MSNBC's Tom Curry: Misleading his readers

Sometime's I come across something that is so misleading that it needs to be rectified. This time it is a comment from Tom Curry concerning Russ Feingold's attempt to introduce a resolution to censure the president. The author writes:

Feingold’s resolution would censure Bush for ordering surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) to listen in on conversations of al Qaida suspects outside the United States with persons inside the United States.

This is misleading because it alleges that Bush ordered secret surveillance
a) that the operation was targeted (while it was clearly not) and
b) perhaps even legal despite the fact that there never was a warrant

In reality we should be aware that., for better or for worse, the President has limited yet another basic right, the right to have once conversation private if there is no reason to believe that the conversation contains anything illegal. This, however, is but one of the steps that Preisdent Bush (with the help of Congress and the support of many including Democrats such as Joe Lieberman) has done to strengthen national security at the expense of basic freedoms.

If the terrorist's goal had been to do this they have succeeded. When the US calls for human rights violantions in many countries, you have to increasingly admit that the US cannot claim to represent liberty. It's a realy pity!