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The Salon article on massive surveillance and data mining by NSA reveals once more that the political elites in this country care nothing about constitutional principles. I also reviewed the transcript of the Amy Goodman intervies of Cass Sunstein and Glenn Greenwald. Mr Sunstein is an adviser to Senator Obama, who, as we all know, voted in favor of the bill granting immunity to the Telecomm companies. Sunstein reputedly is one of our leading constitutional lawyers. He finds nothing reprehensible in the kind of conduct that leads to massive spying by the government against its people. He avoids the issues raised by Greenwald by implying Greenwald is having an "emotional" response to the lawbreaking of the government and its corporate friends. I also read the article that lays out how AT&T is providing millions to the Democratic party to fund their conventions with the quid pro quo of getting "access" to Senators and Representatives and highly placed people in the Obama camp. I am sure that in the interest of giving the appearance of being "clean" Obama himself will not talk directly to AT&T. I am also quite sure that no direct contact is necessary for AT&T to get satisfaction for the money donated. After all Obama has already made a down payment by reversing his stand on the FISA bill. What is truly astounding is that Greenwald, having all of the information about how these games are played, continues to say he supports and will defend Obama. You can pile sleaze on top of sleaze in American politics, and the good liberal types will merrily support a system that is corrupt, degrading, and a direct attack on the essential principles of constitutional government. And of course they will continue to support the individuals-Obama-who are the current representatives of that corruption.
