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# Government wire-tapping is for our own good
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/government-wire-tapping-is-for-our-own-good-editor/
- Published: 2006-06-05T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T18:15:13.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Fred Alexander Santa Monica*

Those politically-right liberals are aiding our enemies again. To protect Americans our government needs to know who is communicating with known terrorists. The government is not listening to your conversations with your grandmother. The program fully complies with the law. Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate have been aware of this program for several years. Every time classified national security is leaked, our ability to gather information is compromised.

Unauthorized disclosure of classified material should be a felony as it puts American lives at risk. USA Today, who published the article, should be ashamed of itself. What this is really about is Bush-bashing at the expense of American lives. Certainly it was not necessary to go to the press with this discovery. This politically-right liberal snitch could have gone to the intelligence oversight committee if this tattletale thought there was a legal concern with this program to protect Americans.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 5, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/060506.pdf?ref=smdp.com)