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In reply to the discussion: Isn't it amusing to see all the Obama defenders ignoring the issue of mass surveillance? [View all]On the Road
(20,783 posts)There is a lot of character assassination of Snowden going on. But once you get away from that, the "diversion" seems to be all coming from the other side.
Dozens of posts have described the legal and constitutional basis of the searches. I might have seen one response to one of those posts which engages the legal and constitutional issues.
For example, talking about 4th amendment searches in regard to what the Supreme Court has for years considered business records is a diversion. There is supposed to be widespread surveillance of voice content, but the only specifics I hear about are purely overseas calls, which were always practiced and never controversial.
For anyone who has been paying attention to the issues surrounding electronic surveillance, this whole issue is sounding more and more like Benghazi in the sense that the more you look the less there is.