In the past five and a half years Barack Obama has probably generated a level of paranoia among Americans not even experienced during the Nixon administration. At least Nixon hired some criminals to do his dirty work and didn't have the entire federal bureaucracy doing it. (Nixon tried to draft the bureaucracy to do illegal business, and the fact that they declined to do it had less to do with strong ethics than allegiance to a different political party.)
Anyway, the suspicions of Obama's wrong doing is strenghtened when he professes ignorance. He's proud of saying that he learned of things in the newspaper just like everyone else. Take a look at this from Fox News: 'We did not know': 9 times the Obama administration was blindsided. (Via Betsy's Page.)
The nine are these:
1. Islamist militants gaining in Iraq
2. Russia's intervention in Ukraine
3. NSA spying on foreign leaders
4. VA waiting list scandal
5. IRS targeting scandal
6. HealthCare.gov failure
7. DOJ obtaining AP phone records
8. Fast and Furious scandal
9. Air Force One flyover in Manhattan
So with all the surveillance going on in America, in particular but not exclusively by the NSA, one has to wonder what it's all worth to the country if the people collecting it can't interpret it, or if they can, they have a boss who had rather read about it in the newspaper.
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