This blog has gotten [in part] so depressing.
Day after day, new revelations emerge, scores of allied countries, their leaders and citizens are appalled and angered - yes, these leaders are frequently hypocrites, but what of the citizens? And what of we Americans, who have done nothing wrong, who might happen to have loved ones overseas? What about our rights?
How about one acknowledgment that we had a right to know about what is being done with our tax dollars, and that its way beyond the scope of what was reasonably needed to protect us?
You can still continue to excoriate Greenwald, who is arrogant and hard to love, admittedly, but to hell with the source; what about us? Were you happier not knowing? And can we stop this relentless nonsense about how they need a warrant? So did Hoover. If the information is available - and it was available to a high school drop out, Snowden, and tens of thousands of other - it will be abused. Do we really have to prove that obvious point anymore?