Nixonian
Bush Confident Warrantless Wiretaps LegalPresident Bush again defended his program of warrantless surveillance Thursday, saying "there's no doubt in my mind it is legal." He suggested that he might resist congressional efforts to change or expressly endorse it.
"The program's legal, it's designed to protect civil liberties, and it's necessary," Bush told a White House news conference.
Okay, not quite Nixonian. Arguably one out of those three is correct.
New and Lemon-Freshened vocabulary note: Georgie's boys and sycophants are now calling it a "terrorist surveillance" program instead of a "warrantless domestic spying" program. Because a) "everyone" that they target is de facto a terrorist (at least to Georgie's boys) and b) it can't be "domestic" because they are listening to "international" phone calls--charged at international rates! No, really. (Look for "Back to the NSA.") I guess that surveillance sounds better than spying, too. And the warrantless thing is irrelevant, of course, since the program is legal, legal, legal! And warrantless would be illegal! So it can't be called that. There's no doubt in Georgie's tiny little mind of that.
"The program's legal, it's designed to protect civil liberties, and it's necessary," Bush told a White House news conference.
Okay, not quite Nixonian. Arguably one out of those three is correct.
New and Lemon-Freshened vocabulary note: Georgie's boys and sycophants are now calling it a "terrorist surveillance" program instead of a "warrantless domestic spying" program. Because a) "everyone" that they target is de facto a terrorist (at least to Georgie's boys) and b) it can't be "domestic" because they are listening to "international" phone calls--charged at international rates! No, really. (Look for "Back to the NSA.") I guess that surveillance sounds better than spying, too. And the warrantless thing is irrelevant, of course, since the program is legal, legal, legal! And warrantless would be illegal! So it can't be called that. There's no doubt in Georgie's tiny little mind of that.