When Harriet Myers vetted the following text in a letter signed by Georgie, did she reflect on the possible implications of what it means and what she would have had to opine had she been appointed to the Supreme Court???
" Safeguarding the security of the United States outweighs individuals' rights to privacy,"
Wow, i can't even begin to imagine the capacity of a US citizens to suggest that there is some entity other than the citizens that comprises the United States. Consider carefully the premise underlying the phrase itself, by changing just a few of the nouns to their appropriate and more relevant synonyms. Protecting the interests of a few in the United States requires the ending of civil liberties and civil rights for the mass of the citizenry. That really is what this says. Disregarding that the US Constitution quite literally puts all the political power into the hands of the people, that the people are the US, that their security and welfare are their interest and not that of a tiny minority of fascist totalitarian dictats, then you still have to struggle with the idea presented that there is something about the US that isn't about its people. I simply have no idea what that can be, do you???