C'mon people. Use your noggin. Obama knew, and approved of it.

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24. Do I have to care?

This NSA spying thing is a hangover from the last administration. Does that in any way absolve the current president? No, but its getting a lot of attention. People are outraged.

If ever anything is going to be done about it - the outrage has to reach critical mass. If the outrage reaches a point that the president either has to 'do something about it' or 'say that it is ok'. I hope he does something about it. I also expect that he will do something about it - when right wingers start crying for him to do something about it.

The president is in a precarious position here. The economy is still too fragile to push for defense cuts, and defense is about the the only thing tea party clowns will fund unquestionably.

The president will wait until its popular to dismantle the NSA (think LGBT rights) and when it is, he will take steps toward reducing defense spending (actually congress is the entity that will reduce the spending).

If he were to take steps right now, that's all we would hear (and more importantly all of our right wing relatives would hear) is how the president is gutting our ability to fight terra - ism.

Sure, he was probably told - that doesn't change what he can, or can't do.