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This is a serious charge, and coming from a respecatable place like Newsweek
makes it even more so. Is the President going for a power grab? Does he want to be a dictator?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10536559/site/newsweek/


More on the Bush power grab.

http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2005/12/19/287217.html


It's nothing new. Clinton did it too: This is from a few years ago: "If you made a phone call today or sent an e-mail to a friend, there's a good chance what you said or wrote was captured and screened by the country's largest intelligence agency. The top-secret Global Surveillance Network is called Echelon, and it's run by the National Security Agency."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/18/221452.shtml



"But out of the gobbledygook, comes a very clear thing: [unclear] you can’t trust the government; you can’t believe what they say; and you can’t rely on their judgment; and the – the implicit infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing in America, is badly hurt by this, because it shows that people do things the President wants to do even though it’s wrong, and the President can be wrong.”-- White House aide H.R. Haldeman , June 14, 1971, responding to the publication of the Pentagon Papers in the New York Times the day before.
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002581.html


We all know it's been going on for years. So why the big fuss about it now? Is there something else going on? Is it just politics as usual?