Good Doggy

This is instructive. It seems that no matter how long Drudge leaves up the "We Spied on Diana" headline, no one on the left side of the blogosphere seems interested in the story. Nothing at Dailykos, MyDD, Billmon, or Firedoglake. I did find something at Huff, but it notes only that it "raises fresh questions over transatlantic agreements on intelligence-sharing."

Hello out there. The U.S. government was bugging the phone of a completely innocent person. For a group of heavy breathers who have had so much to say about the NSA program, which monitors international calls between known terrorists overseas and U.S. contacts, you might think they might have something to say about bugging the phone of an innocent citizen with no links to terrorism whatsoever.

Apparently the prospect of wiretapping the phones of innocents wasn't that big of a concern after all, as long as it happened on Clinton's watch.

I did find one mental gymnsast who posted this:

We were bugging Princess Di the night she died - which seems to indicate some rather widespread wiretapping, which also makes you wonder why Dear Leader didn’t know about 9/11, since lack of this program (apparently already in existence) was blamed for “tying our hands.”

Clinton bugged Di = Bush should have known about 9/11.

Further evidence that, unless they can find a way to undercut the Bush administration, the left doesn't really give a crap about any of this. A democratic president could tap phones at the local nursing home and it would just be assumed there was a good reason for it.

UPDATE: Mia Culpa simply refuses to be distracted by something as trivial as the relentless march of time:

This administration knows no boundaries.

They may be nothing more than attack dogs, but at least their well trained. (Hmmm...sounds like a new catergoy.)