"Trust me"

For anyone who's been willing to take the Bush administration's "trust me" line on issues of domestic surveillance, here's evidence of why they can't be trusted:

The F.B.I. has improperly used provisions of the USA Patriot Act to obtain thousands of telephone, business and financial records without prior judicial approval, the Justice Department’s inspector general said today in a report that embarrassed the F.B.I. and ignited outrage on Capitol Hill.

Read the story in the New York Times here and the Washington Post here.