Insufficient Oversight

The technology exists to track and sort through every domestic and international phone call as they are switched through telephone or internet switching centers, and to search for key words or phrases in voice or digital communications. Unless tens of millions of Americans are in al-Qaeda sleeper cells, the administration’s name for its domestic spying — the “terrorist surveillance program” — is a bald-faced lie.

What assurances do we really have that BushCo isn’t listening in on the conversations or reading the emails of innocent folks like you and me? Just because they say they aren’t? Just like they say “We don’t torture?”

For the rightwingers that don’t get it and ask what do innocent Americans have to hide…

The NSA Database contains proof of:

Every call Bill O’Reilly made to Andrea Makris.

Every call Rush Limbaugh made while ‘doctor shopping.’

Every call made to and from the White House and/or Air Force One regarding Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson.

Every call made to and from - Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, Robert Ney, Mitchell Wade, Katherine Harris, ‘Scooter’ Libby, Stephen Hadley, Karl Rove… and the ‘connected’ network of partisans involved in so many Republican scandals.

We know the current administration doesn’t like people who leak info they’d rather keep secret to the wrong people, but you’ve got to consider that when this administration leaks information themselves, for strictly political reasons, those calls are undoubtedly also in that database. And if the calls themselves are actually being recorded… well, I think you get my drift.

If this is acceptable to you rightwingers, will you care when this information is accessible to a Democratic White House?

If any of you have been at all shocked by the scandals and the wiretapping and the other unsavory things that have been happening, you need to realize that what has been disclosed so far is only the tip of the iceberg.

Think about that. The NSA is on the line — all of them…