"This is Big Brother run amok!" - Sen. Edward Kennedy

“We cannot protect our borders if we cannot protect our ideals.”

Additional response from Sen. Kennedy to today's NYT report that Shrub authorized warrentless domestic spying on Americans:

Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts

That's in addition to the NBC report earlier this week that the Pentagon has been involved in domestic spying on Americans' anti-war activities:

Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?

I think Orwell had it right but was off a couple of decades... Instead of "1984," it obviously should have been, "2004."

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