OUR POLITICAL CLASS IS COMPOSED OF IDIOTS

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"OUR POLITICAL CLASS IS COMPOSED OF IDIOTS:

“Chief Legal Analyst” for CNN.
UPDATE: From the comments: 
“This is not stupid, and it is dangerous to see it that way. 
This is the deliberate and coordinated big lie, the latest attempt to keep this coup together. 
All the left united in the latest lie. 
It is aimed at people so ignorant of their own nation’s affairs they don’t even realize that the Obama Administration actually spied on an opponent’s campaign and Nixon never did.”
Flashback: Was Obama administration illegal spying worse than Watergate?

In 1972, some employees of President Nixon’s

 re-election committee were caught when they broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to plant a bug. This led to Nixon’s resignation and probably would have led to his felony prosecution had he not been pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford.

But if a single bugging of the political opposition is enough to bring down a presidency — and maybe lead to an unprecedented criminal prosecution of a former president — then what are we to make of the recently unveiled Obama administration program of massively spying on political opponents in violation of clearly established law?

Because that’s what was unveiled last week.

It’s now become much clearer what happened. 
And yes, it was much worse than Watergate, since it involved the perversion of existing government agencies into political spying and persecution.
Plus:

Will the Justice Department investigate and prosecute former Obama officials? ...

Answer: No.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"
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