Domestic Spying Not Making Us Safer

WaPo.

Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly all of them as potential suspects after hearing nothing pertinent to a terrorist threat, according to accounts from current and former government officials and private-sector sources with knowledge of the technologies in use.

How much is nearly all of them?

Fewer than 10 U.S. citizens or residents a year, according to an authoritative account, have aroused enough suspicion during warrantless eavesdropping to justify interception of their domestic calls, as well. That step still requires a warrant from a federal judge, for which the government must supply evidence of probable cause.

The fact that Bush has sidestepped federal law means that he is trying to hide something, or he was just too lazy to comply with the law. Both of these are grounds for impeachment. Imagine if you did not pay taxes and your defense was that you should not have to because paying your taxes was getting in the way of the rest of your life. Apparently this is how Bush thinks.