Obama's new FBI chief approved Bush's NSA warrantless wiretapping scheme | Glenn Greenwald

James Comey becomes just the latest symbol of the Obama legacy: normalizing what was very recently viewed as radical

(updated below - Update II - Update III)

One of the biggest scandals of the Bush administration (which is really saying something) began on December 16, 2005. That was when the New York Times' James Risen and Eric Lichtblau were finally allowed to reveal what they had learned more than a year earlier: namely, that President Bush, in 2002, had ordered the National Security Agency...