God forbid we should know that our government is spying on us

[UPDATE AND BUMP]

the fear-mongering and media intimidation takes on a higher level of stridency...

Tony Snow: [T]he New York Times and other news organizations ought to think long and hard about whether a public’s right to know in some cases might override somebody’s right to live, and whether in fact the publications of these could place in jeopardy the safety of fellow Americans.

disgusting, and that dank, putrid odor wafting from the quote is the distinctive smell of karl rove...

i don't care how many times george, dick, or anyone else in the robotized talking-points choir say we shouldn't know what our government is doing, they're wrong... for one thing, the surveillance of money transfers has been common knowledge for a long time and, even then, it's not like terrorists couldn't figure it out for themselves (and probably DID years ago)... tracking bank accounts and money flow was one of the first things the government announced it would do following 9/11... but that still misses the point... attempting to intimidate the media into keeping information - important information - from the american people violates every principle on which this country was founded...

President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a program to secretly monitor the financial transactions of suspected terrorists. "The disclosure of this program is disgraceful," he said.

"For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America," Bush said, jabbing his finger for emphasis. He said the disclosure of the program "makes it harder to win this war on terror."

engendering fear in the populace and waging an endless war on terror in order to continue to have the president serving in the all-powerful position of commander-in-chief has become thin cover for the creation of a fascist state...

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