The Algore calls it "outrageous", ACLU asking for investigations. Can't libs/cons agree on this?

[Taylor]

I was expecting a United front from both Cons and Libs on this, and we better.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/politics/n...index.html

Report: Secret court order forces Verizon to turn over telephone records of millions

Former Vice President Al Gore also criticized the move.

"In the digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?" he said in a post on Twitter.

Reacting to Wednesday's disclosure, the American Civil Liberties Union called for an immediate end to the order and a congressional investigation into the move.

"It's a program in which some untold number of innocent people have been put under the constant surveillance of government agents," Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU's deputy legal director, said.

"It is beyond Orwellian, and it provides further evidence of the extent to which basic democratic rights are being surrendered in secret to the demands of unaccountable intelligence agencies."

Liberals: This is NOT the same as under Bush
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06...lp00000003
"The broad, unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is unusual. FISA court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets."