Reply #43: Sigh...

[billh58]

I yield to your moral outrage and political superiority complex. I was attempting to answer your question in a civil manner, but you just had to turn it into a "you're either with me, or you're against me" circular argument. Why would you automatically assume that I am ignorant about COINTELPRO (which was a brainchild of J. Edgar Hoover and was initiated in 1956 five years before JFK took office)?

Your reference to the Church Committee (which was formed primarily due to Nixon's Watergate fiasco) leads me to believe that you may be another 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and that would explain a few things. FISA and the Patriot Act are matters for the Congress to deal with, as they are the Branch who passed both Acts well before President Obama took office.

Both JFK and President Obama were/are Liberals in the classic sense of the term, and I voted for both of them.