The NYTimes has caved.

Okay, I'm gonna call it officially. After that strained argument by the Whitehouse that the domestic eavesdropping program shouldn't be called domestic because one of the parties is overseas(one is in this country, though and the tapping actually took place here, right?) the NYTimes appears to have caved in to the preposterous semantic demands.

Two days in a row, the word "domestic " has been removed from the term in the NYTimes lead article on the subject. They have gone from "domestic spying" or "domestic eavesdropping" to "wiretapping," which has its own set of negative connotations.