This is the excuse the loyalists on Team Democrat have floated to justify our runaway surveillance state: "They're not actually listening to your calls," etc. Perhaps not, but who can say for sure since we now know that they have the power to do so? And even if the Obama administration's intelligence-gathering motives are pure the driven snow, what about President Christie's or President Perry's in 2021? You really want to entrust this kind of state power with these people?
This is what's so maddening about the so-called liberals who've been dogging Greenwald and defending the administration. Because history teaches us that government that arrogates this kind of unchecked surveillance power onto itself will inevitably abuse that power---and as a rule, it's abused most often to discredit and harass leftists. That's our history. It's a shame some liberals have forgotten it.
---Baron V
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