Facebook to Google Say NSA Spying Bill is Unacceptable

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30. Those very same thoughts are going through my head right now.

Surely it must be true to say of millions of others. Until now I've considered Snowden pretty much of a traitor. Now I empathize with him and I might someday come to think of him as a patriot.

Metadata is sort of a euphemism intended to deceive. Candidate Obama might have known the full reality of it all and he might not have. But there's that problem with his vote in the Senate to codify Bush's crimes and double down on the very program he promised in no uncertain terms to protect us from. Being charitable I will suppose he learned the full truth shortly after he assumed the Presidency. And yet his ensuing actions are not those of a person who is worthy of trust.

I'm thinking back to the 2008 campaign when he promised to renegotiate NAFTA. It was leaked out at the time that the Canadians expressed concern at his rhetoric. As the story went, one of his staffers told them not to take that seriously because it was just some make-believe pandering for the campaign and nothing would come of it. At the time I was certain that the story was bullshit. But I have been paying attention since then. By now I have no doubt that the story was true from start to finish.