Ok, so let me get this straight. Bush and Cheney are now so blatantly ignoring the United States Constitution and are so unloved in the poll ratings that even the NSA is distancing themselves from them?

And at the same time, General Michael Hayden, who headed the NSA domestic spying program, is now being nominated for CIA Director by these same two demagogues?

Is this unchecked administration really looking for terrorists in our homes? Or are they paranoid, looking for dissidents and detractors to their policies of lies and deceptions?

What about Osama-Been-Forgotten?

While this government spies into our bedrooms and kitchens, those responsible for 9-11 run free and unwatched.

This administration has been and still is committing the worst kind of war profiteering. By keeping us in fear and using the 3,000 lives of those who were murdered in the 9-11 terrorist attack, they suck in the oil money and leave us with four-dollar gas prices as they do business with the enemy.

Thumbing their noses at us and the families of those killed on Sept. 11, 2001, they prepare for more war and further sharing of wealth with their corporate base.

Meanwhile, the blatant war profiteering, use of miltary lives for profit, and political use of the National Guard, sickens even the war hawks of the armed forces.
Army Generals continue to gather in unison to denounce this administration.

This country has never undergone a military coup, but I'll be damned if I've ever seen a time and situation more ripe for it.

DOMESTIC SPYING UPDATE

Vice President Dick Cheney argued in the weeks after the September 11 attacks that the National Security Agency should intercept domestic telephone calls and e-mails without warrants as part of its war on terrorism, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
Cheney and his top legal adviser, David Addington, believed the Constitution permitted spy agencies to take such sweeping measures to defend the country, The newspaper said, citing two senior intelligence officials who spoke anonymously.
NSA lawyers opposed the move and insisted that any eavesdropping without warrants should be limited to communications into and out of the country, a position that ultimately prevailed, the Times said.
Gen. Michael Hayden, the director of the NSA at the time designed the eavesdropping program and is certain to face questions about it when he appears at a Senate hearing on his nomination as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Hayden persuaded wary NSA officers to accept the eavesdropping program and sold the White House on its limits, the Times said.
The newspaper said accounts by the two intelligence officials, as well as others it interviewed, placed Hayden as the man in the middle as President George W. Bush demanded that intelligence agencies act to prevent more attacks.
While intelligence agency lawyers and officials were concerned with avoiding accusations of spying on Americans, Cheney and Addington thought eavesdropping without warrants "could be done and should be done" if people suspected of links to Al Qaeda made calls inside the United States, one of the intelligence officials told the Times.
Another official described the debate as "very healthy," with Cheney's staff "pushing and pushing, and it was up to the NSA lawyers to draw a line and say absolutely not."
Cheney's spokeswoman, Lee Anne McBride, declined to discuss the deliberations about the classified program and said: "As the administration, including the vice president, has said, this is terrorist surveillance, not domestic surveillance ... " the Times reported.
People speaking for the NSA and for Hayden also declined to comment, the newspaper said.