Don't worry, they're spying on journalists too

Yet another addition to the long list of reasons to mistrust this administration.

If you're upset about the probably that the government is spying on you, don't feel bad. They're spying on journalists too.

According to President Bush: 'We do not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval.'

According to ABC News: The Department of Justice says it secretly sought phone records and other documents of 3,501 people last year under a provision of the Patriot Act that does not require judicial oversight [empahsis mine]... Federal law enforcement sources say the National Security Letters are being used to obtain phone records of reporters at ABC News and elsewhere in an attempt to learn confidential sources who may have provided classified information in violation of the law.

Is what the Bush administration legal? For once, it might actually be. But it's telling that rather than cracking down on their own employees who are leaking information, they're going after the messenger (conveniently a part of the 'liberal media').

Nixon must be jealous.

Then again, maybe if this weren't far and away the least transparent, most unnecessarily secretive administration in history, none of this would be necessary.

Then again, if I were as guilty as them, I'd be secretive too.