Bush: I will make you fishers of men

Bush on the latest leaked revelations about the extent of electronic surveillance:

We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans.

Hmm. Neither mining nor trolling. What's left?

Fishing
Plumbing
Probing
Digging
Excavating
und so weiter

I liked that "trolling," though. Presumably he didn't mean trawling (pictured here), in which millions of organisms from plankton to dolphins are gathered up in huge nets. No -- they're not doing that.

So what did he mean by "we're not trolling?" Oh, okay:

trolling: a fishing method in which lines with baits or lures are dragged by a vessel at a speed of 2-10 knots.

Feel better?

Bush, surveillance, trolling