Despicable Behavior

Let me tell you something. I live in a community loaded with NSA people. One of our good dinner friends from the past was a NSA guy, and standard table banter - 25 years ago -  was something like this. Boopy ''You'll never guess who called me last week.'' Buddy ''Neil can. He probably listened to it!'' Group ''Bwahaaaaaaaaaaa !'' So,  we are to believe that ''Lawmakers'' in 2006 are scandalized by NSA activity that was common knowledge a quarter century ago?  My understanding, then, was that NSA had the capability of filtering every phone call in the world for certain key words and phrases.  I was comforted by that.  I have no idea if we actually had that capability, Neil was utterly tight lipped about details, but you get the point.  And Democrats must be familiar with ECHELON, which came to light during Clinton. A favorite moment during  the Senate's Iran-Contra hearings was when Ollie North told his inquisitors that the reason he failed to inform the the Senate Intel committee about certain things, was the Administration knew some Senators would leak sensitive information for political advantage (Google  "Leaky Leahy").  Nothing has changed. Since the light bulb bubble appeared over Democrat heads -  the one that said ''Holy crap, if we win this war, Bush will be reelected'' - their behavior has been despicable, if not treasonous. And now this farce?  A horse whipping would not begin to suffice for this lot.