Bush's respect for the Supreme Court and privacy

[Ghoulish Delight]

And yes, I realize this was passed under Clinton, and I was angry at Clinton when he signed it. But what's particularly troubling me now with Bush is that A) He's continuing to fight this even after a Supreme Court ruling against it in a time where the question of the relation of the Executive Branch to the Court is a key one and B) He's demonstrating a disturbing belief that it's the government right and responsibility to comb through the collective communicatinos of the citizens of this country to make sure they aren't communicating anything he considers morally objectionable. He can call the wire tapping "specific and targeted" all he wants, we know that the facts are that he ordered telephone companies to release their full phone histories so NSA could run pattern seraches on the data to find anything "objectionable". And here he is attempting to seek similar authority for internet records to uphold a law that's already been struck down by the SC.