We may be witnessing why the liberal attacks on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs was the epitome of political suicide. Word from ABC News about a high threat level in Germany for a possible terrorist attack on US interests there, possibly using commercial aircraft again, can only be coming from our surveillance of communications […]

President Bush has proposed new parameters for our national security which expand, not restrict as some dems would prefer, the surveillance of potential terrorist risks. The changes in some cases are simple common sense: Currently, under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, individuals have to be associated with a foreign terrorism suspect or a foreign […]

Update: President Bush, one of the few Reps out there with a spine, did as I suspected and is backing Gonzales. And the liberal media and Dems are going to remain distracted (and therefore off balance) on this lame AG shake up – opening opportunities for Reps to show some leadership on serious issues – […]

I posted this as comment on the post below, but it bears repeating at the top of the page here. The row being made over the 8 AGs and Gonzales is a classic PR move to establish a context to buffer future, pending bad news. We all know there have been ongoing investigations into the […]

Hopefully the media and the Congress are done making fools of themselves on the terrorist surveillance arrangement between the NSA and the FIS Court. The administration has allowed a select number in Congress to see the details of the court order which made the 45 day process of renewing the terrorist surveillance program by the […]

The notorious Glenn Greenwald, who will jump to a misconclusion like a penguin takes to cold water, is finally realizing that all his celebrations regarding the NSA terrorist surveillance program were all for naught: Maybe Bush didn’t back down on wiretaps Stop celebrating — it’s not yet clear whether the administration really intends to start […]

Jeff over at Protein Wisdom went through the Q&A transcripts after the announcement of the new order from the FIS Court and there are numerous statements that the spying continues unabated: QUESTION: What has changed here? What has changed that allows you now allows the FISA court to approve this on whatever basis? SENIOR DEPARTMENT […]

You got to love how naive or plainly embarrassed the news media must be at the news the FIS Court has given the administration a ‘blank check’ warrant to continue their program of listening in on terrorists communications which have one end here in the US. For a reminder here is the letter from AG […]

I was wondering how the democrats were going to try and save face on the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) which is key to our nation’s security. It seems the classic Washington DC bait in switch is being used. I posted extensively on the TSP here since the NY Times blatantly misreported on the program […]

Democrats have stepped into it big time. We need to make sure the NSA’s program of monitoring known terrorists overseas and passing any leads on possible terrorists in the US be continued. And now the Democrats are going to have to explain why it was OK to monitor Princess Di, but it is not important […]