After listening to President George W. Bush attempt to put a spin on the secret wiretapping program this week, I am appalled.

This attack on civil liberties is not about tracking terrorists, it's about a potential breach of the Constitution.

Congress did not give Bush authority to conduct the domestic spying program. The administration claimed the authority to conduct the wiretaps because of a resolution passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

However, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service found that the resolution did not, in fact, authorize the spying, and found it unlikely that any court would agree with the administration's justifications.

How many more injustices are we going to let the Bush administration get away with merely because they play the "terrorism" card every chance they get?

Jane Kilmer
social work graduate student