The Dark Side Of The Obama White House

Not only was the scale of Hoover's 'private files' different (something in the neighborhood of under 200 folders of documents on, mainly, high-level government officials/politicians), the light shined on government spying by Church committee generated legislation outlawing such government activities and intrusion.

The argument that I've been hearing from neocon and neolib supporters of these kinds of government abuse these past couple of decades ("This is very old news") is weak and idiotic.  Even if it had been true that it was "old news", so what?  How does that diminish the seriousness of it and affront to the Constitution?
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