Liberals Can't Ignore the Verizon Phone Records Scandal (Al Gore outraged!)

ABC News ^ | June 6, 2013 | JORDAN FABIAN

[neverdem]

Obama's name was mentioned 8 times. Bush was mentioned only 4 times.

[Drango]

The left is revolting.

[cripplecreek]

When the IRS came for the tea party, they said nothing because they weren’t tea partiers....

[gov_bean_ counter]

The key distinction between Obama and Bush here is that the Obama administration appears to have used legal means to carry out domestic surveillance. Nope, no bias there.

[HerrBlucher]

regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing

Hardly matters since "wrongdoing" in the mind of the zero admin likely means criticizing emperor Obamba in any way shape or form.

[Eleutheria5]

Of course they are. It’s all those organic tofu shakes they eat. Isn’t Al Gore hot on the trail of Man-Bear-Pig? Why can’t he just shut up and continue hunting that monster? I hate having him agree with me.

[knarf]

How about all them gang bangers and THEIR telecommunications ?

The gummint din't want to know about drug deals and initiations and flash mobs and ...

???

[basil]

Ya got that right—they are revolting—LOL!

[housemom1952]

The left is revolting. Yes, yes they are!

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL! Good point. It looks like we might finally be getting somewhere.

[ncfool]

MY OBAMA PHONE IS NOT BUGGED.

[Dutch Boy]

Now we know why they were after the guns. With all of this going on I wonder if gun control will ever gain ground again.

[Carry_Okie]

This is Orwellian doublespeak at its finest:

The key distinction between Obama and Bush here is that the Obama administration appears to have used legal means to carry out domestic surveillance. In this instance, the administration sought approval for the phone records order through the FISA court.

"Legal means" of "domestic surveillance" via the FOREIGN Intelligence Surveillance Act?

Really?

[moovova]

Algore’s just upset be didn’t think of it first.

[willywill]

MY OBAMA PHONE IS NOT BUGGED.

speaking of which. my sister has been on disability for “depression” for 15 years, shes now 55.
she gets a check every month, subsidized housing, medicare AND Medicaid, food stamps, the Obama phone, food pantry in the housing project.
she could care less about all this, and, who do you think shes going to vote for? the take responsibility republicans, or the get everything free democrats?

[Peter W. Kessler]

“They stink on ice!”

(Mel Brooks, “History of the World, Part I”)

[Iron Munro]

Bush did it! Bush did it! Bush did it!

[TwelveOfTwenty]

The key distinction between Obama and Bush here is that the Obama administration appears to have used legal means to carry out domestic surveillance.

Right. Monitoring calls that go out of the country to known terrorists is illegal, while monitoring Americans' daily activities is OK.

[EarlyBird]

“The Guardian reported that the NSA issued an order that allows it to collect phone records from Verizon customers...”

This is wrong. Look at the leaked FISA warrant, the claimant was not the NSA, it was the DOJ, via the FBI.

Many of the reports are getting this wrong - this is Eric Holder at work again. NSA was the agency tasked with the collection - it wasn’t the agency requesting the warrant.

[left that other site]

And yet, with all their state-of-the-art surveillance, those pesky Tsarnayev brothers still manged to slip through.