I kid you not, but some one is linking a fictional movie about the NSA and the Vietnam period to suggest the FISA-NSA imbroglio is real

Several years ago, officials at the National Security Agency sought to reassure taxpayers that the agency had long since repudiated its Vietnam-era spying on US citizens.

They insisted that the movie ”Enemy of the State,” which portrayed the NSA as using its formidable technology to track and eavesdrop on Americans, was the stuff of Hollywood fantasy.

Now the NSA stands accused of abetting the White House in what civil liberties activists and others describe as a frontal assault on the constitutional right to privacy.

Just yesterday I wrote how this entire non issue was being fueled by paranoid conspiracy theories derived from decades of Hollywood fantasies:

The entire country, ignorant of intelligence gathering and FISA processes (as was I when this started), but gorged on spy movies, the TV series 24 and decades of conspiracy theories about corrupt government leaders, lept to the conclusion that Bush is ’spying’ on Americans.

I had no idea the left would admit fictional stories where the root of their concerns.

UPDATE:

Major C writes clearly and correctly on this issue to Powerline

The more important part of this exposure, to me, is still to come. That is, do the candidates who wish to replace President Bush support the idea that we should use all legal means necessary to find out what the terrorists are doing to kill our families, and that those programs should have their constitutionality worked out behind closed doors with the advice and consent of the Congress; or do the candidates support the idea that there are inherent rights that terrorists hold, even as they try to kill us, and that newspapers have the right to notify them of programs that may interfere with those rights, regardless of the legality of that program.

Amen brother.