Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses

[Ichingcarpenter]

No matter how corrupt and sloppy the establishment press becomes, they always find a way to go lower. Time Magazine has just published what it purports to be a news article by Massimo Calabresi claiming that "nobody cares" about the countless abuses of spying powers by the Bush administration; that "Americans are ready to trade diminished privacy, and protection from search and seizure, in exchange for the promise of increased protection of their physical security"; and that the case against unchecked government surveillance powers "hasn't convinced the people." Not a single fact -- not one -- is cited to support these sweeping, false opinions.

Worse still -- way worse -- this "news article" decrees the Bush administration to be completely innocent, even well-motivated, even in those instances where technical, irrelevant lawbreaking has been found, as it proclaims:

In all the examples of diminished civil liberties, there are few, if any, where the motivating factor was something other than law and order or national security.

Does Calabresi or his Time editors have the slightest idea how secret, illegal spying powers have been used, towards what ends they've been employed and with what motives? No, they have absolutely no idea. Not even members of Congressional Intelligence Committees know because the Bush administration has kept all of that concealed. So Time just makes up facts to defend the Bush administration with wholly baseless statements that one would expect to come pouring out of the mouths only of Dana Perino and Bill Kristol -- the "motivating factor" for secret, illegal spying was nothing "other than law and order or national security."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/17/time/index.html

[L. Coyote]

1. It is obvious on its face, I'd say. Like the Patriot Act, Kucinich voterd NO on FISA Amendments Act

and the Dems passed it out of the House. It is a reasonable thing to say, sadly so.

Everyone enjoyed the "victory" of no telecom immunity as liberty shrunk one more step.
It is called "the march of fascism" for a reason. It is built step by step, law by law.