Bush Says Authorities Not "Mining or Trolling" Through Americans Personal Lives

The San Francisco Chronicle and numerous others reported today that:

Washington -- President Bush, reacting to a fresh furor over the disclosure that federal investigators have collected millions of domestic telephone records, said Thursday that authorities aren't "mining or trolling through the personal lives'' of ordinary Americans, but his comments failed to satisfy congressional critics from both parties who demanded answers about the program.

The firestorm over privacy rights versus the tools used in the fight against international terrorism has renewed debate about the administration's domestic spying and is all but certain to lead to further hearings in Congress.

The disclosure also complicates Bush's nomination of Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to head the CIA. Hayden, now deputy director of national intelligence, formerly headed the super-secret National Security Agency, the bureaucracy involved in the vast phone-calling database and in revelations in December of domestic eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails.

The complete story may be found here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/12/SPYING.TMP

Editors note: Does anyone really believe Bush and his assertions? Does Mr. Bush really believe that the U. S. electorate is totally brain-dead?
We will let our readers decide.