The important questions - by Tom Tomorrow

[baldguy]

64. As if Greenwald's columns were anything but opinion.

And your comments show that you don't even understand the issues involved. The words "illegal" and "unconstitutional" have very specific meanings. When applies to a law duly enacted by a legislature and confirmed by the executive, it means that a court in with the proper jurisdiction must have acted to rule as such. This has not been done with any of the programs involved here.

And the reason metadata isn't privileged is because it's not unique. Just because YOU don't understand the term doesn't automatically mean that its "illegal" and "unconstitutional". You might think your 2005 Toyota Camry is a special car, but millions of them were manufactured. When a cop records that it's in a particular intersection at a particular time, that doesn't constitute an illegal search. It's the same with the metadata the phone companies and internet carriers record.

And in my view, the Democratic Party is dedicated to the truth - which is decidedly not the place Ed Snowden and his sycophants are coming from. If you can't deal with that, maybe you should go find somewhere else to play.

Chicken Little is almost 2500 yrs old, but he's alive & well in the 21st century.