Jesse Jackson calls Bush on his lies.

The National Security Agency has created ''the largest database ever'' with the phone records of millions of Americans provided to the NSA by AT&T, Verizon and Bell South for a price.

President Bush authorized the program and defends it. ''We are not trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,'' he said last week. How do we know? The court set up to provide warrants has been ignored. The law set up to regulate the system has been trampled. How do we know the president is telling the truth? Trust us, he says.

Trust the president who led us into Iraq on the basis of disinformation and misinformation? Trust the president who just weeks ago told us the NSA program involved only international calls with al-Qaida? The same president who said he'd fire anyone in the White House who helped leak the identity of Valerie Plame, the undercover CIA employee whose husband helped expose Bush's lies about Iraq's nuclear capacity? Now, with Karl Rove in the center of the effort to discredit Wilson and out Plame, the president says he has no comment on a continuing criminal investigation.

I have sort of turned away from Jesse after the Terry Schiavo affair. He really lost a lot of his credibility with me when he showed up to support her parents. But Jesse is one of our best advocates concerning human rights in this country and he certainly deserves to be listened to on this issue.