Obviously, we agree on darn near everything here.
I guess my (still semantical) position is that the patriot act is inherently an abuse of power. So to me, anyone using it is exercising questionable judgment. I know warrants were obtained, but these are wide, wide, wide nets being cast (like the search of AP phone records), which is not right. If this were for phone records for me and you, it's one thing, but this is entirely different.
bush is a god-awful human being and I can see that comparisons to him/it evoke a visceral response. bush engineered the patriot act, the torture regime, and other hideous systems. But I can't get past the fact that Obama has elected to use all of those systems as a matter of course - as if they were all mundane, benign systems like inter-office mail. These are, in fact, a malignancy that should offend everyone.
Maybe I'm being unfair. BUT he could have vetoed the re-authorization of the patriot act and didn't. He could have reverted us back to FISA and he failed. So I just can't give him a pass on any of it.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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