by Glenn Thrush

The outrage over President Barack Obama’s authorization of a nearly limitless  federal dive into Americans’ phone records obscures a hiding-in-plain-sight  truth about the 44th president many of his supporters have overlooked for  years:

For all his campaign-trail talk of running the “most transparent administration” in U.S history, Obama never promised to reverse the 43rd  president’s policies on domestic anti-terrorism surveillance — and he’s been  good on his word.

Read the whole thing. (Thanks to Felix Bronstein.)