Reply #2: Isn't the issue Bush's illegal circumvention of the law CONTROLLING use of

[kenny blankenship]

such surveillance and not surveillance practice itself ?
Why does CNN consistently frame this story like it can't read the wire stories that pass through its own website?
No one is criticizing the Bush administration for inventing the practice of opening foreign mail, they didn't invent it, under carefully worked out legal traditions it isn't "illegitimate" and no one is criticizing it. The story belatedly appearing in the NYTimes has to do with the secret but wholesale violation of the law regarding the practice by Bush. (And it is a criminal violation by Bush himself since he doesn't deny knowing about but on the contrary shows no surprise and asserts that it will continue.)

Fuck CNN.