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Tony Snow's daily priority should be to dismantle recycled crap like this. Some idiots still don't understand that NSA phone surveillance wasn't news the first time around, and it certainly isn't now, either. Nevertheless, the usual suspects are foaming at the piehole all over again, just as they did when the matter was first hyped in December of 2005, and just as they would if another 9/11 attack took place in the absence of exactly such a program.

Power Line offers educational information for those still stuck on stupid, and PajamasMedia shares bloggers' reactions to the USA Today story.

Mark Levin asks, Where's The 4th?, and then cuts right to the heart of the problem: too many do not take this war seriously.

The NSA intercept program shouldn't be controversial. The Constitution and precedent make clear that the president, especially during war-time, can intercept enemy communications, including if those communications involve U.S. citizens within the United States. It is absurd to argue otherwise.

And now, we're supposed to be offended when the government data-mines third-party phone records. This doesn't involve eavesdropping, but merely running these millions of phone numbers and tens of millions of phone contacts through some kind of computer analysis.

This has nothing to do with the Fourth Amendment. The case law couldn't be clearer. And those who demand judicial oversight do so not because they want or hope the courts will affirm these intelligence-gathering methods, but because they oppose them and hope some activist court will kill them.

I hesitate to voice this thought, but perhaps it really will take another attack on the scale of 9/11 before the idiot left wakes up to the facts that yes, there really is a war going on and yes, there really is an implacable enemy, and no, his name isn't George W. Bush.

As I've said before, I wouldn't mind if leftist antiwar idiots could only hurt themselves. It's when their idiocy endangers me, my loved ones and my society that I have a problem with them. Opposing perfectly legal and effective signals intelligence programs in wartime is not only absurd, it is appallingly selfish and irresponsible.

Idiots have no concept of patriotism, which is exactly what makes them so dangerous in wartime.