I still fear the pushback we've been seeing from the administration over the past few months, has come a little too late... but it can't hurt. I just wished they had been doing it all along, and not tried to be the bigger people by ignoring the most insane and unprecedented attacks we've been hearing from the left for a number of years now.

Anyway, I like how the President has been handling the NSA situation, except I think he could come out harder personally going after Dems who've made ridiculous attacks on him over the policy. But this today from the AP via Yahoo! News, is great:

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is opening a campaign to push back against criticism of its domestic spying program, ahead of congressional hearings into whether President Bush has the legal authority to eavesdrop on Americans.

President Bush will visit the ultra-secret National Security Agency on Wednesday, underscoring his claim that he has the constitutional authority to let intelligence officials listen in on international phone calls of Americans with suspected ties to terrorists.

What a slap in the face to these libs and their media who thought they were really going somewhere on their most recent of contrived "scandals".

Anyway, it would seem that all Bush has for these crybabies is a box of tissues and a promise that we'll keep listening in on communications with suspected terrorists.

(I know the lefties have gone wild with the Bush/upside down phone pics, but come on... it is pretty funny)
Another interesting side point to this is that despite the steady drumbeat of the phrase "domestic spying" from the media and the left, it's not accurate. For the millionth time libs, these are communications between suspected terrorists abroad, and people in the U.S., not conversations between you and your grandmother. Cheney did a great job of explaining it at the Manhattan institute the other day, and Michelle Malkin has a partial transcription in her post on the matter. I specifically liked:

Let me emphasize that, because you frequently hear this called a "domestic surveillance program." It is not. We are talking about international communications, one end of which we have reason to believe is related to al Qaeda or to terrorist networks affilated with al Qaeda. It's hard to think of any category of information that could be more important to the safety of the United States than international communications, one end of which we have reason to believe is related to al Qaeda...this program is critical to the national security of the United States.

Exactly.

It should be noted that they continue the "domestic" language in this article, as well as the URL which is:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_domestic_spying_2
And I doubt they'll stop anytime soon.

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