Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell heads to Capitol Hill this week seeking to extend the government’s power to read e-mails, listen to telephone calls and carry out other surveillance within the USA in national security cases.

Of course Democrats are up in arms at the this news, and of course Mike McConnell denies that he’s really a White House lackey, but what else, after all, can be said for a man who so neatly and cleanly supports unconstitutional measures without batting an eyelash. Oh hell.

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