Analogy for the technical degree with which Bush should talk about spying

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Bush's argument has been that it would give away the store to talk about what he and the NSA are actually doing. yet we know that any terrorist has to expect that he or she would be spied upon. NSA can do it freely in foreign jurisdictions and can do it with probable cause and warrants in the United States.

We can guess he doesn't want to admit that he's using data-mining through telecommunications switches that is capturing, like a firehose, all kinds of information. But he *could* talk about the basic concepts of what they are doing, without getting specific about what kinds of servers the data is being housed on, HOW the servers communicate with each other, WHERE they are housed, and WHAT software is running.

It's like Microsoft talking about Windows. You don't have to know the code to understand the concept of what Windows is, nor understand the hardware Windows is running on for someone to explain to you, basically, the purpose.

So it's baloney for him to say that he can't talk about it. Yes, he could. He just doesn't want to.

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Bush would have people believe that understanding what is really going on cannot be told. The argument is specious.