Gee, had the Democrats been harping on this issue for the past several years, as I'd been suggesting, the climate would be ripe to respond to these incredibly dangerous comments from this senior Bush official:
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.Get that? The Republicans think that privacy means the government and private industry have the right to know everything about you, so long as they don't share that information with anyone other than the government and private industry. So privacy now means your secrets are safer from your neighbor, but not Big Brother or every corporation in America.
Sick, just sick. And there isn't a damn thing the Democrats plan to do about it, other than give Verizon and AT&T immunity for conspiring with the government to illegally violate your privacy.
