Thanks for briefly mentioning torture at the Democratic National Convention, Al Gore. Barely any speaker at the DNC has touched it. Thanks for talking in the abstract about respect for the Constitution. No speaker I’ve heard so far other than you at the DNC has touched it, besides Bill Richardson (who seems to have departed from the approved text of his remarks).

“Inconvenient truths must be acknowledged if we are to have wise governance.”

That’s what you just said in your speech in a stadium before what could be a hundred thousand people, Al Gore. I wish that you had spoken about the inconvenient truth of warrantless wiretapping. You’ve spoken about it before. You’ve written long passages about it. I know you care about it. But you didn’t talk about it tonight. Not one speaker out of dozens that I can find has spoken of it during the entire Democratic National Convention, other than Bill Richardson — who to reiterate it appears pointedly departed from the official text of his prepared remarks in order to talk about civil liberty.

The speeches are vetted by the Democratic Party. Who vetted out talk about the unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping that silently plagues our nation?