I would have voted for that guy (except for "FISA works!", but enh). I'd even be ok with ditching the 22nd if we could get that guy as President. I wonder what happened -- was it all a cynical ploy, or was there some secret (real or fake) information about how without wholesale monitoring we'd all instantly be destroyed, or what.

Its easy to say the right things from the outside but when you enter the sausage factory you see how the sausage is made and realize how hard/impossible it is to really change things

Big data is hard to ignore.

I cringed when he mentioned the National Security Letters. Didn't even realize he was supposed to be getting rid of those, too.