Courtesy of Protein Wisdom:

A bit of perspective, from the Weekly Standard‘s “Scrapbook,” Jan 2, 2006:

As The Scrapbook enjoyed an afternoon walk down Washington’s M Street last week, it passed an array of newspaper vending machines, for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, among others. A scan of the headlines found the words “Domestic Spying” on all the front-page headlines. This was the artful shorthand America’s top editors came up with to describe the president’s decision, after 9/11, to intercept calls “from outside the country to in the country, or vice versa,” when one of the parties to a call was someone with known ties to al Qaeda or its affiliates-without the benefit of a court warrant.

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