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In reply to the discussion: Manning’s Biggest Revelation of All [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Members of Congress knew that the NSA was overreaching and doing something wrong. They may know of war crimes, but they can't say anything about the extent of the NSA spying or do anything about the war crimes.
Doing something about the spying and the war crimes are, sad to say, Obama's very difficult job. Congress could pass laws limiting the discretion of the executive branch with regard to say, spying, but members of Congress cannot even speak out about the spying.
The president, whether Bush or Obama is the commander in chief of the military and directs the intelligence bureaus. Obama is in a very difficult position, so I don't criticize him too much for not being able to right terrible crimes to our nation's Constitution and reputation, but he is the only person with the power to stop what is going on.