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In reply to the discussion: If you're OK with revelations of NSA snooping, you're part of the problem [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)exonerated all the Big Communications Corps who had been spying on the American which, when this country was a Democracy, USED to be against the law. When the spying by Telephone Corps was revealed it was a SCANDAL. See how far down the slope we have gone since then? So much of a scandal that customers, under the THEN law, were entitled to monetary settlements. I, eg, was notified that the law permitted me to receive at least $1,000 as compensation. Or of course we all had the right to sue.
And then, our Representatives, in order to save the Telecoms, passed the FISA Bill making their crimes legal, RETROACTIVELY.
And we still think they are working for us!!
Obama of course had initially been outspokenly and eloquently opposed to such a bill, being a Constitutional lawyer and a Democratic candidate for president. Until the vote came up. Then he switched sides. That nearly lost him the election. But people like me, an Obama supporter who was shocked by his betrayal on that vote, would never have supported anyone who voted for Bush's war, so we had no other choice than to support him, but with far less enthusiasm and a lot more awareness of just how bad things had become in this country.