TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Representative Justin Amash introduced an amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would defund the NSA’s authority to indiscriminately collect phone records and metadata. In response, the White House’s Jay Carney said this:

“We oppose the current effort in the House to hastily dismantle one of our Intelligence Community’s counterterrorism tools,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a late-night statement. “This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open or deliberative process.”

“Blunt” approach? Not the result of an “informed, open or deliberative process?” Are those really the words coming out of this administration—the same administration which has used espionage prosecutions to try to squash the public’s ability to know about secret programs that collect private information of millions of American citizens, secret programs the administration claims can’t be challenged in court?

I try my best to remain level-headed while writing here, but this is the most level-headed thing I know how to say in response to this. Hey, White House: Screw you.