NSA Spying Bush's Fault

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The National Security Agency has been spying on more than American citizens and suspected terrorists. Mexican President Calderón and German Chancellor Merkel, among many other world leaders, have also been targets of the prying eyes of the NSA. The media has vigilantly reminded us that the snooping program began in 2002, and President Obama has known nothing about it.

In other words,  it's all Bush's fault.

My first question is,  "How long does Barack Obama need to be President before he begins to take responsibility for the failures of his presidency?"

Americans are angry about the direction this nation is taking under this president, yet Obama has continuously kept himself separated from his own policies, acting like he's an outsider, as he is doing with the NSA.

With the continued failures of the Obamacare health care law as it tries to come on line, the IRS targeting conservatives, Benghazi terrorists killing Americans and the U.S. refusing to protect those Americans as it happened, and the NSA spying at will, it is impossible for the President not to know anything about any of it as the media claims.  And if indeed he was not aware, as the media proudly says, then why is Obama even President?  He knows nothing, and is involved with nothing.  They are telling us he is simply a warm body in the White House with no knowledge of anything.

Do we want a President that, as Rush has been saying, "Don't know Jack?"

Of course he knows what is going on, and I will even say the madness and confusion is by design.  Remember, crisis enables the government to do things they could not normally do, so Obama and his cronies are doing whatever they can to keep us in a continued state of crisis.

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Top Senator: Obama didn't know of U.S. spying on Germany's leader - CNN

Spain Summons American Ambassador on New Reports of NSA Spying - New York Times

Merkel: Relations with U.S. 'severely shaken over spying claims' - CNN

U.S. Coping with furious allies as NSA spying revelations grow - U.S. News and World Report

Report claims US had Merkel's phone monitored since 2002 - Fox News

Reports: NSA Spying on Germany Began in 2002; Obama was briefed in 2010 - Democracy Now!