For some, the goal is to portray the program as a crime

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70. Yep. We can hate it as much as we want but it's not illegal

It has Congressional oversight.

It is supported by large majorities of the American public AND both houses of Congress. Even polls taken directly after the Snowden leak and the week long shriek-fest immediately afterwards showed that almost half of Americans still support the program. Once the administration puts out the numbers on attacks that have been "thwarted" by this program, that number will likely rise.

This "it's illegal" and "it's unconstitutional" arguments are as pointlessly stupid as the frothing that "Obama=Bush." A public awareness program needs to be created to get Congress to repeal this law. That's the only way this is going to get changed. Once again Obama will have to put his magic wand away and people will actually have to do some damn work.