
“For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the last 48 hours has delivered news of the worst kind — a flood of new information that has washed away any lingering doubts about where President Obama and his party stand on civil liberties, full stop. Glenn Greenwald’s exposure of the NSA’s massive domestic spy program has revealed the entire caste of current Democratic leaders as a gang of civil liberty opportunists, whose true passion, it seems, was in trolling George W. Bush for eight years on matters of national security. ‘Everyone should just calm down,’ Senator Harry Reid said yesterday, inhaling slowly. That’s right: don’t panic.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-on-americans
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