Back in 2006, Joe Biden explained why the Bush program of warrantless wiretapping was a bad idea, destroying GWB's arguments in favor of unconstitutional, sweeping blanket surveillance. Now that Obama has put forward those selfsame arguments in defense of his own administration's program of even more sweeping, even more intrusive surveillance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has edited together (now-)Vice President Biden's rebuttals with President Obama's stupid, Bushian rhetoric:
After a leaked FISA court document revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) is vacuuming up private data on millions of innocent Americans by collecting all the phone records of Verizon customers, President Obama responded by saying "let's have a debate" about the scope of US surveillance powers.Watch 2013 Barack Obama Debate 2006 Joe Biden Over NSA Surveillance
At EFF, we couldn't agree more. It turns out, President Obama's most formative debate partner over the invasiveness of NSA domestic surveillance could be his Vice President Joe Biden. Back in 2006, when the NSA surveillance program was first revealed by the New York Times, then-Senator Biden was one of the program's most articulate critics. As the FISA court order shows, the scope of NSA surveillance program has not changed much since 2006, except for the occupant in the White House.
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