appreciate outrage over the scope of the nsa s surveillance programs. wall street journal reporting wednesday that the agency system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all u.s. internet traffic. that news comes as newly declassified documents show the nsa collected as many as 56,000 domestic e-mails and other electric ronnic communications per year between wait and 2011. reported to congress and to the fisa court. joining the panel this week, wall street journal lump mist and accidenty editor dan henninger, columnist, mary o grade write. opinion journal.com editor james toronto. so, dan, how concerned should we be about the latest revelations? none whatsoever, paul. i m an anti-terrorist absolutist. okay. the premise here is that the nsa exists to prevent mass murder by
okay. mary? this is a hit for eric holder, attorney general, for his announcement that he will initiate more probes than a large financial firm that played a role in the subprime financial price its. i m excited about this because i know for sure this means he is going after fannie mae for its in the junk bonds and also it is possible that he s going to go after citibank where his treasury secretary used to work. paul, hit for two slivers of evidence that the culture may not be doomed yet. first is that anthony weiner, candidate in first place after his recent, shall we say, revelations, is in last place. the second one is that oprah winfrey this week was going to interview the troubled actress, lindsay lohan. by tv s measurement standards, nobody showed up to watch. some may say we are just bouncing off of the bottom of the culture. i m going to allow myself a ray