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Boot-stomping govt claims citizen spying never happened then pouts Congress knew all along; Congress denies. Our obtuseness = their strength...
Palin then links to a page on Breitbart which discusses the upcoming opening of the new Utah Data Center, and refers to it as "Obama's Bat Cave."
As I have mentioned before I am none too happy about all of this data gathering either, however I resent like hell idiots and Right Wingers (Is there a difference?) like Sarah Palin jumping onto this issue now, when they were completely silent about it when George Bush started rounding up our data in the first place.
In fact Palin's running mate, John McCain, reversed his initial discomfort with the program back in May of 2008, and gave the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act his wholehearted endorsement.
I don't remember VP candidate Palin bitching about our privacy back then, Does anybody else?
To be clear these Right Wing hypocrites, of which Sarah Palin may be the best example, do not give a shit about our privacy, or domestic spying, or the NSA. All that they care about is that this is another opportunity to attack the President and conveniently ignore the fact that he only inherited a program that one of their own secretly put into place back in 2002.
Let's face it, if these facts were coming out during a second McCain term, or (Heaven forbid) a Sarah Palin term in office, or even a Mitt Romney first term, there would not be ONE Right wing conservative Republican that would say a damn thing about it. Not one!
If anybody should be upset right now it is those of us on the Left who hoped that by electing Barack Obama we would see an end to some of these programs, not the Right who were all for phone taps and data mining. You know back when they thought a white guy was going to be doing it.
