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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
I understand what you are saying, but actually I think that this is better, in 2 ways.
1. It's keeps these things in the news over the long haul. People would have been shocked and appalled for a couple of months..... and then football season would have started and that would be that.
2. It allows people to watch the government lying and denying things to us..... and then be proven wrong a few months later. It is a nice way of highlighting how things actually work and showing people how their government deceive them so often.
Frankly, I do find it interesting that when you lie to a government official, you get charged with a crime, but when a government official lies, everybody shrugs, and says it's just politics, and nothing happens to them.
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I think people are shocked. Some of us are shocked because they never thought our government spies on other countries, as if it's new. Others are shocked because they completely misunderstand how involved the spying is and how it affects them - I still have yet to see where the NSA is spying on Americans without warrants.