“Richard Milhous Nixon set an infamous standard for spying on Americans and abusing the powers of the Presidency. But Nixon wouldn’t have dared dream of the sweeping authority being claimed by George W. Bush.

Now, the Bush administration has on the drawing board at a top Pentagon research agency plans that would open America to an Orwellian future. Bush, who sees those not with him as with the terrorists, will soon have the means, motive and opportunity to make the domestic spying of the Nixon era look quaint.” The Consortium