Our Government at Work: The Bush Years, Part 256

AltTulsa likes to be optimistic. Ordinarily we don't usually believe in government conspiracy theories, nor do we think of ourselves as especially paranoid.

Then we saw this story in yesterday's New York Times:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers’ Indonesia bureaus in 2004.

All righty, then: The FBI, those men and women who are supposed to be enforcing the law, are once again bending—if not breaking—the law instead.

As we said, we hate to be paranoid. But isn't there a pattern here?