“The New York Times points out that Mr. Obama’s currently promised reforms are insubstantial, and simply ‘tinker around the edges of the nation’s abusive surveillance programs.’ The cynics among us might think President Obama’s promises to institute reforms for enhanced privacy protections for the American people are simply a response to recent opinion polls showing that Americans are, for the first time since 9/11, more concerned about civil liberties abuses than terrorism. There’s an old saying: ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’ So, do we believe the president now?”
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4691
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