"Can't you Americans keep a secret?"

The buzzards continue to swirl around the NSA super-snoop program. Recently we've seen a letter from Representative Jane Harmon, a high-ranking member of the House Intel Committee and certainly no moonbat, urging Bush to stop using the NSA to listen for threats. Others are planning to use such things as stump speech material.

Meanwhile, everyone met in Congress today to discuss the fact that nobody in the country can keep a national intelligence secret during a war. Said Porter Goss:

"I use the words `very severe' intentionally. And I think the evidence will show that," he said. Goss cited a "disruption to our plans, things that we have under way." Some CIA sources and "assets" had been rendered "no longer viable or usable, or less effective by a large degree," he said.

Meanwhile, Democrats claim the White House built a wall around the program without telling them. No Shiite, Sherlock. Had they been told some of those self-important blowhards might have leaked the program for a Krispy Kreme.

But it wasn't just them. The circle of knowledge was very tight:

As an indication of how closely the administration held the NSA program, Paul McNulty, the acting deputy attorney general since October, said Thursday he learned of it only when he read about it in The New York Times.

Yet we have leaders like Jay Rockefeller playing games with this thing:

In December, Rockefeller released a copy of a July 2003 letter he had written to Vice President Dick Cheney, expressing his concerns over the program after a White House briefing.

If you write a letter out of "deep concern", don't sit on it, SEND IT. Seems Jay has an idea who he thinks is actually leaking the information:

Rockefeller suggested that such "leaks" most likely "came from the executive branch" of the government.

Well, everyone has an opinion Mr. Rockefeller. For example, how do we know you didn't leak it? You did know about it, you had the letter and all.

In the end we're either at war or not. Last we heard from Bin Laden it wasn't to announce he'd added America to his Ramadan card list.

There is a very deep and serious threat involved with this NSA program, otherwise a president would never stoop to begging a newspaper executive not to publish. The real problem is that we've NOT been attacked lately, and complacency is allowing otherwise sensible people to think nothing of sacrificing security for short term political gains. Remember which party coined the term, "loose lips sink ships".