Some former goverment functionary of some sort named Tice went on NBC the other day, and said that the Bush Administration had been monitoring the phone calls and emails of everyone in America. That sounds a bit far-fetched to me. In Russia newspeople who criticize the government get gunned down on the street. I don't recall any thing like that happening in the US during the Bush Administration. The only unreasonable jailing I read about was reporters who refused to testify in the Libby case, where the Bush Administration was being investigated. If we assume that Tice was correct, I have to wonder how Bush did it. There are 300 million people in America. There are billions of emails and phone calls each day. It would have taken millions of people to monitor all of that traffic. I suppose if we assume that Karl Rove really is the devil, he could have done it. If Bush had that kind of power, how did Republicans lose the 2006 election to say nothing of the 2008 election.