I could have also titled this post:
President Bush is a criminal; oops, the NSA might be logging my keystrokes.
President Bush uses the National Security Agency to spy on Americans (detailed here) -- without warrants, no less -- and is clearly a criminal.
Where's this rubber hit the road with extra burnout for me?
Maybe I was the one being spied on.
I'm a skeptic about life in general and things like conspiracy theories in general, hence the name of my blog.
But this is different. See my concerns below the fold.
I participated in antiwar rallies in two cities in 2003 -- Dallas, where I live, in February, and Los Angeles, in the week of the invasion, in March while on vacation.
There's strike one against me.
I may (or may not) have e-mailed John Bolton in his position as Undersecretary of State, via an action alert by the ACLU or some other organization to which I belong. If I did, there's strike two.
In 1991, after Lithuania declared its independence from the disnintegrating Soviet Union the year before, I wrote a strong letter to President George H.W. Bush, chiding him for the United States not being the first, or even the second, country to officially recognize Lithuania. In that letter, I even went so far as to call him a "son of a bitch." (True, we had never officially recognized the 1940 Soviet takeover, but Bush still was quite tardy on officially recognizing the country's de facto, not de jure, independence.)
Who knows what federal intelligence files copies of that letter may still occupy? If they're still out there, that's a possible strike three.
So, in other words, I may have been spied upon.
I'm pissed.
I agree with Steve Clemons. Make this information public.
On the "relax" side, I haven't made any international phone calls other than to Parks Canada for information about Banff; ditto on international e-mails, and I haven't received anything internationally except Nigerian 419 spam.
Small comfort.
And yes, after Vietnam, after the Church Commission, I do think this is impeachable.