Another new alliance of strange bedfellows, calling itself the Liberty Coalition, sponsored Gore's speech and scrambled to construct a Web site.

Dedicated to "preserving the Bill of Rights, personal autonomy and individual privacy," the Liberty Coalition includes dozens of groups from across the political spectrum - such as the ACLU, Amnesty International, Mothers Against the Draft and Move.on Political Action on the left, and the American Conservative Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, the Free Congress Foundation and the National Taxpayers Union.

The groups are often at one another's throats over a crazy-quilt range of issues, from tax reform, civil liberties and cyber-piracy to budget restraint, gun control and anti-war protest.

Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said gun owners should feel especially threatened by Bush's electronic surveillance.

Instead of wasting time and energy trying to figure out how to interpret the lines and form of the shadows, we should focus directly on the privacy question.

Using "privacy" as a code name for upholding the Roe v. Wade decision and abortion rights generally ignores the fact privacy advocates hold different views of the abortion question -- and wrongly credits the Roe court for being pro-privacy.

From The Washington Times

True transformations in politics are as rare as palm trees in the Arctic Circle.

But Al Gore is that palm tree.

From Insight magazine, owned by The Washington Times:

<!--StartFragment --> "The sources provided guidelines to how the administration has employed the surveillance program. They said the National Security Agency in cooperation with the FBI was allowed to monitor the telephone calls and e-mails of any American believed to be in contact with a person abroad suspected of being linked to al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.

"At that point, the sources said, all of the communications of that American would be monitored, including calls made to others in the United States. The regulations under the administration's surveillance program do not require any court order."