One Really Has To Parse Phrases These Days: NYT Comes Close But Can't Completely Dismiss The President

This has to do with the Obama administration admitting that federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation ... and that the government will continue to do so.

From an op-ed in The New York Times:

The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive branch will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act, enacted in the heat of fear after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers.  

"....on this issue."

I guess The Times still takes the president's side on all his other scandals: targeting conservatives, hitting up health care companies for money, and reading e-mail of reporters, but when it comes to tapping phone calls of all Americans when/if/whatever ... that's "one issue" The Times feels the administration has lost all credibility.

Cue up Connie Francis. 

All I know is that Obama/Holder must love The "George W. Bush" Patriot Act. Funny how things work out.