Awww...C'mon guys. Stop acting so shocked.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

Look, I know everyone here is usually pretty goddamned smart. So why all this shock and aghastitude over the very real probability that this maladministration was peeking around in Obama's passport file?

Look, we know when they started sucking down every bit of phone and data traffic into the NSA: right after they walked in the door at 1600. Iraq was just some vaguely nettlesome 3rd world shithole to them, at the time. They did not have the 911 lever to move the "terra! terra! terra!" message anywhere. Not a catapult in sight. So why did they need such broad surveillance powers, so early into their tenure?

TO SPY ON POLITICAL OPPONENTS, THAT'S WHY!

This is them. This is what they do. Part and Parcel. Think back to the 2004 campaign. Think back to the almost magical strategic moves the pukes made. Think about the voting.

So please, stop with the feigned naivety. The only surprise is that something so blatant, so hamfisted and so illegal has not been exposed sooner.

Prediction: This maladministration will not pass peacefully into its long good night. I will not be surprised if the end of it is most entertaining, in the same way the fall of despots tend to be. For despots they truly are. Now, there can be no doubt of that.

[backscatter712]

1. Call me shocked, but not surprised.

Yeah, this is definitely within the Bushie MO...

[merh]

2. I'm shocked that they are shocked

I mean, what the hell do they think this admin has been doing with all the unlawful wire taps and why they seem like teflon.

[blm]

8. The few honest Dems left can't move matters because their brethren are being blackmailed

No wonder Gore and Kerry got so little backup from fellow Dems.

The more the Bush2 administration goes on the more criminal they prove themselves to be.

Is there a crime they won't commit to wield power? No.

[BeatleBoot]

3. It is their forte

Aghastitude aside.

[nashville_brook]

4. i'm surprised they were caught!

[fascisthunter]

5. Shocked that they got Caught the way they did

it's a beautiful thing. I bet the fascist freaks over at Freeperland are shitting themselves... they should.

[Ilsa]

6. I figure the fired employees will have long-running guest shots on FUX News

beginning next week. If one is female, she'll be getting the surgery they require to enhance her figure and face. If it is a guy, He'll get a lobotomy to become a regular host.

[DJ13]

7. Im shocked anyone would think this was done by Bush

They would have had people with the clearence to look at those records without setting off alarms so no one would have ever known about this.

No, this wasnt the Bush administration this time.

[redstateblues]

9. OK - so it was ....alien invaders? C'mon- they aren't that smart

Everything else they have done has been marked by incompetence- why would this be any different.

[DJ13]

10. Everything else they have done has been marked by incompetence

Really?

How many specific instances of actual spying has anyone been able to pin on the Bush administration out of how many millions of instances?

They wouldnt have used a low level contractor, not when they control the agency the info came from.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

13. Consider this:

CSC/Dyncorp employees were not reviewing the file for use within State. It was being done for some other person or persons who have a closer relationship to the company and contractor community in general. A benefactor, if you will.

Just a hypothesis, of course.

[hifalutin]

14. That's what I thought

since the bushies are the ones that reported it.
So, who else would have a motive or was it really just curiosity?

[malaise]

11. I'm neither shocked nor surprised

but I hope a few Democratic Senators are both. Maybe they'll grow spines and impeach these criminals.

[spanone]

12. not shocked, but impressed by their sheer audacity

[Skittles]

15. now they've got middle America WONDERING WHERE HE HAS BEEN

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED