Asked if the program should be referred to as domestic spying or terrorist surveillance, McCain said: “I don't know, that’s why I'm glad the president said he welcomes hearings.”

You can always count on McCain to take a stand on tough issues -- especially in front of the cameras.  At least he's pleading ignorance and staying out of the way for the moment.  His biggest problem after stepping down from the media platform is figuring out which side of the aisle to walk back to.

The article goes on to mention the following event:

Speaking to students at Georgetown University law school, Gonzales was confronted by more than a dozen young people who turned their backs to him and held up for a banner for television cameras. The banner, loosely based on a Benjamin Franklin quote, read: “Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.”

Well that's nice but it seems that the AP knows their historical quotes about as well as the libs who made the banner.  Michelle Malkin reports on what Ben Franklin really said and what it means.  So the only question is did the AP simply not know the correct historical quote, or did they simply decide not to inform their readers on the disparity because it might help their case?  I could see this one going either way....

One of Michelle's readers wrote the following regarding Benjamin Franklin:

The misquotation of Franklin in the argument about "domestic wiretapping" strikes me as particularly amusing in light of Franklin's role as one of the premier intelligence agents during the Revolutionary War. The CIA has a nice summary of the intelligence activities undertaken in that war, and no one is so prominent as Franklin, including in covert activities. More to the point here, Franklin was a member of the original committee, appointed by the Continental Congress, to review and publish intercepted communications from England. Hmm, Benjamin Franklin: Domestic Spy! If he meant what the liberals think he meant, we're going to have to change his statues to read "Printer, Inventor, Statesman, Hypocrite"!

UPDATE:  And to add to the hypocrisy we now have a Clinton bashing Bush for spying:

"Their argument that it's rooted in the authority to go after al-Qaida is far-fetched," she said in an apparent reference to a congressional resolution passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.

 Huh?  So what is the Junior Senator from New York's explanation for why the sale of disposable cell phones skyrocketed after the classified NSA program was -- illegally -- made public?

Perhaps Hillary believes that FDR didn't have the authority to break codes and intercept Japanese communications in WWII? 

The only authority Congress has in the collection of foreign intelligence during a war is the power of the purse.  If Hillary really has a problem with this, she can work with her allies in the Senate to kill funding for the program, but they aren't doing that.  They simply want to grandstand in front of the cameras in an election year.