can do whatever they want without any checks or balances.

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