Post Anti-Miltary Rant

In this incredible example of anti-military bias, this Washington Post Blog claims the Navy's newest nuclear sub, USS Virginia, spied on cell phones in Latin America:

we built a $2.4 billion submarine bristling with Cold War capabilities, and where do we send it on its first deployment: to South America to spy on cell-phone conversations.

Apparently, the Post in confusing what the Virginia can do, with what it actually does, and admits it:

Undoubtedly the boat collected radar and communications signals and proved its "enhanced littoral intelligence-gathering capability," carrying onboard special eavesdropping equipment configured especially for Latin American signals and targets. Did it listen in on the governments of Venezuela or Bolivia or some other special event?

My guess is that more likely the USS Virginia "practiced." It practiced what it might do in real war because its safe deployment to Latin American waters wasn't meant to really put the new boat into harm's way, and any terrorist threat from Latin America, if there even is one, can't really be handled with a submarine anyway.

Typical Left-wing reasoning is if the military could do something wrong, such as spying on cell phones, then that must be what it is doing. Guilty until proven innocent.