Nobody gives a shit about these "scandals"

[Skidmore]

73. You know, nadin, these superduper security laws were created during

the Bush administration as a knee-jerk reaction to a crisis and to shore up their planned incursions into Iraq. Yes, there were some out here, most notably on DU in the beginning, who raised their voices in opposition to the whole Patriot Acct/Homeland Security insanity. We did not sit silently in the face of truly egregious affronts to civil liberties then. Those protests fell on deaf ears and went unreported by the media, who were so fearful of Rove and his machine that they barely referred to the free speech zones that were so graciously supplied to dissenters by the Bush regime. I do not have a large fund of sympathy for the AP right now. What goes around comes around and perhaps the law does need to be changed if it creates gray areas.