it seems like everything in the news recently is revolving around the scandals, lies and law-breaking committed but the current administration. the latest added to the list appeared in the nytimes yesterday which discusses how the bush administration planned illegal domestic spying within weeks of taking office in 2001. bush also wants to block all lawsuits against telecom corporations (your phone company) placed against them for aiding the NSA’s warrantless eavesdropping program. their argument for domestic eavesdropping has been that it’s to aid in the supposed ‘war on terror’ (the reason for every law that’s broken nowadays by the administration). however, the fact that they planned domestic spying well before 9/11 and the fight against terrorism began just adds considerable fuel to conspiracy theories’ fires and completely discredits the current administration, if they had any credibility left to begin with.
For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies from lawsuits for aiding the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program.
But the battle is really about something much bigger. At stake is the federal government’s extensive but uneasy partnership with industry to conduct a wide range of secret surveillance operations in fighting terrorism and crime.
you should be appalled as this is huge news (although it’s much of the status quo with everything that’s been happening lately). now’s definitely not the time to be indifferent or apathetic about politics or what the government is doing as things won’t change on their own!