It just gets worse and worse

According to Raw Story, the Justice Department chose today, Friday, to file answers to Congressional inquiries about the NSA wiretapping program. For the most part, the response refused to answer the questions asked, but in one case, they did admit that the spying included lawyer-client and doctor-patient conversations. If they've gone that far, I don't doubt they're also listening in at the confessional. And, since they refuse to define the term "terrorist," there's no way to limit who they're listening to.

I'm reminded of a scene in the Counterfeit Traitor, an old favorite of mine starring William Holden, whose role is to play an American ex-pat who is using his feined anti-Americanism to gain a foothold in spying on the Hitler regime. In the scene I have in mind a Nazi investigator for the SS impersonates a priest so he can hear the confession of William Holden's contact, who is also his lover. The lover unwittingly spills the beans to the non-priest, leading to her arrest and execution. It's a really creepy scene, but now we have our own government doing the very same things.

In the words of a Broadway play, "Stop the world, I want to get off."