This is a big old set-up on Obama’s part to make the NSA problems all fall in the lap of George Bush, and then Obama just becomes a victim “just like the rest of us....”
Agreed. Blame Bush and the Patriot Act.
And even if true, the Obama administration knew of it and expanded it for five years.
And, probably, used it against a sitting Supreme Court Justice to blackmail him into writing the for and against rulings for Obamacare.