Trust us, we're spying on terrorists.

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the attorney general, claiming he could not disclose details of the program without tipping off the enemy, avoided saying anything about some of the most important questions the program raises: Whose calls are being monitored and why? How many Americans or legal visitors are being subject to the snooping, and how many of those have been found to be connected to terrorists? How long does each wiretap stay in place?

To those questions, the administration's response boils down to this: Trust us, we're spying on terrorists.

The answer is inadequate, particularly for an administration whose reservoir of trust with the American people is dangerously close to empty.

The administration hasn't provided a shred of evidence that existing legal authority to monitor Americans under the oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is insufficient to prevent terrorism. And even Gonzales admitted he could not give senators ``absolute assurance'' that no one other than people linked to terrorists are being monitored....

If Americans don't know whom to believe, they should remember that the Bush administration has been caught monitoring the activities of Quakers, anti-war student activists, environmentalists, animal-rights activists and even Catholic groups -- all in the name of the war on terror. The Constitution established checks and balances to prevent these kinds of abuses -- and it appears that Bush authorized the warrantless-spying program precisely to bypass constitutional safeguards.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/13810388.htm

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1. reservoir of trust with the American people is dangerously close to empty

I just don't understand how this is still going on! Why do we still have to put up with this assholes and their threats to attack Iran?

We have already been through this with Nixon. Bush does it again,has zero credibility but wants us to trust that he's spying illegally for the right reasons. We have proof he is spying on dissidents...:wtf:
This is just beyond stupid!!