Bush Wants to Reassure Us Our Privacy is being Protected!

[SammyBlue]

Congress Demands Phone Records Answers

By LAURIE KELLMAN and DONNA CASSATA
Associated Press Writer
37 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a spy agency secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls to build a database of all calls within the country.

Facing mounting congressional criticism, President Bush sought to assure Americans that their civil liberties were "fiercely protected."

"The government does not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval," said Bush, without confirming the program of the National Security Agency. "We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans."

The disclosure, reported in USA Today, could complicate Bush's bid to win confirmation of former National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden as CIA director. It also reignited concerns about privacy rights and touched off questions about the legal underpinnings for the government's actions and the diligence of the Republican-controlled Congress' oversight of a GOP administration.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060511/ap_on_go_pr_wh/nsa_phone_records_23

Well, give me a fucking break, shitbag!!! You haven't met a right you don't wipe your ass with!

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. "fiercely protected"

It's phrases like this, which I'm sure come straight from Karl Rove's Lexicon of Reassuring Platitudes, that really make me sick. What this White House seems not to care about is the fact that these words are being recorded for history, and if by some miracle we escape this dangerous period of our country's existence, they will be seen as abject and complete lies. Every single thing George Bush says is a lie. I don't even know why I'm shocked anymore.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1094932

[Skidmore]

2. That's like Hannibal Lector reassuring you that

he doesn't have designs on your liver because he's out of fava beans and Chianti.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Hey Bush (since you're reading this :-)

EAT ME !

[FloridaPat]

4. Fiercely protected from oversight from congress, the MSM,

your lawyer, and the ALCU. And anyone else who wants to put these people in jail