In the news, a British citizen’s ” phone was bugged by US intelligence agencies… …without the permission of the British secret intelligence services.

Authoritative leaks say the extraordinary revelations will be published this week by Lord Stevens and is bound to raise fresh questions…

In the era of the Patriot Act, this shouldn’t come as a big surprise. Our government has been caught yet again spying on someone inappropriately. Yet another black mark on the civil rights record of George W. Bush… Except of course, this wasn’t during his Presidency. Apparently President Clinton’s administration played fast and loose with the rules too. I can hear the cries of moral outrage from here. People taking to the streets to protest the Clinton administration’s treatment of Princess Diana… Sorry, my mistake, those were crickets outside my window.