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David Corn: NSA Spying: An Obama Scandal?

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With the revelation that the National Security Agency is sweeping up the telephone records of Americans suspected of no wrongdoing, though, the Obama gang may finally have a real scandal on its hand--not a scandal of wrongdoing or unethical conduct, but one of government overreach. Yet, as White House officials are already pointing out to reporters, if this is a scandal, it is a bipartisan scandal, for Congress has approved this wide-ranging, super-secret, domestic surveillance program. At issue is the disclosure of a highly classified court order--issued by a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court--that forced a Verizon subsidiary to hand over on a daily basis to the NSA call logs for all of its customers.
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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