It seems there used to be a certain term dogmatically used in every story about the warrantless wiretapping program…or should I say Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. In fact, I suspect it would be nearly impossible to find a pre-2009 story on the subject that went on for nearly 2500 words without using the phrase: DOMESTIC SPYING.  Well, times have changed and CBS DC does just that in a story today titled Senate Set To Approve Warrantless Wiretapping Program. (1)

Actually, times really haven’t changed too much.  They still can’t seem to get concept quite right:

“The program began shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks under the Bush administration, and without congressional authorization. … The CIA and National Security Agency use the program to collect intelligence on Americans who are communicating abroad with foreign ‘targets.’” [emphasis added]

My thoughts on the willfully misleading and/or ignorant phrasing aside, I will note for the record that the last sentence quoted above was clearly written in the present tense.

Interesting.

Ntrepid

Proud Redstate Member since April 2006…?

(1) http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/12/28/senate-set-to-approve-warrantless-wiretapping-program/