Where Is the Democratic Outrage Over Spying on Americans?

[mystery-ak]

Where Is the Democratic Outrage Over Spying on Americans?
Thomas J. Farnan
2/17/2018 12:01:00 AM - Thomas J. Farnan

Under the Constitution, there are three branches of government.  The FBI is not one of them.  Instead, the FBI was created to assist the president in his job to enforce laws.  Members of the FBI are called “agents” because of their agency relationship with the president.

During World War II and then the Red Scare, the FBI's mission expanded to gather intelligence against spies.  Here, too, the FBI was assisting the Commander in Chief.  Even the word “intelligence” connotes this fact.  The purpose was to help the president act intelligently against domestic threats.

The FBI’s domestic intelligence gathering function caused understandable discomfort on the left.  In 1970s apocrypha, President Nixon couldn’t wait to get the goods on undesirables like the Smothers Brothers.  Or so we were told by the Smothers Brothers, back when the FBI's mission creep cast it as the Gestapo.

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[EasyAce]

Apparently, too many Democrats and enough Republicans think spying on Americans is no big deal.

And too many Americans still fall back upon such fatuous nonsense as, "Well, if you haven't done anything wrong, blah-blah, woof-woof . . . "

I'm never entirely certain which is the more grave condition---the political class who think it's no big deal for the State to spy on her subjects,
or the subjects who think it's no big deal that the State can and does compromise their freedom.

[Bigun]

Apparently, too many Democrats and enough Republicans think spying on Americans is no big deal.

And too many Americans still fall back upon such fatuous nonsense as, "Well, if you haven't done anything wrong, blah-blah, woof-woof . . . "

I'm never entirely certain which is the more grave condition---the political class who think it's no big deal for the State to spy on her subjects,
or the subjects who think it's no big deal that the State can and does compromise their freedom.

@EasyAce

Would you consider saying something about anything other than baseball with which I can argue?  This is getting boring.

[EasyAce]

@EasyAce

Would you consider saying something about anything other than baseball with which I can argue?  This is getting boring.

@Bigun
I have to keep reminding myself that near-constant agreement isn't always exciting or sexy.