hi from europe, i "love" watching "democrats" apologise for fascism!

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176. Uh-oh! That is a bad sign for sure, being on the same side as Trump.

But something about the timing of this whole Snowden/NSA stuff doesn't quite seem right. Coming on the heels of all these other so called scandals makes me think that there may be others behind the scenes orchestrating the re-emergence of a this six-year-old story.

Now I'm certainly not in favor of a country spying on it's own citizens, and the Obama administration certainly should have replaced all the repug moles and ditched the Patriot Act crap left over from Cheney/Bush, but many of us here have posted before how repugs seem to gin up scandals in the second term of dem presidents to keep "shit" going so:

a. the administration is bogged down in trying to defend itself from scandal after scandal, month after month (we've
seen this movie before — it's called "Bill Clinton's Second Term&quot

b. nothing legislatively gets done about the economy or jobs

c. this in turn takes the spotlight off the repugs/party of "no" obstructionism

d. if the scandals can be extended long enough it helps the repugs in the mid-terms and maybe even 2016 when
Hillary is sure to be the favorite to win (maybe not if she/the dems can be stained enough by this)

Anyway, I say let's watch this closely and see how it plays out. Like I said, something smells about this whole "Snowden being a lone wolf-acting out of patriotism after only three months at this highly sensitive job thing" (wonder how he got the job in the first place, and then become "radicalized" in just 3 months).

If it turns out that his motives are entirely pure, fine, but let's get real, that's hardly ever the case.