Faster than you could say "God damn it, Obama!" Paul already posted the breaking news that the Obama Department of Justice secretly collected a wide array of phone records from Associated Press reporters over a two-month period last year.

I just want to add, to all the liberals out there: this is what you get.

This is what you get when you elect a politician who promises he'll criminalize Bush's warrantless wiretapping program during the Democratic primary, then spinelessly flip-flops after winning the nomination and votes to immunize telephone companies from prosecution.

This is what you get when Obama faces little outcry from his base for claiming to be the "most transparent" administration ever, while waging an unprecedented war on whistleblowers. This includes the abusive ten-month imprisonment in a military brig of Bradley Manning, the modern-day equivalent of Daniel Ellsberg. Even a military judge rebuked the government for its harsh treatment of Manning, who Obama had declared guilty.

Obviously, this is unacceptable. But so is the silence from Obama supporters who, evidently, were only feigning outrage over civil liberties abuses during the Bush years.