The Bush Administration's
NSA wire-tapping and surveillance policies are the hot topic in
political discourse today, so I decided to travel three years into
the future to find out where these precedents being set today by
the Bush Administration are taking us.

What I found
and took back with me was this article below in the Washington
Post, just six months after the inauguration of the new president
in 2009.

Perhaps there
is a lesson to be learned from the Post article. I'll leave
that to your judgment.

June
5, 2006

Thomas
R. Eddlem
[send him mail] is
a native of the Boston area of Massachusetts and a graduate of Stonehill
College. He is a radio
talk show host in Southeastern Massachusetts and is a frequent
contributor to The
New American
magazine.