[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....

[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.

[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 ...

???

[FlingWingFlyer]

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

[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.

[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.

[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?

[Black Agnes]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.