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The response is going to look something like "because we don't know the full extent 'related to the NSA surveillance programs,' we cannot make any such promises
by gburt 13y ago
The response is going to look something like "because we don't know the full extent 'related to the NSA surveillance programs,' we cannot make any such promises" mixed in with some reasonable sounding stuff about due process and rule of law.
- a3n 13y agoAnd so it's going to be an empty response, as cynically predicted. Which is good. This is a system that the White House devised itself, and like so many statements and positions it took, it never thought it was actually going to be held accountable. What they didn't realize is that it actually will serve a useful pupose. The sooner and more the WH makes cynical non-responses to these petitions, and is caught in lie after hypocritical lie, the sooner the majority of people will hold the WH, Congress and the government itself in open contempt. Then we can get on to the next stage, whatever that's going to be.