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Re:Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government by rhizome on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:04PM (#5868793)
Where are all the impeachments and swift punishments from Congress?

They're all in on it. Note today the GOP saying what interest they have in oversight, while Obama is just continuing what they supported under Bush and what Democrats are supporting under Obama. It's the same thing, the sides just switch based on elections, but the behavior of the government (all of them) remains the same. It's an anti-Constitutional racket.

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Re:Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government by crusso on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @12:42PM (#5869033)
Not that I approved of what happened under the Bush administration either, but it's important to note that it's not the same thing either.

The public was specifically told during the Bush administration that only specific international calls were being monitored to suspected terrorists overseas.

Now we have a blanket collection of all phone call data foreign and domestic. This is definitely worse than what was happening under Bush (as far as we were told).

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Re:Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government by LoganCale on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @01:06PM (#5869180)
As far as we can tell, blanket collection happened under Bush too, they just never publicly admitted it.
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