Al Gore goes on tilt

Al Gore chose MLK Day to make a foray into Bush bashing as did a number of liberals like Hillary. Most of the reaction from other bloggers, however, has been directed at the inventor of the internet. Gore made the charge that Bush had broken the law by listening in on Al-qaida conversations. Not only that, he said the "very nature of our government" was threatened and "the Constitution was in grave danger". Furthermore, Bush imprisoned citizens and and authorized kidnap and torture.
The reaction has been both funny (more than one blogger suggested that someone who didn't flunk out of law school should opine about what is legal), and frankly demogogic and pathetic. The fact is Gore did not voice any objection when the Clinton administration wiretapped Aldrich Ames without a warrant. Jamie Gorelick who worked in the Clinton Justice Department told the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1994 "The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the President has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes". In addition, the Clinton administration used a surveillance operation called Echelon which targeted overseas e-mails and phone calls betweeen suspected terrorists and U.S. contacts. In order to do this, Echelon monitored virtually every electronic conversation around the world and in the U.S.
Gore and the other idiotic liberals should sit back and contemplate what it meant when Congress authorized Bush to use "all necessary" means to fight terrorism after 9/11.