Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by MrZongle2 4478 days ago
I'm not glad that they hold Obama responsible for something that probably started before he showed up and he probably doesn't have absolute power to shutdown.

What one President can create without the involvement of the other two branches of government, his successor has the power to dismantle.
1 comments
CamperBob2 4478 days ago
It's not always that easy. Yes, any branch of government -- legislative, executive, or judicial -- has the authority to shut these programs down. But you can rest assured that the first people the NSA spied on were the politicians and judges who might try to stop them.

What happened to Eliot Spitzer didn't involve the NSA specifically, but I'm sure the lesson wasn't lost on anyone.

link