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BlueCheese

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1. Poor window dressing.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2014, 05:43 PM

Jan 2014

It's like the way they reacted to Bush's wiretapping program-- making it legal, with some limits for show.

I don't know what happened to Candidate Obama on this issue. But President Obama has been a gigantic disappointment on this. I would never have thought that he'd be carrying so much water for the surveillance state.

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