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The DOJ pursues the "real criminal" in the NSA spying scandal

While the high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class, only the courageous whistle-blower is subject to criminal prosecution.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 04:07 AM

    Shooter 242

    Quite frankly, it's my opinion that adolescent desires for revenge and retribution are at work here, for slights real and imagined going all the way back to the 7-2 Supreme Court decision in 2000.

    You are completely wrong, at least as it applies to me. After 9/11 I was standing 100% shoulder-to-shoulder with Bush. He fumbled away my support, incrementally, painfully, in his long, slow steady parade of incompetent blunders.

    His approval rating track during that time - 90% to 29% - seems to suggest, uh, I'm not unique.

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