Great Briefing

Another reason I love C-SPAN: I just finished watching General Michael Hayden (Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence) give a briefing on NSA’s “domestic spying” on C-SPAN this morning. Gen. Hayden used to be the Director of NSA before assuming his current duties; his talk on NSA's intelligence gathering activities was about as straight-forward as can be expected, given that he was discussing a highly-classified program. There should be a video of his speech and the subsequent Q&A session up on C-SPAN’s web site later today. I’ll post the link if and when I see it.

One highlight of the Q&A session was a moonbat who pointedly asked Gen. Hayden if “the Bush Administration was /is spying on domestic opponents of the Bush Administration.” When I say “pointedly,” I mean this guy was clearly exercised. He identified himself as a member of “World Can’t Wait,” a virulently anti-Bush organization*. This individual was obviously deep in the throes of Bush Derangement Syndrome, bordering on paranoia. Something to ponder: Does this guy have a legitimate fear, or is he and/or his organization doing things that MERIT monitoring by the government? Just wondering, ya know. God, but we do seem to have more frickin’ nut cases than we really need.

* Any organization who’s supporters include individuals such as Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan, Ward Churchill, Mumia Abu-Jamal and organizations such as Code Pink, the After Downing Street Coalition, and the Impeach Bush Coalition has to be seriously suspect. If I were the NSA, I’d monitor them. And shame on the Rev. Al Sharpton, Bobby Rush (US Representative, Chicago), and Maxine Waters (US Representative, D-CA) for even being associated with this rabid organization. Shame.