Thanks for the lethal pun, Richard Pryor. I hope you don't mind that I used it in a different sense.
Today's lead story in the NY Times, "Secrecy Is at Issue in Suits Opposing Spy Program," bears close reading.
You'll be unsurprised to learn that the government, who is the defense here, is being less than fully cooperative in dealing with the plaintiffs, their attorneys, and the judges hearing the cases. You might be interested, though, in just how ridiculous things can get when what's at issue is the NSA's domestic surveillance program; i.e., warrantless wiretaps.
The good news is that some serious people are finally taking the government to task.
During a dispute over access to a document, federal district judge Garr M. King said to Justice Department lawyer Andrew H. Tannenbaum:
My problem with your statement is that you assume you are absolutely correct in everything you are stating, and I am not sure that you are.
If there were ever a polite one-sentence summary of why the Bush Administration is such a disaster, that's it.
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