It's Getting Close Folks... Greenwald, Naming Names....

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92. Exactly, Warpy, exactly.

Anyone who says this was all known during the Bush years is spinning wildly. We had some of the pieces and and many data points that didn't all connect. Snowden and Greenwald painted a much fuller and far more complete picture of what's really going on.

I met Obama at the beginning of 2004, when he was an unlikely member of a very large and influential crop of Democratic primary candidates for US Senate. To put it mildly, I was wowed. He seemed like a regular guy, with great ideas. The was more than six months before the keynote speech that rocked the progressive world. I was thrilled that he was a Constitutional Law professor because I believed he would steer the country out of Bushinc's trashing of the bill of rights. I have seldom been more disappointed than watching him push the constitutional limits well beyond Bush/Cheney.

I don't know how the BOG squad handles the cognitive dissonance. But it's a lot more comfortable to tilt at political windmills than to recognise the depressing truth.