Obama breaks trust in government

Nolan Finley Comments Defenders of the data mining conducted by the National Security Agency say that the tracking of Americans’ phone calls and even emails is an essential weapon in the war on terror. The Obama administration claims the widespread and apparently indiscriminate sweeping of private communications has already thwarted one terror attack, although it won’t provide details. Many of my fellow conservatives, as much as they’d like to stick President Barack Obama with another embarrassing scandal, agree such surveillance is necessary in a world where sophisticated terror networks are constantly plotting America’s destruction. I disagree for the same reason I opposed much of the...