Greg welcomes guests Dana Perino, Michael Moynihan, Remi Spencer and Greg Proops.
Bob Beckel: Let's face it, this NSA snooping is getting awfully close to fascism
If you've lost Bob Beckel, you've lost .. one of Fox News's six or seven liberals, some of whom are defending the NSA's record-harvesting even now. Ah well. Worth watching anyway, partly because occasions for a second look at Beckel are rare and partly because of Dana Perino's argument at the end about how Beckel would feel if the feds stopped data-mining and his son was killed in a terrorist attack. That's the other evergreen defense of the surveillance state, complementing Lindsey Graham's point yesterday that if you haven't done anything wrong you should have nothing to worry about.
Granted, government surveillance is warranted and I support its use in protecting Americans against terror. However, I do not trust the Obama Administration to limit the surveillance to just that given their rhetoric about the Tea Party, NRA, Republicans, etc. As we're seeing with the IRS scandal, the animus directed at conservative groups is very much alive. I don't think I'm being too conspiratorial in believing that the Obama Administration is not solely using the mined data for only the protection of Americans from foreign/domestic terror activities.
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