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

ABC News ^ | June 6, 2013 | JORDAN FABIAN

[max americana]

Al Cereal Gore is outraged? Funny how that makes sense when he sits on the Apple board.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Algore didn’t seem too bothered by it when the Clinton regime was monitoring all communications with the NSA’s Echelon program.

[RockyTx]

are Verizon phone-number records,
available for divorce disputes?

if not, why not?

[Hoodat]

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

No, the key distinction between Obama and Bush is that the Bush Administration did not carry out warrantless domestic surveillance. They only intercepted data crossing outside the country. Besides, no FISA judge is going to issue an indiscriminate warrant that allows wholesale surveilling without regard to target or probable cause.

[indthkr]

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

A blanket statement based on absolutely zero backing evidence.

Does The Left really think that with Nancy Pelosi in control of the House Intel. committee up and until 2010, that the Bush admin. could have really implemented a multi-billion dollar illegal Government Surveillance program without Democrats in the loop?

[Black Agnes]

I’m betting Al Gore’s name isn’t on that list of 10K numbers never to be recorded from.

[lepton]

Most people will catch on the “legal” and contrast with illegal, where the key differentiating factor is foreign/domestic.

We need to be very careful as to specifics. There is a major effort by those seeking to stop actal anti-terrorism efforts to muddle legitimate and neccessary data collection with inherently invasive acts.

[lepton]

**tweeted former vice president Al Gore. “Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?”**

No, Gore, more than just you is obscene and outrageous.

[Carry_Okie]

The real way to deal with terrorism is a bounty system, with stiff penalties for false arrest or harassment, for which the national militia is ideally suited.

Just think, the practice would fulfill that "well-regulated" aspiration in the 2A quite nicely. :-)

[upsdriver]

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

No, the key distinction is that the Bush Administration was engaged in tracking down muslim terrorists while Obama is digging up dirt on Americans who oppose his agenda.

[Westbrook]

> The left is revolting.

Yes, and despicable, too.

[Linda Frances]

Someone must have recorded Gore telling the global warming scientist how to alter the truth. He sounds angry and scared.

[familyop]

They should go back to the Clintons and the ‘90s for the roots of such programs.

[VerySadAmerican]

If Al Gore is outraged it makes me wonder. Sounds like BS to me.