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If someone leaked this to try and block Hayden's confirmation as DCI then it further illustrates how out of touch they are with real America, because 7 of 10 Americans don't mind this sort of thing, and if this is the democrats reason for opposing his nomination, there will be more people calling from democrat States telling their Senators "you better confirm this guy" then there will be people calling from Republican States telling their Senators "you better sink this guy". Most Americans have no problem with this kind of program, and the media knows it which is why largely they have laid off the NSA wiretapping thing because it's been made clear most Americans have no problem with it, as shown by the lib media's own polls, which couldn't gin up much opposition to the program.

How convenient that his comes out right before Hayden goes in front of Congress for his confirmation hearings. Someone did this to screw him over...guaranteed.

That may be true, but in my opinion the Democrats know that someone, Feingold for sure and even Republicans will bring up the Terrorist Surveillance Program during the General Hayden hearings. They also know that they will be beaten severely over this issue as the American public is in favor of this program by 3:1 or maybe it's 4:1 (I don't remember).

This gives them a diversion or more properly a segue into something that sounds icky at least and illegal at best. I'd bet most people think their phone logs are private when they simply are not. We need to keep in mind that the vast majority of the American public doesn't delve deeply into an issue like this. They simply remember in November that something that sounds like 1984 was going on back in May.

I don't think it's designed to derail Hayden, it's designed to give them an issue concerning privacy. They have milked the abortion "privacy" issue to the point it doesn't work for them anymore and they lost their first attempt at replacing that issue with the NSA Spying bull-o-knee. This is their second attempt and if Tony Snow makes a big deal out of this in the W/H press briefing today, the administration can smack this one out of the ballpark quickly.