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Thanks to a newspaper "scoop" last week, America is a safer place today for terrorists. Last Thursday the New York Times in a 3,600-word article exposed a top-secret program President Bush ordered shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. The National Security Agency captures and turns over to counter-terrorist analysts phone calls and e-mails of countless U.S. and foreign citizens. The terrorist agents, who read the newspapers, will now change their ways and blind our intelligence agents. The damage to American safety ranks with the worst intelligence breaches of all time. "It is a shameful act for someone to disclose this...

To the surprise of perhaps no one, Senators Arlen Specter and John McCain have jumped on this morning's reports of NSA spying within the United States as another opportunity to grab the limelight.Report of NSA Spying Prompts Call for Probe (AP) Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter put the Bush administration on notice Friday that his panel would hold hearings into a report that the National Security Agency eavesdropped without warrants on people inside the United States. "There is no doubt that this is inappropriate," said Specter, R-Pa., calling hearings early next year "a very, very high priority." He wasn't...