On Mon January 15 2007 9:43 am, Temlakos wrote: > I have already forwarded the text from the link you gave to Snopes.com > and TruthOrFiction.com. > I'll be interested in what they come up with, but, that's it, interested... I have no particular reason to believe the integrity ot their analytical process, or put any blind faith in it. > Bear the date in mind. This happened during the administration of > William J. Clinton, not George W. Bush. At the time, President Clinton > had no reason (at least none that he personally would believe) to > suppose that anyone would succeed him except his Vice President, Albert > A. Gore. Clinton had a penchant for monitoring people, too--his domestic > opponents. If George W. Bush is monitoring anyone, then it would be > those whom the government suspects of planning to blow something up with > people in or on it, sicken an entire city or two with anthrax (or West > Nile encephalitis), /et cetera/. > > So when you think of "who the present administration is," do not imagine > it to be any worse than would be an administration belonging to the > other party. > > Temlakos Point taken - but, if you're trying to morph this thread into a political debate, I won't take the bait... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA