[quote=briansd1]So Obama has not changed anything at the CIA. It’s business as usual. It’s kinda dissappointing but I understand the need to not rock the boat of war on terrorism while flighting other political battles. For most Americans it’s out of sight, out of mind.
Brian: So let me see if I follow your logic correctly here. “It’s kinda disappointing” when Obama does it, but reprehensible when Dubya did it?
This is what I find amazing. You talk about the Tea Partiers and “redneck” America and evangelicals and the willingness of those groups to get into lockstep with the GOP, especially the wingnut branch of the GOP, but casually dismiss a truly terrifying loss of civil liberties as “kinda disappointing”? Wow. How’s that cognitive dissonance working for you?
Any thoughts on someone of Daniel Ellsberg’s status and history commenting negatively on the situation? Note that I’m not calling out Obama, but remarking that we’ve seen a marked erosion of civil liberties going back to Vietnam and beyond.
