NSA Spying

Just a couple of comments on the whole NSA spying thing:

1. Why does everybody call it spying on "domestic" telephone calls? I distinctly remember that the program involves spying on international telephone calls--you know, the kind that cross national boundaries. When I make a phone call from the United States to a foreign country, it isn't a domestic phone call--it's an international call. That's how it shows up on my phone bill, anyway.

2. To expose the double standard of the mainstream media: where was the outrage when the Clinton White House had illegal possession of the FBI files of a number of political opponents? Isn't that domestic spying without a warrant?

Go figure.

I don't want this blog to be dominated by political garbage. Unfortunately, the signal to noise ratio out there in MediaLand is rapidly approaching zero, and it's hard to resist the urge to attempt to inject a little bit of signal into the noise...