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In reply to the discussion: Obama's "Spy on Everyone" policy was already public? My *ass*, it was. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)were OUTRAGED as we should be.
Sorry, try again yourself. What happened when that scandal broke? This president spoke out against the violations of rights and promised to correct them if he was elected.
But as the outrage increased against Bush, Congress jumped into action. They passed a bill known as the FISA Bill, which made what was illegal when Bush broke the Fisa Law, legal. Yes, Congress including some Democrats, one of them being this president who went back on his original stand to vote for it.
So, yes, what we knew was that an egregious act was taken by Congress to protect the Bush criminals after the broke the law and it was exposed by a Whistle Blower.
However, since then we elected a Democratic Administration who had promised to restore the rights taken away by Bush. Some people warned that we were being misled after Obama voted for the vile FISA Bill but we thought, naively as we now know, that he would return to his original and later position on restoring the rule of law and end Bush's spying on the American people.
Having elected a Democrat, despite being very aware of the FISA Bill that made legal what had been illegal to protect Bush et al, we felt confident that things would be begin to change. We were wrong as he told us himself today 'I have kept Bush policies'. Yes, he has and he has appointed Republicans to positions of power that we wanted to go to DEMOCRATS. That is why vote for DEMOCRATS. If we wanted Republicans, we would have voted for Republicans.
The whole thing is disgusting.