AlterNet: Bush: Breaking the Law, Again and Again

Treasury and CIA peeking at millions of American banking records, seems to me, is a much bigger threat to our constitution than the bozos who were arrested for thought crimes in Florida.

Good lord, this is pathetic!

AlterNet: Bush: Breaking the Law, Again and Again:

"Yes, I know, seven people were arrested -- five Americans -- in a strange thought-crime plot to bomb the Sears Tower.
In other news, the Bush administration has apparently been doing more illegal domestic surveillance, this time of banking records.

Is it a coincidence that news of the first supposed terra-folks located within the United States since the attacks of 2001 would come on the same day as this damning story?

Perhaps, but this is after all an administration that writes its own news and disseminates it. While it is easy to dismiss such questioning as simply cynicism, the reality is far too ugly to ignore -- namely, that people who have already violated Federal and international law and repeatedly lied despite evidence contrary to their assertions would abuse their powers yet again for such an obvious and naked ploy. "