Freedom or monarchy is not a choice

Today's news to make you retch is Bush's latest attempt to defend his illegal domestic survelliance program. He calls it limited. Right, limited to any American who dares disagree with his policies. If he really was only collecting information on actual known AQ suspects instead of this wide trawling internet phishing expedition, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I mean how legal can a program be when they couldn't even get John Ashcroft to sign off on it - even though they were browbeating to countermand his underling while he was in a hospital bed?

Meanwhile, John at Americablog looks for ways we're safer. He doesn't really find any. And Digby remarks on the self-perceived divine right of Republicans and how chest thumping supporters of the rule of law, turned into piddling cowards.