So, funny story… You know how a few years back when the New York Times and others published a story about the NSA wiretapping phones without warrants and the Bush administration said it wasn’t a big deal because they weren’t spying on Americans? Remember when, a few months ago, a group of conservative and moderate Democrats (including Obama) broke party ranks to join Republicans in passing a bill that authorized such wiretapping and gave retroactive immunity to the telecom companies, preventing any future investigation of what happened? Remember how those Democrats said that it was all right because Bush wasn’t spying on Americans? Like I said, there’s a funny story. Well, maybe not quite so funny if you find the idea of the U.S. government spying on Americans without warrants to be at all disturbing. If you fall into that latter category then you clearly have no sense of humor and you probably don’t want to read the new report out from ABC News.
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