Bum's Bluff

Now THIS is a reason to defeat the nomination of Hayden

A couple days ago, I had chosen not to jump on the anti-Hayden bandwagon based on his not too bright discussion of the 4th Amendment. We are too nitpicky when we expect poiltical leaders and top level bureaucrats to know everything there is to know about constitutional law. I still stand by that assertion - the greatest of nominees are still going to be imperfect people and we should be tolerant of that.

The new revelation of the NSA requesting and receiving phone records on tens of millions of Americans on an ongoing basis since September 11, 2001 if different. This would have been a policy carried out under the direct supervision of General Hayden. Thus it would have received his blessing and approval. As this program is the quintessential Big Brother tactic of an apparently paranoid Nixonian administration, the last thing we need is for the director of that policy to become the director of an even larger and more influential spy agency.

I am a cynic at heart when it comes to conspiracy theories -- but this revelation just plain scares me. Time permitting, I will elaborate on my next post.

posted by Walton @ 1:32 PM