[0.E.O]

What is it with supposedly like-minded people who take one little comment and make a false doctrine out of it?

I don't see anywhere in that press release where Cruz comes out and says the programs were wrong and that the intrusion into people's privacy was wrong. He just said Obama is misusing the authority granted him under the law. Well if the powers are such that the legislation allows them to be misused by one administration then what's to stop them from being abused by a future one? You can't pick and choose which laws apply to which administration. Long and short of it is that if these powers are open to abuse by one president then they shouldn't be allowed to any president.

[uncommonsense]

"I don't see anywhere in that press release where Cruz comes out and says the programs were wrong and that the intrusion into people's privacy was wrong."

I underlined it.

[uncommonsense]

We have discovered over the past few months an ongoing pattern of wanton disregard not only for Americans' privacy, but for the truth

What does "wanton disregard" mean? Good? OK? Necessary?