I got a little chuckle from this:

What's really a hoot is hearing liberals piping up with "If he's got nothing to hide, why worry about his privacy?" argument, which they have lambasted unmercifully when cops or the FBI came up with it.

Welllll, Tom, Bush is your President, remember, not a private citizen on the receiving end of a cop's or FBI agent's gun; and the issue isn't his private actions or papers (as it was with Clinton), but rather the record of his actions and those of his people like Cheney, in their role as government officials.

Since when do government officials have a right to privacy while performing their public duties?

FOIA, "sunshine laws", open-meeting laws...all are necessary to government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The Bush Regime is clearly hostile to that concept, and believes in "government of our contributors, by our contributors, for our contributors...and Daddy".

--Robert