[RetiredArmy]

What it means is, is that he is having to respond to everything that he is doing. If you have to explain it each time, then something is wrong. Obviously, some are not getting his message. This domestic spying crap bothers me. If the imperial federal government can arbitrarily point to you and say, "he is a spy" then what stops the government from doing anything else? Each and every time the government gets away with something that we think is wrong, it becomes precedent and they continue to do it because they got away with it before. This is more big brother, more big government. We have laws for a purpose. So, now we are just going around the ones they deem inappropriate. This bothers the hell out of me.

[stocksthatgoup]

The are monitors and checks and balances in this program

[kevkrom]

This domestic spying crap bothers me. If the imperial federal government can arbitrarily point to you and say, "he is a spy" then what stops the government from doing anything else?

That's a gross mischaracterization of what's going on. There are specific requirements for getting one of these surveillance taps (basically, being in contact with known or suspected terrorist elements), and each one is periodically reviewed to ensure that the reasons are still legit. Even with the expanded authority they're working under, they can't bug you "just because" -- they still need to have a solid reason for initiating surveillance.

[Coop]

I think you need to read up on this "spy" thing a bit more.

[A CA Guy]

It's happened all through history in war, even during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln imprisoned newspaper editors and other dissenters against his policies. In addition, he suspended the oldest right of English-speaking peoples, habeas corpus. "The Constitution," Lincoln explained, "is not a suicide pact."

Sometimes we can't operate like we are not at war when we are.

As far as why questions get repeated, like the WMD one. That is the tool the left uses and being the press is mostly left, that is their enabling Democrats with talking points.
Bush can answer a thousand times and a stupid liberal will still bring up the same question.