Here’s a rare weekend post. Since most of you read at work, it’s usually fairly pointless to put something up on the weekend. However, more about Bush’s eavesdropping plan has come out, and this has to be said.
If Bush and the boys find guessing to be essential to the “war on terror,” they’re so messed up in the game.

See, when you have to resort to warrantless surveillance, you’re just guessing. If you weren’t guessing, you could easily obtain a warrant for such things. The administration would have you believe that they needed to respond quickly to terror threats, but let’s think about this. If they need to perform surveillance so fast that they can’t wait for the paperwork, one would assume they have reason to believe that something is imminent. Or that they really have no clue what’s might or might not be going down and need to act post haste to get on the job.
That last part is one of two things–guessing or slow responding intelligence work.
Either way, so messed up in the game.
So what’s the problem with guessing? Much of the Constitution is to prevent the government from just guessing. The gubment needs some semblence of cause to start tailing people. And contrary to what many might think, it doesn’t take much cause to get a warrant. So, if there’s a need to avoid getting a warrant, then we’re just talking about guessing.
That’s right–guessing.
So is the United States any better equipped to fight terrorism than it was before 9/11? It appears that we are not.
So let’s kinda save the time of having an argument about the law. Let’s just look at what’s there and what it means.
It means that Bush has been good for absolutely nothing.
Remember after 9/11 when people said they were glad to have Bush in charge because he would be decisive and handle the terror threat in a way that Gore would not have been able to? Well, what has Bush really done?
He’s reached the novel conclusion that you can find out more about people when you start guessing instead of thinking and investigating.
So messed up in the game.