Readers know that I think the Republicans are borderline crazy on Benghazi. I believe the “scandal” at the I.R.S. is that the agency did not blow the whistle on blatantly partisan groups that receive tax exempt status, not that it examined obviously political Tea Party groups. I believe that the President did not personally know that his minions were threatening the Fox News reporter and monitoring other reporters who were just doing their jobs.
However, and this is a very big however, the President did know that the F.B.I. and the National Security Agency compelled Verizon to turn over all calls that went through its system. He knew that N.S.A. has also been monitoring internet communications. We are told the agencies don’t listen in to the calls, but they know to whom the calls are made and how long they last. Since they have not been truthful in the past, why should we believe they don’t listen in?
All of this in the name of “national security,” the same excuse the Nixon Administration used during the Watergate impeachment proceedings. And I don’t care if this activity was a result of the Patriot Act and was started by the Bush administration. Bush has not been president for the last four and a half years. The President now in office said in 2007 that the Bush administration “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.” That is still a false choice.
Incidentally, I am assuming that the F.B.I. and the N.S.A. are recording this post as well. And if you guys are recording it, f*** you.
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