Back when President Obama was a wide-eyed candidate, he used to attack George Bush at every opportunity. One of his favorite targets was the surveillance state he said was created by the Patriot Act. In those days, he claimed that Big Brother was out of control, that the Patriot Act was an affront to the Constitution, and that - were he President - the whole thing would be brought under control.
“That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens,” he said in 2007. “No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.”
How times have changed. Under his administration the Patriot Act has been strengthened, the programs it created have been expanded, and the surveillance state he once lamented has grown exponentially. According to a new report in the New York Times, Obama was perfectly happy to let all this happen. His predecessor was gone and there was little reason to bother with undoing the transgressions of the Bush era.
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2 comments:
Snowden did a preemptive on BO yesterday--BO's teleprompter had to be reprogrammed before today's dose of the usual.
I read a report where the Washington Post's parent Corporation has been awarded a huge contract to operate the CIA's Cloud data base.
I just can't help thinking about the Balinese long-tailed monkey that picks fleas off each other..
6:20 LOL
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