> I find it strange to be accused of being manipulated by one party. Indeed. From your point of view, you have gathered plenty of information, weeded out the c

> I find it strange to be accused of being manipulated by one party. Indeed. From your point of view, you have gathered plenty of information, weeded out the crap, and applied careful logic to the good information. From your point of view, you have come to solid conclusions about the NSA and you do not like them. Any thinking person sees the obvious contradictions between spying and democracy, right? But why did you spend all that effort on the NSA issue? Their domestic surveillance has been an open secret for decades. If we go back to the OSS and its precursors, for the better part of a century. Out of the universe of thousands of current issues, matters of importance that have a public dialog going, why has this particular moldy old scandal been dug up and kept on the front page of CNN for weeks? Because somebody is keeping it there. You say that the Democrats stand to lose greatly from the NSA scandal. Not nearly as much as from the IRS debacle! They are terrified that if the IRS debacle stayed in the public consciousness, the Tea Party would be able to call a one month tax strike. That would cause a Social Security payment cycle to be delayed and destroy the DNP forever. Literally dedtroy, they would have the credibility of Whigs or Soviets afterwards. Hence the absolute desparation to plaster the news with anything, everything except IRS. We can also expect to see a parade of insane wars as distractions. Libya, Syria, who's next?