[Hardastarboard]

"counselor"

I prefer the Italian word, which is more appropriate - "consigliere"

[relentlessly]

Sure. His actual focus will be to go through the data to look for political advantage opportunities.

[EagleUSA]

Putting a vampire in charge of a blood bank....
More corruption. Never stops.

[C210N]

I hope Podesta is not spending too much money on this investigation. He could write it right now:

INNOCENT of all charges. Now, continue and March Forward!

[oldbrowser]

There is plenty of justification for NSA to have tools to protect America. The problem is that tools in the hands of a government that has repeatedly lied and abused their position of trust will surely be abused again. They have shown a propensity to hire dishonest people at every level from navigators to their cabinet and advisory level employees.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It was a classic Obama set-piece, designed to demonstrate that he understands both sides of a complex argument, while delegating responsibility to third parties

Exactly the qualities you want in a POTUS and CIC. SARC/sarcsarcsarcsarcsarc

[SpaceBar]

If you like your NSA surveillance, you can keep your NSA surveillance. Period.

[capydick]

[moovova]

“Mr. Fox...you will be in charge of this chicken coop.”

[Maelstorm]

Isn’t this the same guy who was caught smuggling documents in his pants?

[Maelstorm]

Nope that was Sandy Berger. Sorry I lose track of all the scum associated with the Clintons. :-)

[M Kehoe]

Without looking, I believe Podesta is on the List. If not, he should be added.

5.56mm

[Datom]

What obama really said in his 45 minute speech; We spied on most of the world, its leaders and all of the people of the United States, we got caught, so let me be perfectly clear, I’m going to hire two more democrats, one at NSA and one at the WH to provide me more cover and appoint Podesta to do an in depth study to cover my ass.

[tomkat]

This should be worth another 10 points of blood pressure elevation.
  (to anyone who actually believes that any of the maggØt's kabuki theater will ever amount to anything)

The only thing that'll ever get the bastards' attention is when a whole bunch of 'em start 'mysteriously' disappearing.

[what's up]

Podesta is Soros' main man.

So now we will have Soros in charge of overseeing how our main intel operates. Fabulous.

[nascarnation]

List of supporters to John’s “progressive” action group:

Corporate Supporters in Alphabetical Order (2013)

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Albright Stonebridge Group
American Beverage Association
American Iron and Steel Institute
America’s Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP
Anglo American
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Bank of America
Blackstone
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Engine Message & Media
Blue Shield of California*
BMW of North America
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Citigroup
The Coca-Cola Company
Comcast NBCUniversal
Covanta Energy
CVS Caremark Inc.
Daimler
DeVry Education Group
Dewey Square Group
Discovery
DISH Network
Downey McGrath Group, Inc.
DRS Technologies
Eli Lilly and Company
Facebook
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas
GE
Genworth Financial
The Glover Park Group LLC
Goldman Sachs
Google*
Health Care Service Corporation
The Ickes and Enright Group
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
McLarty Associates
Microsoft Corporation
Monitor Deloitte
Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA*
MyWireless.Org
Northrop Grumman
Pearson
PepsiCo
PG&E Corporation
Quest Diagnostics
Samsung Electronics America
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, or TECRO
Tata Group of Companies
Time Warner Inc.
T-Mobile
Toyota Motor North America
Visa Inc.
Walmart
Wells Fargo

http://www.americanprogress.org/about/our-supporters/

[Paine in the Neck]

That’s like Lenin appointing Trotsky to investigate Felix Dzerzhinsky’s Cheka. Totally legit...

[GraceG]

[ballplayer]

You might as well have put George Soros,James Carville,Debbie blabbermouth Schultz,Sandy Berger,Vlademir Putin,or Kim Jong UN in charge

[tips up]

Where the xxxx is Congress on this? What happened to Congressional oversight? Hearnings, select committees, etc?

I’m sure a left wing hack like Podesta will craft a report that blames Republicans for this.

What good is having a Repub majority in Congress if they offer no opposition or oversight?