Pot, Meet Kettle Part one thousand

As anyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows by now, the Demoricans (democrats in Congress and their lapdog RINOs) have been having a collective public coniption fit over President Bush's practice of spying on international communications with U.S. citizens with suspected Al Qaeda ties. But as is the case so often with our demo-buddies, they operate on short memories, and hope that the public is likewise memorically challenged. The lengths and depths that these clowns will go to undermine this nation's war effort, with assistance from their MSM lapdogs, is nothing short of breathtaking. Thus far, I could find nothing in the MSM of the inconvenient fact that Clinton did the same exact thing:

Clinton NSA Eavesdropped on U.S. Calls

During the 1990's under President Clinton, the National Security Agency monitored millions of private phone calls placed by U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries under a super secret program code-named Echelon.

On Friday, the New York Times suggested that the Bush administration has instituted "a major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices" when it "secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without [obtaining] court-approved warrants."

But in fact, the NSA had been monitoring private domestic telephone conversations on a much larger scale throughout the 1990s - all of it done without a court order, let alone a catalyst like the 9/11 attacks.

In February 2000, for instance, CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft introduced a report on the Clinton-era spy program by noting:

"If you made a phone call today or sent an e-mail to a friend, there's a good chance what you said or wrote was captured and screened by the country's largest intelligence agency. The top-secret Global Surveillance Network is called Echelon, and it's run by the National Security Agency."

NSA computers, said Kroft, "capture virtually every electronic conversation around the world."

But of course, just like with any other "scandal" that never was, until the unfortunate truth finally makes its rounds through the MSM, the Demoricans will continue to try to make hay while their sun shines. For to them, everything is a political football; nothing is sacred. National security be damned.

I have, at times, likened the Demoricans to Axis Sally or Tokyo Rose during World War II, who did their level best at the time to demoralize our troops and their mission. I realize now, however, that this was an unfair comparison. For all the damage that they did during that time, unlike today's Demoricans, Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally were unable to vote in Congress. Their damage was, in retrospect, negligible in light of our current elected officials who see the fact that we are at war, and that our troops remain in harm's way, as an opportunity for political advantage, without regard to the consequences of gaining that political advantage.

They are beyond shameless. They are traitors (Hugh may be afraid to say it, but I'm not) in every sense of the word. With the Demoricans in Congress and the Senate, who needs a Fifth Column?


(Filed under The Fifth Column, RINOs)