Bush's Explanation of Wiretapping Program is Easier to Understand than People Think

President Bush's explanation of a covert wiretapping program makes perfect sense, but many don't seem to be listening to what he's saying.

Consider this: Bush said that the program monitors incoming international phone calls from known terrorists or sympathizers to people who are already under observation in this country.

So if someone on the FBI's most wanted list of terrorists (like Ayman al-Zawahiri) makes an incoming phone call to someone in the United States, and voice recognition software identifies the caller's voice as al-Qaeda's theological leader (who is suspected of organizing the massacre of 67 foreign tourists in Luxor, and the bombings of two U.S. embassies in 1998), then the NSA had better be listening to the conversation in the event that the message that al-Zawahiri is giving is an attack order on targets in the United States.

Who would al-Zawahiri be calling? Not Johnny Average American. He's calling criminals in this country who are preparing to murder thousands of people if they can.

WHO GIVES A HOOT about wiretapping in that instance? Get over it and let the government do it's job. Johnny Average American isn't being monitored unless an international killer is calling him from overseas to order him to blow up a building and everyone inside it.

That's what Bush was saying and Congress is ignoring.

You'll have to forgive me if I don't seem to be concerned about the civil rights of Americans who are aiding the enemy. Providing aid and comfort to the enemy is treason, and Americans who engage in treason with known terrorists don't deserve protection from wiretapping.