More crackpot thinking from Glenn Greenwald

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49. The 2008 Amendments to FISA legalized most of it.

That, of course, doesn't make Greenwald's statement crackpot. Quite the opposite.

What's shocking is how little many Americans seem to know about how little privacy they have left in their communications, and how much data the gov't, in fact, has compiled on each of us. Some here apparently don't even want us to raise questions about this, and will try to destroy the reputations of those, like GG, who dare criticize these programs and how they are managed.

I see no reason to defer to SFP, who doesn't seem to understand that questioning gov't authority is a civic virtue, and doing it well, as Greenwald does most of the time, is a gift. On the other hand, uninformed hostility toward critics is no virtue, but some still confuse it with loyalty.