(AnonymousLiberal) July 28 - It's also worth pointing how breathtakingly hypocritical these leaks are. For years, the Bush administration has refused to acknowledge that it was involved in data-mining activities. When the USA Today reported in May 2006 that the administration was engaged in widespread data-mining, President Bush hastily convened a press conference in which he claimed that his administration was "not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans." He also noted angrily that "every time sensitive intelligence is leaked, it hurts our ability to defeat this enemy."
Now the existence of data-mining activities is being confirmed by anonymous administration officials--almost surely at the behest of the White House--solely in an effort to defend Alberto Gonzales from perjury charges.
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