WTF Is It Now?!?

Know your Bizarro World history!
Legal wiretapping dates back to George Washington's electronic surveillance of Hessian headquarters, which Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez testified about earlier this week. President Lincoln went a bit further, using an elaborate network of spy satellites to track Confederate troop movments during the Civil War, which I believe Mr. Gonzalez also mentioned. Ironically, the Lincoln White House was never able to pick up John Wilkes Booth's cellphone calls.


Know your Bizarro World history, part 2
In February of 2003, Preznit Bumbles W. Lyington boldly said this regarding the leaks of sensitive information:

"But I want to tell you something -- leaks of classified information are a bad thing. And we've had them -- there's too much leaking in Washington. That's just the way it is. And we've had leaks out of the administrative branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative branch, and I've spoken out consistently against them and I want to know who the leakers are."

Today:

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