Police State

At some point, probably after the November elections, we're finally going to have to take away the Administration and Congressional Republicans "Get out to jail free" card called the 9/11-Terrorist Excuse that gets hauled out at every revelation of criminal, malfeasance, misfeasance and just plain asshole behavior that these guys get caught at. Case in point: the massive intrusion into domestic privacy by the NSA and our phone records.

Protect the homefront, my ass.

According to Josh Marshall...

If that's true, then I think we can set aside any pretense that administration policy on all manner of electronic surveillance isn't being brought to bear on political opponents, media critics, the press, everybody.