What screwed up priorities! The Government squanders money on trivial pursuits like the testing of water for residuals of recreational drugs while allowing this same water to be unlawfully polluted by industry!!!!

Oh yeah, dreadfully funny how, according to its own analysis, EPA is allowing polluters to "get away with" serious violations of the Clean Water Act; it found that formal enforcement actions were taken against less than a quarter of sewage treatment plants that were in violation of the law!!!!

In fact, on Jan. 15, 2004, the Bush admin. instructed agencies not to inforce Clean Water Act provisions, in doing so replacing a 25-year-old rule defining the scope of the Act.

So, what's the story here???

All I know is that the recent furor over domestic spying is a "crock." That's what the NSA does!--eavesdrop on calls to foreign countries!!!

Evidently, Bush is a master magician--the trick is not to be distracted by the one hand...!!!

>> the White House sees it as a tool to compile a more accurate drug use index <<

Or they've added something to the water, and are testing it's effectiveness and / or absorbtion rate.

I found myself wondering if somehow they can justiy eavesdropping by making a legal precedent using sewage testing. If one random warrantless earch for criminal activity can be justified, then can't another? Or maybe Bush has fallen off the drug-free wagon himself and they're trying to find out if it's traceable.