Gotta love those Dems, they can't even get their stories straight. In this case, Nancy Pelosi and Bob Graham were both at some meeting with other Senators so that Dick Cheney could tell them about some anti-terror measures they were putting under the purview of the NSA. This is all directly related to the big media story about how the administration told the NSA to spy on Americans. Anyway, in recounting the media, Graham is now saying say Cheney offered only a very unspecific mention of some new technology the NSA was going to use, whereas Pelosi says he was very specific about what the NSA was going to do, and that she expressed strong reservations. Both stories cannot be true, so one or both of these Senators is shading the truth to hurt the administration. How unusual.

And jsut so you know, this new NSA stuff is probably not illegal. All the Constitution says is that we are protected against unreasonable search and seizure, but wiretapping people whom we have suspicion of helping terrorists or being terrorists themselves is not unreasonable at all. In fact it would unreasonable to say that the NSA cannot investigate these people. All this has done, liek the Patriot Act, is allow the government to use the same tools for investigating suspected terrorists as criminals. We wiretap mobsters and no one seems to have a problem. Why then is it such a bad thing to wiretap someone who has expressed interest in blowing up the White House or killing Americans in some other way? The media doesn't want people to realize that this isn't some huge new invasion of privacy, it's just extending criminal investigation tools to terror investigations.

Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that Bush decided to do things the old way, and wait for warrants to filter throught the court before wiretapping a suspected terrorist. And let's say that in the interim, this terrorists blows up a building and kills a bunch of Americans. When the story gets out that we suspected he was bad, but the administration didn't do anything because they didn't have a warrant yet, the left will be up in arms bashing Bush for letting Americans die and not letting our intelligence services do their jobs. The man can't win, so instead of doing what he needs to do to improve poll numbers, he does what he thinks is right.

Most of the media is also neglecting to mention that the leak that allowed the NSA wiretaps to come to light is highly illegal, and far more likely to damage our national security than the Plame leak. When is the media going to start calling for the arrest of all the CIA officials (or whomever) that leaked this secret and classified information? The CIA has been leaking like a sieve, and every leak seems calculated to hurt the administration, and every leak has been highly illegal and done with the full cooperation of the media. The Plame leak, on the other hand, was jumped all over as a sign that the administration can't keep a secret. WHat a bunch of freaking hypocrites.