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Privacy A Concern, but So Are Leaks

By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
May 12, 2006

Americans should be more worried about who's leaking sensitive national security information than they should be about the National Security Agency monitoring records of telephone calls, some Republicans are saying.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Thursday said the NSA's telephone-call data mining program is "legal and lawful -- privacy is protected," he said.

"If al Qaeda is involved, we're going after them, and we're going after them aggressively," Frist said in an interview with Fox News's Neil Kavuto.

Sen Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) rejected the uproar provoked by the USA Today report. "This is nuts," he was quoted as saying on Thursday. "We are in a war, and we've got to collect intelligence on enemy, and you can't tell the enemy in advance how you're going to do it."

President Bush, defending his efforts to keep America safe, walked up to the microphones on Thursday and told the nation, "Every time sensitive intelligence is leaked, it hurts our ability to defeat this enemy. Our most important job is to protect the American people from another attack, and we will do so within the laws of our country."

The president insisted that the NSA is not "mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans. Our efforts are focused on links to al-Qaeda and their known affiliates. So far we've been very successful in preventing another attack on our soil," he added.

Talk about a Freudian slip.. the first time I read this, I though Bush had said "....attack on our soul," which I wouldn't put past him. Still, the jokes write themselves with these quotes, all of which need to be displayed in huge print on all of the campaign literature this year.

It is interesting to note that by Bush's definition, Bill Clinton was a great President and he is a complete screw up. It looks like only 29% who disagree with that.