2013-06-08, 12:48 AM
This isn't news. Bush encouraged heavy data-mining of domestic call records with focus on AT&T and Verizon. Not to mention the warrantless surveillance controversy. They go on camera and offer the pragmatist's apology which runs as follows, 'In order to preserve the greater rights of this country such as liberty and safety there needs to be a sacrifice of lesser freedoms such as privacy which are violated respectively in order to offer greater protection to the citizens as a whole.' Then they pretend to downscale the entire program or '86' it, only to start giving it more steam or to completely recreate it without letting anyone know about it.