And what an evil person he is. He forced Obama to (euphemistically) missate (lie) about the porgram then beat a hasty retreat into Lawyerly talk (his latest statements regarding the leaks have been compared to those of Bush’s on his warrentless wire taping, by Democractic Pols) and now he and his entire administration are silent of the subject. Because, they are affraid of being caught in more misstatements.

The Director of the NSA is now talking about modifying the Metadata gathering program, that many here still claim don’t exist, and more than half of Obama’s supporters in the Senate don’t think that it works anyway.

I’ve got a question. Does the Fed Govt really want to catch him a put him on trial? If they caught him now the remaining materials he had are already scheduled for release so it wouldn’t do them any good. And if they brought him back he would get the best liberal attorneys, in the US, to defend him. To the vast majority of the left he is a hero. And the press LUV him - can you imagine him being on a Rachel Maddow show interview from jail. And it will eventually happen with the team of liberal attorneys that he will have.

I think that the govt is doing the old Kabuki show here. In public they will do what they must, bluff and blunder about catching him and putting economic sanctions on what-ever country takes him while in the back ground they shit thier pants trying to keep this from ever happening again. Tough to do when you have thousands of people with access to billions of $’s of technology spying on millions of people.

They will also try and make some changes to the programs and minor tweaks to the law while the programs die a death of a million cuts from the up coming lawsuits. Robert’s is actually doing Obama’s Justice Dept a favor. He just led the charge to effectively eliminate the Voting Rights act and the Justice Dept has had to redeploy attorneys that would otherwise had been handling those cases somewhere else. So now they are free to work defending the govt from US Citizens who are trying to recover thier 4th Amendment Rigths.

Ironic isn’t it - A few months ago, an African American President trained as a Constitutional Lawyer was just months ago deploying attorneys from his Justice Dept on cases to help protect the Voting Rights of Minorities.

Then, one SCOTUS case, where Roberts was in the majority, knocks down the Voting Rights act enough so that the Justice Dept has to redeploy attorneys for lack of work defending those minorites.

Then, a leak that shows Fed Govt activity actively participated in by that same president and facilitated by that same Chief Justice, and the Predident is now using those same attorneys to defend what about 50% of the US population believes is an intrusion into thier civil rights.

So who thinks that the voting rights act will be fixed before the end of Obama’s last term?

Who thinks that the NSA litigation will be finished before Obama’s last term?

One bullet point in his legacy is now clear.

The best Obama can make of this after he leaves office is to do what Bill Clinton did with DOMA. Distance himself from it and say his participation was a mistake.