The problem, folks, is that the government has broken the law. Get it?

I'm always staggered when people who claim to uphold the "values of America" willingly and joyfully allow their government to violate those values. What's your problem with the Constitution? Take another look: Fourth Amendment. Please.

Change your phone service to Qwest.

I think that this is very good news. Something has to be done to investigate the main-stream media as the MSM has obviously declared war against the President in regards to the war on terror and and the liberation of Iraq. It is outrageous how they are working to leak classified information and to undermine our security at every turn with their reporting. It is also outrageous how they fabricate stories against the President or in a timely fashion recycle old stories as if they were new. I personally no longer trust the MSM at all and feel extremely threatened by their agenda.

I'm appalled that so many of you think this is a good development, that journalists should be gagged. I just can't wrap my head around why anyone would want their own government to have this kind of crazy power over their citizenry. Especially a government led by a man who considers his greatest accomplishment in office catching a fish.

You guys in the press have been sucking up to this president from the very beginning. You reported his lies, you bought the B.S., and you did it all for access and so you could get invited to the right parties, and so he could towel-snap you and give you stupid nicknames.

And where did it get you? Monitored by the NSA.

Maybe if you'd done your job from the beginning, we wouldn't be living in a fascist state run by a madman right now. But no....it was more important that Al Gore was stiff and John Kerry had no charisma. You wanted to drink beer with this guy? Fine. Drink your beer with him. But don't start crying now about your rights being violated.

i cant wait till the democrats get back in power and start cracking down and tracking all the rightwing thugs and some of the commenters found here. some people are so dumb and shortsighted and have ZERO understanding of the rule of law, the constitution, and civil rights.

Amendment I - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression.
Congress shall make no law... or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press....

I am tired of thae news media leaking secret information in order to hurt PREDIDENT BUSH. I would prosucute the news media leakers for treason like LINCOLN did. We are at WAR with a enemy who whants to take over the world by force or kill all of us

This has to be one of the most frightening issues of our time. I as a citizen deserve to know what the moral construction of our government. The press gave us information such as immoral and unappropriately un-American torture prisons; obtaining this information and releasing is Patriotic, because it goes against what we believe is right. "Our govt should be afraid of its people", not the other way around.

Will mainstream media FINALLY fight back against this fascist regime? It's almost too late now.

BTW, with all the spying on Americans taking place, has anyone seen Osama?

i don't what is scarier, the article or the responses in this thread. some of these responses smack of the very worst kind of authoritarian fascism. these people talk just like the communist party hacks i've met in cuba or the old soviet union... and they call themselves patriots. it's disgusting.

I think that this is very good news. Something has to be done to investigate the main-stream media as the MSM has obviously declared war against the President in regards to the war on terror and and the liberation of Iraq. It is outrageous how they are working to leak classified information and to undermine our security at every turn with their reporting. It is also outrageous how they fabricate stories against the President or in a timely fashion recycle old stories as if they were new. I personally no longer trust the MSM at all and feel extremely threatened by their agenda.

You commit treason and expose classified national securtiy information - the goverment is going to come after you - as they should.

Tom,

Bush and Cheney are committing illegal acts. They shouldn't be protected. It's morally right for these "leakers" to get all the information out......

And please no one needs to be shot.

My .02

-Mike

You do realize people are being paid by the Bush administration to attack the press publically on comment pages like this. I personally was offered a job doing it.
Look at the similarities in the comments."Aid the enemy" "leaking security" ABC is simply telling it's viewers what it's ELECTED GOVERNMENT is doing with it's money-destroying this country's power in the eyes of the world!

I want to know what my government is doing. I want to have some measure of control over my life. I am tired of living in the constant fear this administration has subjected us to in the name of patriotism.
Who are these jackasses who think the press is giving aid to the enemy. What blind nonsense.

"Welcome to the KGB"

...and the ignorant children turning in their parents for crimes against the state.

Gone are the days of the patriot who spoke, "Give me liberty or give me death." Now we have Neil Cavuto: "[C]ollecting our phone records" is better than "collecting our remains."

If you don't believe in the US Constitution, get the out of here. If you don't support the Bill of Rights, then YOU are Anti-American. Go move to Russia, Cuba, or China; move anywhere but get the hell out of my country. The only reason our soldiers are dying in this war is because the people that you degenerates voted into office sent them off to fight for someone else. Own up to your mistakes and quit trying to trade my liberty for your false sense of security.

Might as well start calling Bush "Dear Leader" as well as addressing each other as 'comrade' and while we're at it let's change the name of the CIA to KGB and start holding May Day parades where we show off our shiny tanks and missiles. That's where we are headed folks, I mean 'comrades'

Ok Tommy Boy, shall we start with Dick Cheney and Robert Novak?

When the government itself breaks the law and hides behind the veil of secrecy - who will stand up and hold them accountable to the rule of law? An elected government is not royalty nor infallible - a true democracy, the people, keeps its government in line with the law. The news media "broke the law" when they published the classified Pentagon papers back in the 70's - and when the activities of Nixon's "plumbers" were exposed. A lot of those same convicted criminals are back at it, running through the halls of power today. Since the American people seem unable and unwilling to throw these bums out of office, it lies with the media to report on the truth and not allow the government to break the law and gut this country. Stand up to power, folks!

"Fascism would be better described as corporatism, since it is marriage between the state and business" - Benito Mussolini