Michelle Malkin: GOP cheerleader...

Michelle Malkin has posted some excerpts from a speech given today by VP Cheney. One of them is as follows:

Another absolutely vital requirement in the War on Terror is that we use whatever means are appropriate to try to find out the intentions of the enemy. To this end, in the days following 9/11, the President authorized the National Security Agency to intercept a certain category of terrorist-linked international communications.

Wait a minute. I thought we've been told that Bush's NSA spying program is merely a continuation of decades worth of prior precedent. Now we're told that Bush extended the scope of the NSA even more than was done by Clinton and his band of criminals?

It's too bad, I used to think Michelle was truly on the side of individual liberty and government restraint. It appears she's fallen into the government-media complex trap in order to sell books and get on television. Once upon a time, I think Michelle would have thrown a flag on this flagrant attempt by President Bush and his followers to grab power and to centralize it inside the White House.

What happened?