CNN anchor Piers Morgan says President Obama has compiled a worse record than George W. Bush on civil liberties. That goes without saying. And now even Obama apologist are having to admit as much. The most salient lingering question: How much worse has Obama been?
How much secret surveillance has he conducted, spying and prying into the lives of everyday Americans? How many witch hunts have been pursued against his political enemies? How many laws have been twisted or trampled by this arrogant and aloof Administration?
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Par for the course, it took an overseas news outlet to bust the Obama Administration for its sweeping abuse of the Patriot Act and the civil liberties of all Americans. Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the story about the top secret program surrounding the National Security Agency’s procurement of the telephone records of every Verizon customer, joined CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday. Greenwald detailed his report and noted how members of Congress are in revolt over their inability to oversee the program.
“It’s always been assumed that, under the Patriot Act, if the government had even the suspicion that you were involved in a crime or terrorism they could get a lot of information about you,” Greenwald began. He said that this order is unique because it is not directed at an individual, it is indiscriminately directed at every one of Verizon’s 120 million plus subscribers.
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