The cognitive dissonance of conservative NSA hawks, in 1 telling episode

The U.S. was caught spying on Congress and American Jewish groups. How is Lindsey Graham not enraged?

Lindsey Graham believes that government surveillance is used only for specific groups of people.
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Lindsey Graham is confident that government surveillance only applies to terrorists.

"I don't think you're talking to the terrorists," the South Carolina senator and erstwhile presidential candidate told a television interviewer. "I know you're not. I know I'm not. So we don't have anything to worry about."

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.