QUESTION: What did you think the Patriot Act authorized?!?!

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22. Obama was cleared by a FISA cout that approved every single secret request in 2012

Obama's spy program has some legal protections that I don't believe should be in place.
Irrespective of that, Obama is morally and ethically wrong, and he's lied to the hundreds of millions of Americans who are the victims of his scheme. The lie is one of omission--he didn't want his hundreds of millions of targets to know they were targets. So he hid the largest spying program in history from the citizens whose lives he wanted to spy on. He's still doing this--it's just not quite as hidden anymore. Obama could have stopped this anytime he chose to. He has not. People like you are tasked with making all of this seem ok, but what you will never be able to understand is that cheap propaganda will never work with principled people when they feel their backs against a constitutional wall. It's not negotiable. It's not something that can be self-referentially linked away.

But take heart. There are enough people like you in the Democratic Party who don't mind a Soviet spy state--and the Republicans damn sure don't care. I think that in the end, you'll "win" your political battle. I hope you're happy with the results.