Watchman in our bedroom!

I am quite disturbed by the revelation that the Bush administration has been spying on U.S. citizens without any court authorization. I very well understand that it is necessary to discreetly monitor the activities of suspected terrorist supporters in USA. But there is a proper way of going about it. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, under the judicial branch, was established to give secret approval to such surveillances, assuring that there is a valid reason for it, and the power is not misused. It is completely bypassed in the name of protecting us from terrorists. I hope that there is sufficient uproar to stop this practice immediately. To me, the best analogy to the current sitauation is having a watchman to protect our house at night from robbers. We do not authorize the watchman to walk into our bedroom any time he pleases. There may be exceptions when he really has to search the bedroom. He better get permission for it first.

I am annoyed to hear that some leaders of the Congress were aware of this wire-tapping for months. It required the public outing of this practice, by New York Times, for those hypocrites to come out in the open criticizing it. I feel the gutless the opposition party (Democrats) has a lot to do with the excesses of the Bush administration. It has let us down.