The Whole NSA Scandal - according to Jonah

Whenever I'm channel surfing, I can't help but notice how much media attention is given to this whole Bush spying thing. I mean, people want the President to help stop terrorism, but they can't listen in on suspected terrorists? Doesn't make much sense to me. Jonah Goldberg writes about the ridiculousness of this whole NSA "scandal." According to Jonah:

Here's what happened. After 9/11, authorities found a bunch of e-mail addresses and phone numbers in the phones and computers of confirmed terrorists. They tracked down those leads. Most of the people the NSA started eavesdropping on - about 7,000 - lived overseas, and their phone calls were to other foreigners living abroad. But, according to Risen's book, "about 500 people" living in the U.S. who were in contact with suspected terrorists had their communications tapped. Risen calls this "large-scale" spying on the American people even though, as the Weekly Standard recently noted, this constitutes "1.7 ten-thousandths of 1 percent of the U.S. population."

As he further points out, does anyone really believe that completely random and innocent Joe American Smith is being wire-tapped? According to MSM like CNN, the answer must be yes. Which reminds me, why are the Iranians the lucky ones to get CNN banned from their country?