From "It Was Legal" To "I Am Lazy": The George Bush Domestic Spy Story

[tuvor]

David Sirota (Huffington Post) Wed Dec 21, 1:28 PM ET

Another day, yet another new and wholly different explanation from the Bush administration about its illegal domestic spying operation.

In just the last 5 days, we've seen 3 separate explanations rolled out from the White House. First they claimed it was legal all along, then when that didn't fly, they said they had to do it because of a need for speed. Now that that has been debunked, they are actually claiming they were just too lazy to do "the paperwork." On top of this, they also first told us that the surveillance was only targeted at international calls – but now today, we learn that isn't true either, and that Americans are under surveillance on purely domestic calls.

Let's just walk through the shenanigans, shall we?...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/012692

[rodeodance]

1. 4 years of laziness. umm... waiting for # 4

[tulsakatz]

2. it reminds me a lot of what they said before the war........

First, it was because we can't wait around for Saddam to become a threat......remember the description 'we don't want the smoking gun to come in the form of a mushroom cloud'. Then it was 'they have WMDs' and we know exactly where they are. Ultimately they decided it was because they wanted to free the Iraqi people.

These guys are just like the little kid who doesn't do his homework and then claims that the dog ate his homework.

No one believes that excuse and people are beginning not to believe anything out of this administration either!

[90-percent]

3. yup

there credibility is shot, therefore, what could be the harm in granting them unlimited powers normally found only in fascist polices states?

They're gonna do it anyway, regardless of what anybody says or does, right?

Executive Branch gone wild - gonna be a great video.

-85%

[tuvor]

4. Kicking for the a.m.