When the administration shoves Mr. 31% in front of the cameras to do some damage control , you know that this is a huge scandal:

"Our intelligence activities strictly target al-Qaida and their known affiliates," Bush said. "We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans."

Um, Mr. President, you may want to check with your nominee, General Hayden:

I have met personally with prominent corporate executive officers. (One senior executive confided that the data management needs we outlined to him were larger than any he had previously seen). [...] And last week we cemented a deal with another corporate giant to jointly develop a system to mine data that helps us learn about our targets.

So, either the President is lying, or his nominee is a perjurer. Take your pick, Mr. President. We're waiting.