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Re:Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' c... by BoorishBears on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:57PM (#24359553)
It is plain as day the current language in the comment is implying Obama was behind it. A clarification to that is pretty far from a nitpick.
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Re:Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' c... by Igelau on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @08:27PM (#24359713)
Polarizing much? When you get to "or the CIA torturers" back up and find the verb. It's just poor sentence structure.
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Re:Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' c... by versteegen on Thursday September 03, 2020 @01:31AM (#24361026)
I can see your argument that it's ambiguous, but the wrong reading is the most natural one to me. Clarification is justified.
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Re:Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' c... by kelnos on Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:59AM (#24362106)
Just another data point: I read it same as the parent, that the original text was referring to the fact that the Obama administration didn't prosecute the torturers (regardless of when it occurred).

It seemed obvious to me that the point being made was that neither party seems to care to hold wrongdoers in government accountable for their actions.

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