Because it threatens national security.

Which is why the Democrats will be upset. They want to harm national security for their own political purposes.

The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission declined to investigate reports that phone companies turned over customer records to the National Security Agency, citing national security concerns, according to documents released on Friday.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin turned down a congressional request for an investigation as a top intelligence official concluded it would "pose an unnecessary risk of damage to the national security," according to a letter National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell sent to Martin on Tuesday.

After all, we have already seen public disclosures of sensitive information in the press that have aided the terrorists. The NY Times and Washington Post are required reading for Osama's intelligence assets. Al-Qaeda doesn't need to penetrate and subvert our nation's intelligence agencies, because the US media already has.

But I will agree with Democrat Ed Markey on one point.

"I believe the agency could conduct its own examination of such reports in a way that safeguards national security," Markey said in a statement.

And he is right -- the FCC could do so. the problem is that Markey and his fellow Democrats, or their staffs, would be quick to leak the report to the media, again allowing al-Qaeda to receive aid and comfort from the opponents of the war.

But let's be real clear about one point. The US government today is doing the exact sorts of things that the Roosevelt Administration did in the 1940s to defeat the Nazi menace. The difference is that the press and the Democrats are no longer on the side of the United States.

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