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The President’s Measured Response to Criticism of His Secret Domestic Spying Operation

Since I am Commander in Chief, My powers to spy or debrief Are limitless. That's my belief. So go somewhere else with your beef.

Calvin Trillin

January 5, 2006

Since I am Commander in Chief, My powers to spy or debrief Are limitless. That’s my belief. So go somewhere else with your beef. I’ll do what I want when I want to. Since terror is not like croquet, The NSA does what I say. Despite your soft-headed dismay, My Nanny Dick says it’s OK. I’ll do what I want when I want to. Security trumps, that’s for sure. And I get to say who’s secure. And laws and court warrants obscure My mission. And I will endure! I’ll do what I want when I want to.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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