This just shows how far GWB has moved to the left.

Who got hurt because of Watergate?

Who got hurt because of the Valerie Plame leak?

Who gets hurt when Cheney goes hunting? (couldn't resit)

Let the government govern.

This isn't Nixonesque. This is Clintonesque. Nixon was an amateur; Clinton was a pro.

The president has this authority legally. Elections do have consequences. If you are concerned with the effects of government, then you must convince a enough citizens to win the election. Since Mr. Bush did convince the people to elect him, he has the right to exercise the perogatives of government.

If reporters were provided classified national security information by people breaking the law, I say go get them...put a stop to it.

Leak classified information, go to jail. That's what the left says, anyways.

President Bush and NSA don't worry me one bit. But I can't say that about some judges . . . and you want judges as a final authority?

The real story is the news media falsely reporting that the records had been turned over...just another transparent attempt to discredit the Administration with FALSE REPORTING. Next tjhing you know the broadcast networks will start sabotaging presidential addresses to the nation.

There is nothing here to complain about. Your protection as well as mine are at work here. If you are having a problem with what's transpired with phone records, then you must have something to hide. This is not our father's times. We are at risk. We need to trust our government to protect us. If you have a better idea how to intercept the information that will prevent further attacks against us, then PLEASE share it with all of us.
Thank you President Bush.

We haven't had a major attack in four years? Before 2001, how long had it been since we had a major terrorist attack on US soil?

The fact that no attack has occurred is not in thanks to the Bush administration's fascist tactics, it is just sheer dumb luck.

I'm stunned by all the people who are cheering on the government for spying on people who clearly have no links to terrorism.

Are you going to try to tell me that Al Qaeda has a cell made up of reporters from ABC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post?

Anyone can legally obtain phone records. It is not the same as listening to the actual conversation. You have no expectation of privacy in regard to your phone records especially when you are breaking the law.

Stop demagoging. Its such an old trick.

All the people whining about government abuses should keep in mind that your are whining at the wrong administration. In 1994 the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 was passed on voice vote of a Democratic Controlled House and Democratic Controlled Senate and signed into law by Democrat President Bill Clinton. The act mandated that the phone companies would cooperate with the government in providing information. The key phrase is: "enabling the government, pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, to access call-identifying information that is reasonably available to the carrier."

Note besides "court orders" you have the language of "other lawful authorization" which can easily be interpreted to be a letter, or any other instrument that somebody views as "lawful." For that matter "other lawful authorization" could easily be a request from an FBI agent.

So for all the liberals whining about Bush, I think its only fair that YOU ALSO whine about the Clinton Administration and their abuses of power...unless of course you excuse that kind of behavior when your guy is in power.

I was working for a major news network in the late 60's when Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned. I scored the first interview with him after he quit.

I asked "How can you let criminals like Miranda go ... knowing they're guilty?" What he told me has stayed with me, through law school and three decades practicing media law.

"Don't worry about Miranda. He'll be back. Worry about yourself. What would you do if you're hauled off to a police station, kept overnight, not allowed to call a lawyer or tell anybody where you're at. Worry about yourself. That's what that decision is REALLY about." He was right, Miranda managed to get himself killed a few years later.

Don't buy the "only terrorists have something to fear" argument. We ALL have much to fear when a free press, the basic First Freedom, is scared to report on what our government is doing. Does anyone actually think we're better off not knowing what our government is doing in our name?

Yeah, some probably do.

For those, remember, the next President will likely be a Democrat. The precedent to wiretap, search, control has now been set. Would your answer be different if Hillary was running the US Government?

Danny knows "it is sheer dumb luck?"

Cool, Danny.

What's the Saturday Powerball?

He who gives up freedom to acquire security deserves neither.

I would rather die than give the FBI power to sieze library records.

I would rather die than give the FBI power to sieze our personal freedoms.

I would rather die than give the FBI power to conduct secert searches.

I would rather die than give the NSA power to keep my phone records.

I would rather die fighting than give into some mythical creature.

I would rather die than give the US Gov. power to sieze the sick's medicene.

I would rather die than give the FBI power to sieze our free speach.

Be cause I could not live with myself knowing all those soliders who fallen before me died for nothing.

Good!! Find them, try them, convict them and confine them..

Apparently the United States no longer believes in the "First Amendment of the United States Constitution." Whats next? Are they going to attach GPS bracelets on everyone? Hello George Orwell's 1984.

With Eschelon, does it really matter? We were done in a long time ago... how do we get out?

How can we fix it? Especially with the disunity we have? Left/Right/Religious/Nonreligious/Racial/Economic ideology/Social ideology/Moral equivalence...

A 2 party system gives us two bones, a multi-party system gives us dillusion to the point almost nobody would have voted for the winner.

Isn't "freedom of the press" one of the freedoms we are protecting from the terrorists, who our government tells us "hate freedom"? Well it seems to me that the administration is doing far more damage to the freedom of the press than the terrorists have. The constitution also requires that we citizens be protected from unwarrented search and seizure--we've all pretty much been searched when our phone records were seized.