QOTD: Charlie Pierce

On the justifications for President Obama's toothless and insulting NSA "reforms":

Wait a minute. "Advocates of civil liberties" -- which, damn it, ought to be all of us, including the president -- have to be "placated" but not at the expense of risking a "backlash" against the president from "national security agencies" which, ostensibly, work for him on our dime. The whole debate is backwards.