To the Editor:

President Bush told reporters: “I’m not going to talk about techniques. My view is this: The American people have got to understand the program is important and the techniques used are within the law.”

In democracies, we do not rely on our leaders to tell us what programs are important and legal, even while hiding their details from us. The American people get to make their own decisions.

Jacob Remes
Durham, N.C., Nov. 2, 2007

Note from KBJ: We did: on 2 November 2004. Your guy lost; remember?