If somebody like Edward Snowden had procured files in 2001 that the BushCo NSA was spying

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36. Lol, you forget that here and all over the Democratic forums, the vote to make legal

what was NOT legal in a blatant move to cover for the Bush criminals, caused so much outrage it nearly cost Obama the election when he did a complete flip flop and voted FOR what he had spoken out so eloquently against.

I don't know about you, but when a law is passed to save a crooked politician from prosecution, that is not a law, it is a blatant slap in the face to the Constitution and the American people. It makes a mockery of the rule of law, which is EXACTLY how it was viewed by Democrats across the board at the time.

Some of us don't flip flop on principles. I would never, ever use that phony, bought and paid for 'law' to defend the Bush surveillance policies that we were told would be 'changed' if only we would 'vote Democratic'.

In fact whenever I see any Democrat pointing to that POS 'law', I find it hard to believe I am actually witnessing people having the temerity to expect anyone to take them seriously.

It cast a shadow over the 2008 election. I was an Obama supporter from early on. I was certain he would vote against 'law' and was shocked when I found out he had. Then we had to listen for months, day after day, to all the excuses as to why he had done so. But at that point, we had no other choice so hoped his promises to 'fix' these policies would come to pass.

Please do Democrats who worked so hard to try to stop that 'save Bush from prosecution' amendment from passing, by not insulting them by using it now to protect the NSA from the consequences that Bush should have faced had it not been for Congress betraying their oaths of office and saving him.

So sick of all of this. The twisting and turning to try to defend the indefensible.

Bush SHOULD have prosecuted, along with his gang of War Criminals.

But the passage of that amendment to the FISA Bill was a foreboding of what was to come. Rather than apply the Rule of Law which was richly deserved, which have prevented these gross abuses that are now happening, I see people here actually USING one of the most blatant abuses of Congress' power, to defend what we all supposedly so opposed.

And finally, no, it is not because they legalized Bush's crimes. It is because there is Democrat in the WH. I have respect for honesty. I would rather hear someone say 'look, I hate this Amendment too, Bush should have been nailed back then, but now we have a Democrat in the WH and if we oppose these policies it will harm him'.

They will do this again. They got away with it once and now even have people USINGi it who should still be outraged over it. So the deterioration continues, speeded up now and with bi-partisan support. What a dream for the War Criminals. THEY certainly haven't changed their 'principles'. They are supporting the NSA loudly and publicly and it is painful to see them have the backing of Democrats. Cheney's gleeful support and praise for Obama, his implication that finally Democrats see the light. Unbelievable.