The WaPo finds the nut - domestic spying underway BEFORE 9/11

i've been waiting for a major news outlet, ANY news outlet, to put 2 and 2 together and come up with the oh-so-obvious conclusion that the bush administration, no doubt like the clinton administration before it, has been spying on u.s. citizens for a very long time, and that 9/11 was a very useful event for ratcheting it all up several notches and convincing us that being under constant surveillance was only for our own good...

the wapo highlights this "well-duh" insight in paragraph 6 of a page 1 story in today's edition...

Nacchio's [Joseph P. Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications International] account, which places the NSA proposal at a meeting on Feb. 27, 2001, suggests that the Bush administration was seeking to enlist telecommunications firms in programs without court oversight before the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. The Sept. 11 attacks have been cited by the government as the main impetus for its warrantless surveillance efforts.

so...? where's the outcry...? where's the outrage...? where are the calls for resignation or impeachment...? where's congress...? oh, wait... congress is deliberating about whether to give telecom companies retroactive immunity to prosecution for anything illegal they might have done by allowing the government to spy on u.s. citizens... nice to know SOMEBODY'S out there looking out for our civil liberties and the united states constitution...

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