Republicans (with few exceptions) mocked & scorned civil libertarians for years who warned the surveillance bills they kept voting for would enable abuse. They called us Terrorist Lovers for saying this.
Hard to have much sympathy as they now prance around as privacy defenders.
Hard to have much sympathy as they now prance around as privacy defenders.
Just last year, the vast majority of the GOP caucus joined a Dem minority (led by Pelosi and Schiff) to approve new domestic spying powers while rejecting safeguards. They are the authors of the framework they are now crying about theintercept.com/2018/01/12/the…
Basically, the GOP loved unlimited domestic spying when they thought it was only used against Muslims and domestic dissent groups. They only care now that it's been used as a political weapon against them theintercept.com/2014/07/09/und…
