> If the president were still GWB when all this stuff came to light there would be a constant drum beat of news coverage rolling into the next congressional I

> If the president were still GWB when all this stuff came to light there would be a constant drum beat of news coverage rolling into the next congressional I don't think this is the right approach to the problem. Without getting too much into politics, if the general public didn't really care when torture was considered fair game nor when it was proved that the whole "WMDs in Irak" was made up (and let's remember that soldiers actually died because of that), I think they certainly wouldn't have cared about Snowden either.