Colmes was on Fox saying Repubs were ok with it before with Bush, “so what is good for the goose is good for the gander.”.
Nobody knew this was going on. I thought it picked up key words, or targeted people. Not Everyone and everything.
“Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.”
That’s the MSM for ya.
Yes, and when it started, a lot of us, though uncomfortable, thought Bush was, relatively, a “small government guy” and that he would not take it too far. Plus I personally thought the program(s), since they did have to be renewed periodically, would wither eventually, as conservatives became increasingly skeptical, joining voices with some on the left. Can’t say that was a good judgement of mine...
Then Obama put the whole thing on steroids.