Bernie Sanders on Government Spying
#at=22It is hard to be more clear on whether the government should or should not be collecting data on millions of US citizens. Bernie Sanders is unequivocally against it.
So for those who are recently sporting Bernie Sanders avatars but are known to regularly speak out against Progressives and for center-right positions at all times, please don't insult the rest of us by adopting Bernie Sanders avatars. Some of us generally respect the man and it is nauseating to his name dragged through the mud on posts that SUPPORT the spying.
Bernie never would do so and he would vomit if he knew that his image was, in any way, linked to those who do.
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& Rec !!!
And I thought my Senators were Boxer and Feinstein.
Took Sanders over Feinstein.
Although more than 40 years have passed since W. Mark Felt (then known only as Deep Throat) spilled his secrets to Robert Woodward in a dark Washington carpark, he still remains the most famous whistleblower of all time. The details of the case are well known. For many years, the administration of Richard Nixon had been involved in illegal break-ins, covert operations, and campaign violations. But if it hadn’t been for Felt, these events may have remained secret forever. His inside information on the Watergate Scandal helped Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein publish a series of damning articles in the Washington Post and indirectly led to the destruction of Richard Nixon’s presidency. But why did he do it? Associate Director of the FBI at the time, some have speculated that he was upset at being passed over for the Directorship after J.Edgar Hoover died, while others have claimed he was a profoundly moral man who felt he had a patriotic duty to expose the malfeasance of a corrupt Administration. Whatever his reasons, W. Mark Felt’s leaks did no less than change the way the American public viewed its most powerful institutions. From that time forward, the American people would no longer implicitly trust the president, and a deep culture of pessimism continues to surround almost every aspect of political life in the United States. All because W. Mark Felt told someone the truth. 
is akin to defending secret torture if the Congress were to decide that it was acceptable under certain situations for national security.
Imagine how preposterous that would be!
He's just been lying in wait for the last 25 years for his moment to spring!
Yes, that was
