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[ConservativeDemocrat]

30. I have a different viewpoint as to why this is a "scandal"

It's because some people are addicted to scandals. They want them. They need them. Without them, they might reevaluate why they blame the government for everything bad that has gone wrong in their lives.

The press caters to these people.

Obama though hasn't given people any real scandals. He has a lovely wife, who he most assuredly sleeps with. His foreign policy has been an unbridled success for all but warmongers. And despite GOP opposition, he's even managed to help get the economy back on track.

So what to do if you don't have a real scandal, and you're starved for one? Why make one up, of course!


Republicans have done this with Benghazi. Liberals have done this with the NSA. Both are hilariously absurd. As one British comedian put it, "So let me get this straight. The scandal is that... spies are spying?"

I certainly agree that the NSA could do with some further reform. And I expressly agree with you that they've fallen into a very typical big-data trap of thinking that collection equals analysis. But remember too that they don't have the ability to just willy-nilly go scanning US citizen email without some probable cause - even if it exists in their databases.

And for all the whining, you still have ten thousand times greater chance of getting your rights violated in a typical traffic stop than by any passing NSA scan (of debatable legality) of your email for an Iraqi-terrorist phone number.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community