Digby: "When the Free Press Becomes Equivalent to an Enemy of the State..."

[HardTimes99]

59. I'd love to take an Occam's Razor approach to this and say, well, deep down,

Obama's a corporatist or some such.

Against my natural proclivity for Occam, though, is this little jewel that seems to have slipped under most people's radar:

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/06/21/former-intelligence-analyst-obama-was-wiretapped-by-nsa-in-2004/

Because of all the breaking news in McClatchy about the much-wider 'Insider Threat Program,' I have not yet had a chance to circle back to the FDL story. Consider it merely a working hypothesis for now, an attempt to answer your question of 'why'.

Put briefly, starting in around 2003-04, when Obama began to achieve national prominence, the Bush boys (many of whom now pervade our current security services) got the drop on him or Michelle. Bill Ayers? Reverend Wright? Some other unknown skeleton from the Obamas' closet? I have no idea how such things are done at that level of power, but one might imagine a special session with Candidate Obama when he is told, "You can say x and do y, but must never do z."

I'll leave it at that for now, but if it has legs, this FDL story trumps almost all others (although that Insider Threat story is a doozy and a DUZY).