The Bush Administration is trying to convince Congress and the rest of us that it needs permanent permission to spy on on us, and that the telecom industry should have retroactive protection from liability for their actions in helping the gov’t spy on us. How are they trying to convince us of that this is necessary? In this story the sales pitch goes like this: Everything the government and the telecom companies are doing and have done is legal now and always has been, but we have to pass this new law so we can make sure everything the government and the telecom companies are doing and have done is legal now and always has been.
Right.
p.s.: I see that I called yesterday “black tuesday.” It was obviously Thursday. Oops.
