Your FBI Is Spying on You Even When They Don't Want To:

Here comes that can of worms opened up by overzealous officials and their accomplices, both of whom watch too much Fox TV: ZDNet reports that an unnamed ISP has turned over the email of hundreds, perhaps thousands of people to the FBI by mistake! Yes, that's right, folks. They gave up far more than they were requested, and you know your national police force is going to take advantage of the situation. Now that's the kind of security we can all be pleased with. Don't you feel safer already?

Too Good to Pass Up:

The hot news out of Washington has nothing to do with the primaries. Everybody's talking about the FBI's latest fiasco: The Bureau can't pay its phone bill. Lora Jakes Jordan reports on the situation in Salon.com. The plug on the Bureau's wire taping activities has been pulled by the phone companies.

Our supreme leader may have been addressing the issue when he had these words to say three years ago: "Who could have possibly envisioned an erection—an election—in Iraq at this point in history?" — George W. Bush, Washington, D. C., January 10 2005.