The Big Sleep (Corrected)

Thanks Moderator, for the "assist".

David Brooks, a NY Times columnist, penned an interesting article entitled ''The Big Sleep'', regarding the confirmation hearings of Gen Hayden. In that article he had these words:

''The first element in this calm was the rapid fizzling of he NSA scandal. We have been treated in the past year to a panoply of anticlimactic frenzies. Most Americans seem to have looked at the facts and concluded that having to open your suitcase in the airpost security line is a far bigger invasion of privacy than having your phone records in a list of 4 trillion numbers on a computer somewhere in an agency trying to fight terror.''

"Then at the hearing, Hayden gave a sober and apparently thorough discription of the safeguards in place to keep the information from being misused----of the checklists that career professionals must fill in before each investigative targeting, of the documentation that is kept, of the inspector general supervision and oversight. No Democrat challenged this procedure or showed much passion about the program."

I have this from the local newspaper, but the full article can be found at http://select.nytimes.com/pages/timesselect/index.html if you're a NYTimes subscriber, then click on "Columnist Page" under his name.

Looks like the "anti Bush" crowd will need to look for something new to screech about.