Well, not when their side is doing it.

There’s an interesting underlying story to this week’s news of American intelligence agencies spying on Princess Diana.

American intelligence agencies were bugging Princess Diana’s telephone over her relationship with a US billionaire, the Mail’s sister paper has learned.

Evening Standard reports that she was even forced to abandon a planned holiday with her sons in the US with tycoon Teddy Forstmann on advice from secret services, who passed on their concerns to their British counterparts.

Sources suggest they not only bugged phones, but also planted listening devices on Forstmann’s plane… which Diana frequently used. And the NSA is saying Diana wasn’t the target.

So who is Teddy Forstmann? It just so happens he’s a Republican businessman in New York and one-time potential political opponent of then-President’s wife, Hillary Clinton. And, of course, there is zero outrage from the same liberals who carried on and on about a surveillance program designed to monitor communications with suspected terrorists.

Even the cesspool of liberal idiocy has only one thread about the story… with less than 10 responses… and none overly concerned about this “illegal invasion of privacy and first step toward fascism”…

So for those of you keeping score at home:

Intelligence agencies under Republican President monitoring communications of potential terrorists = PROBLEM

Intelligence agencies under Democrat President monitoring communications of political rivals = NO PROBLEM