nothing lite about it

From Maureen Dowd's (yes, Maureen Dowd's) column today on the confirmation of what I (and a lot of others) have been saying for years about our surveillance state:

"Back in 2007, Obama said he would not want to run an administration that was “Bush-Cheney lite.” He doesn’t have to worry. With prisoners denied due process at Gitmo starving themselves, with the C.I.A. not always aware who it’s killing with drones, with an overzealous approach to leaks, and with the government’s secret domestic spy business swelling, there’s nothing lite about it."

Read the whole thing.

And mad props to Glenn Greenwald and the incredibly heroic person who has provided him with the information we've been reading about these last few days (and will no doubt continue to read about in the days to come).