Obama's New FBI Chief Approved Bush's NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Scheme

[NOVA_Dem]

37. Why won't you link to the article Glenn Greenwald wrote yesterday?

Greenwald said that Comey approved torture and approved the version of the NSA program that everyone here was correctly offended by and called unconstitutional.

Obama's new FBI chief approved Bush's NSA warrantless wiretapping scheme
James Comey becomes just the latest symbol of the Obama legacy: normalizing what was very recently viewed as radical
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/30/james-comey-fbi-bush-nsa

it was Comey who gave his legal approval to enable that NSA eavesdropping program to spy on Americans without warrants: the same program that produced so much outrage and scandal when revealed by the NYT. How can any progressive who spent the Bush years vehemently denouncing that domestic spying program as the symbol of Bush radicalism and lawlessness now cheer when the lawyer who approved it is about to be put in charge of the FBI?

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he was the lawyer who legally approved that warrantless NSA program that the New York Times revealed that caused so much scandal. And he was part of the process that legalized the torture techniques used by the Bush administration. How can that possibly not disqualify him from running the FBI in the eyes of progressives who claimed to find all of that so atrocious and such an assault on all that is dear and good in the world?