Yes. Yes we are. I don't think it's appropriate to judge war time presidents because modern day war a vastly different animal from what it used to be. If we had been in WW2 for four years and had 2,000 dead, it would be considered a miracle and a massive victory. Now, pretty much all this stuff could have been done by drones and planes, like Clinton and Bush sr. did. Not by a needless ground war in a country uninvolved with the 9/11 attacks.
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Or perhaps they didn't have enough leeway in the past since they were working under rules written before DNA matching and the communications boom.
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So notification should be suspended for rifling your book bag, but still used for searching your house? I think the Miranda rule was written well enough to cover new technologies. The government should not be allowed to search your house, your DNA, or your shopping habits without telling you why. Kind of funny how Rush Limbaugh is now preaching that these rights are only "rights", and not anything to be concerned about. Meanwhile, he's been fighting a battle in Florida courts trying to protect his "right" for his medical records to remain private.
Also meanwhile, the President unearthed this Dick "Big Time" Cheney guy last night, who is apparently still next in line to the oval office, to grumble and growl that anybody who criticizes the current administration is committing a "travesty". How having a man who is little more despised than the President himself perform this odd little seminar is supposed to endear them to the rest of us, I have no idea. The whole act was kind of like a negligent parent batting around his kid and saying, "I DEMAND you respect me!"
This is the reason 66% of America is not pleased with this bungling administration.