Kudos to Mark Fiore for an excellent dramatization of the folly of the Administrations actions and its political supporters.

Snuggly is a witty cartoon!

Bush is mush-brained if he thinks Americans can't see through his crimes this time.

fantastic.
easily the forerunner for most important political cartoon of '08.

Mark, it's quite possible this is one of your top-5 pieces over the past 7 years.

Most other abuses against our Constitution didn't actually touch most Americans. This warrantless wiretapping does, yet thanks to our conglomerate media cartel, these stories are filtered out of our living rooms. Ask any ordinary American what they know about this "warrantless wiretapping" thing and they'd likely reduce it to "something the Democrats are crying about while crippling our national security"... While having no idea every phone call to grandma, or to the pharmacist, or to a Priest or rabbi or chaplain to discuss family problems at home, are all being listened to and sifted for possible terrorist connection.

Your style has been so effective and prob hard for you to ever pick favorite pieces. I think this one is one of your most impt... WHoever mentioned succinct above is right. astounding how easily you crunched the whole narrative into about 7-8 bullet points. Now if only this cartoon could get pumped into every living room on TV sets...

thank you.

Mark:

I too heard about this on the Rachel Maddow Show. It was the Feb 15 show, currently available on iTunes as a free podcast. If you haven't heard her praise of your brilliance, it's worth a listen.

I'd love to hear you go on the show as a guest.

This is a brilliant summary of this subject; captures every nuance of the issue. EXCEPT the fact that Buscho will actually allow the supposedly crucial FISA extensions to lapse unless the telecoms are granted retroactive immunity. Conclusion: Bush, by his own arguments, is willing to risk the very lives of US citizens in an otherwise preventable terror attack in order to save the telecom companies from the mere possibility of exposure to potential lawsuits in which a court would decide whether or not they have done anything wrong. US lives held hostage to achieve freedom from litigation for the giant telecoms! Freedom is on the march!

You know how they say we shouldn't be afraid of wiretaps if we're doing nothing wrong? Well by that same token, the big telecoms shouldn't be afraid of legal exposure if they've done nothing wrong.

Keep up the excellent work.

Hope Snuggly the Security Bear is a recurring character.

KGD, Esq.
Lincoln, NE

What an amazingly concise summary of grim reality. Just brilliant.

This one cartoon is woth more than the Wash Post & all the Sabbath Gasbags combined!

Check out the Rachel Maddow show on Friday, 2/15 and hear her make a great plug for this cartoon. Please submit it to AlterNet and ThinkProgress as well. Great work Mark!

Jeff

you need to make this available for myspace, facebook etc!
maybe put a commercial or something in the beginning or maybe the end can bring traffic to your sight.

So please make this flash files available for all blogs, myspace and facebook so I (and others) can viral the love from the teddy and other wonderful & thoughtful news from our government and fellow corporations. ;)

Awesome stuff by the way I've been seeing your stuff since 2001! :)

Whew! That's a relief. Thanks Snuggly!

Security Bear,

You're not so secure after all. I guess that means if spies can eavesdrop on us without authorization that gives the general public authorization as well to do it too on them and people who they don't like its not that hard. You're a liar go back to the "sprout" TV network and scare kids with your tactics. You're rated TV-14 including Illegal Activities and Look at the Privacy Act of 1972 and ECPA of 1986.

ooooooooh, now I get it

thanks snuggly!!

That was brilliant... so scathing yet so cute

Okay, that was just about the most hilarious, scariest, true things I have seen in a while. Great stuff! I'm sharing it with everyone I know. Thanks!

-Jay

Note to Anonymous--comment which included the question: "are they still putting US citizens in GITMO?" No US citizens have ever been detained at GITMO. The two US citizens so far designated as enemy combatants, Jose Padilla and Yasir Hamdi, were detained at a Navy brig in South Carolina. Neither one is still there. Hamdi cut a deal after his S.Ct. case to relocate to Egypt and renounce his citizenship in exchange for no charges if he kept quiet about his treatment. Padilla was eventually charged with terrorist crimes to be heard in a US Federal court and transferred from DOD custody to DOJ custody. His trial in FLA was over and he was recently sentenced, despite defense claims that his treatment while he was detained as an enemy combatant should have resulted in severe restrictions in gvt evidence.

GITMO is not intended to hold US citizens, but I suppose the way things are going anything is possible. Note that both leading Presidential contenders (Obama for the Dems and McCain for the Republicans) have said they would close GITMO. Hillary's position is unclear. We'll see how things go on that, after 1/20/09.

Wow thanks for explaining this nonsense in a such clear and zinging way! Why are we letting our government get away with this nonsense?

-Scott Stevenson

By the way, I'm switching servers right now and there are some weird things going on. Sorry about the lack of animation beyond the current week. We should have that fixed soon. Arghh, stupid computers!

-Mark

Check out "The Spies Who Love You," and say hello to the NSA while you're at it!

-Mark Fiore