Republicans are going crazy over the fact that Holder signed off on the warrant for Rosen's emails

[woo me with science]

44. That's the eternal problem, though.

We are constantly exhorted to defend the indefensible because of partisan, political motivations.

We decried the Republicans' disgusting defense of the Patriot Act, warrantless surveillance, torture, rendition, etc., etc., etc. And now Obama is continuing and expanding those policies, we are urged to circle the wagons, because of political considerations....

Step back, and you realize that this is how the corporate One Percent *ensure* the continuation of their agenda. They can always count on half of us to defend the indefensible.

We are losing our country. We are being impoverished, and our civil protections stripped from us. This should not be a difficult call. If we cede the freedom of our press from government targeting and surveillance based on behaviors that define the profession of journalism, we deserve the authoritarian state that follows.