Offering several rationales for why she had “difficulty ginning up much interest” in the recent report that the Bush administration secretly authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on Americans and others within the United States, syndicated columnist and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter wrote in her December 21 column: “I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.” A "daisy cutter" is a 15,000-pound bomb with a lethal radius of 300 to 900 feet, making it the largest conventional weapon in the U.S. arsenal.

Coulter's comments came in her December 21 column, in which she used a December 19 New York Times investigative article on child pornography as part of her argument in favor of the NSA's spying program.

From Coulter's December 21 syndicated column:

Monday's Times carried a major expose on child molesters who use the Internet to lure their adolescent prey into performing sex acts for webcams. In the course of investigating the story, reporter Kurt Eichenwald broke open a massive network of pedophiles, rescued a young man who had been abused for years and led the Department of Justice to hundreds of child molesters.

I kept waiting for the catch, but apparently the Times does not yet believe pedophilia is covered by the “privacy right.” They should stop covering politics and start covering more stories like this.

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Which brings me to this week's scandal about No Such Agency [NSA] spying on “Americans.” I have difficulty ginning up much interest in this story inasmuch as I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.