Guess what? This time it wasn't! The New York Times, which can't be trusted because it's at the forefront of the Liberal Media Conspiracy, reported today that the NSA has been spying on U.S. citizens for the last three years.

President Bush, who has been definitively caught engaging in sneaky, underhanded activities, signed an order in 2002 authorizing the National Security Agency to monitor "international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible 'dirty numbers' linked to Al Qaeda."

And now, the administration wants to renew the USA PATRIOT Act, asking us to trust that it won't abuse those powers. The USA PATRIOT Act is, for some reason, adored by conservatives because ... they want to spy on people? What happened to the Republican party as the party of small government? Unless it's the party of small government for only the Republicans. As for everyone else, their lives will be micro-managed and the intimate details of their personal conversations will be recorded in the name of the War on Terr'.

I feel ill. And so does the head of Richard Nixon, who engaged in similar actions when he was president.