portrait of the Editor
Editor's Note
Josh Millard
Editor-in-chief
May 12th, 2006

The call is coming from inside the house—NSA has built an exhaustive database of US phone records. President Bush responded unusually quickly to the news, declaring in a press conference that calls were not being listened to, simply tracked. Cold comfort to privacy advocates.

Former NSA director Michael Hayden’s recent nomination as director of the CIA is suddenly rather awkward.

On a more personal note, I am glad to be back, and I am never taking the Interns on a field trip ever again. My attorney and my psychotherapist have agreed that I should not go into details, but let me say this: there is no such thing as “nature’s toiletpaper”, and anyone who says otherwise is fired.