Who needs Tip ‘n Ronnie?
by digby
Jeb: I would say the best part of the Obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs, the NSA being enhanced. Advancing this — even though he never defends it, even though he never openly admits it, there has been a continuation of a very important service, which is the first obligation, I think of our national government is to keep us safe. And the technologies that now can be applied to make that so, while protecting civil liberties are there. And he’s not abandoned them, even though there was some indication that he might.
There’s that bipartisan comity we’ve all been waiting for.
If there’s one thing that people on both sides of the aisle agree upon it’s that the government should spy on its own citizens for their own good. Warms your heart it does.
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