Kerry has broken his silence on the wiretapping issue:

BOSTON –Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday that the domestic spying authorized
by the White House “doesn’t uphold our Constitution,” and that President
Bush offered a “lame” defense in recent public appearances.

The Massachusetts Democrat, who lost to Bush in the 2004 presidential
election, also said the alleged White House leak of a CIA agent’s identity
was more serious than the media’s disclosure of the spying program.

Bush said Monday that it was “a shameful act” for someone to have leaked
details of the program to The New York Times, and he suggested the Justice
Department is investigating the leak.

Though leaking any classified information is against the law, “there is a
world of difference between what the president’s engaged in and what was
leaked out of the White House,” Kerry told reporters after addressing
ironworkers at a local labor hall.

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Also worth noting, a peace group in Ohio was the target of a Department of
Defense survellance program.

An Akron-based group charged Monday that the Department of Defense spied
on area residents at a peace rally March 19.

The Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee said documents
uncovered by NBC News in a Wednesday report revealed that information about
the Akron gathering was included in the data.

“This is chilling,” the Quaker-affiliated group said in a press
release.

Department of Defense spokesman Maj. Paul Swiergosz said in an e-mail
that “DoD policy for intelligence and counter-intelligence organizations
prohibits the reporting, processing or storing of information on individuals
or organizations not affiliated with the DoD, except in limited
circumstances that are defined and codified by law.”

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What pisses me off more than anything about this is the fact that people died
in New Orleans while the floodwaters were rushing in and the Department of
Defense was arguing if they could operate domestically. When it comes to saving
American lives they have a problem with it but when it comes to violating the
rights of Americans and spying on them then they will do it without hesitation.