RATR Terror Alert. REMAIN CALM.

And now it's time for everyone's favorite game, lying or stuipd!

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Ladies and Gentlemen – the terrorist issue is a lot worse than we thought. According to President Bush today:

"Our intelligence activities strictly target al-Qaeda and their known affiliates. We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans."

Now it has been revealed that phone companies have provided the NSA with 10’s of millions of phone records in the past few years, and this of course means, by the president’s own words, these 10’s of millions of people are al-Qaeda affiliates.

Perhaps as much as one in every three Americans.

It could be your father. Your neighbor. That weird guy you peered over his newspaper at you on the subway. Perhaps your pre-school aged children. It could be...me.

Strangely, the terror alert level that scrolls across the bottom of my Fox News screen every 11 seconds has no changed. Hmmm…they must be in on it too.

Bush went on to make the following statement:

“The government does not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval.”

I was not aware of this. Apparently the debate we’ve been having in this country about whether or not the president can break the law to allows domestic surveillance without court approval is completely fabricated.

Of course the president isn’t breaking the law, because again, “the government does not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval.” Therefore, Bush has been defending warrantless wiretapping for no reason at all, by saying things like, “the FISA law was written in 1978. We're having this discussion in 2006. It's a different world.”

And, on top of all this? We may NEVER find out whether or not Domestic spying without a warrant is illegal.

Why you ask? Because the NSA isn’t going to let the justice department have the clearance they need to investigate them.

I’ll rephrase.

The subject of the investigation isn’t letting the investigators investigate:

The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department
lawyers security clearance.

The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, or OPR, sent a fax Wednesday to Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey of New York saying it was closing its inquiry because without clearance it could not examine department lawyers' role in the program. The administration has vehemently defended the eavesdropping, saying the NSA's activities were narrowly targeted to intercept international calls and e-mails of Americans and others inside the U.S. with suspected ties to the al- Qaeda terror network.

Jack Cafferty on explains on CNN
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That would have been like OJ telling the LAPD that he was denying their request to investigate the murder of his wife.

The small government, get-the-feds-out-of-my-life Republicans have yet to comment...well, except for one.

This is Jonathan Turley, a well recognized expert on the subject of Constitutional Law, who is a regular guest on Fox News.
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