The Bush-Rove Administration is responding to the wiretapping scandal in their typical superficial way. Of course, they've already lied repeatedly about the law, their actions and the positions of their critics. That's so deeply embedded in their habits, it's part of their DNA.
But another habit for them is to try and rename the issue and force the lapdog press to adapt their Orwellian labels. We saw it when they tried to privatize Social Security and tried to call it "personal accounts."
Now, they want to rename the domestic wiretapping scandal and refer to it as the "terrorist surveillance program." This comes at the same time that Rove promises to, once again, shamelessly politicize national security for mid-term elections.
Well, let's be reasonable and accept part of their renaming. Let's accept the "surveillance" part, and make the rest more accurate. It's not the "terrorist surveillance program," it's the Citizen Surveillance Scandal!
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