Someone's Lying About Spying

"The authorization given to N.S.A. by the president requires that one end of these communications has to be outside the United States. I can assure you, by the physics of the intercept, by how we actually conduct our activities, that one end of these communications are [sic] always outside the United States."

--Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the former N.S.A. director, now the second-ranking intelligence official in the country ... on whether N.S.A. has spied domestically

"People are running around saying that the United States is somehow spying on American citizens calling their neighbors. Very, very important to understand that one party to the communication has to be outside the United States."

--Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales

"A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct eavesdropping without warrants has captured what are purely domestic communications in some cases...."

--Anonymous officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the program remains classified

The anonymous sources say it was an accident. Hayden and Gonzales say it never happened. Who the hell would ever know? And what gullible fool would believe ANYTHING they said?

(All quotes above from today's NYTimes.)