They must be scared shitless or high on power.

[NealK]

40. "except to the far right here in this country"

Not just the far right I'm afraid.

Glenn Greenwald being interviewed on Democracy now:

"What you—the only people at this point who are defending the NSA are the hardcore neocons in the Republican Party, people like Lindsey Graham and John McCain and the like, who see national security as the only value that matters, and the really hardcore Obama loyalists and Democrats, who defend anything the Obama administration does and have become the loudest proponents, ironically, of the massive secret surveillance state and of the government’s power to listen in. So those two groups—Republican neocons, Democratic Party loyalists—are at this point the only real defenders the NSA has left."

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/18/glenn_greenwald_growing_backlash_against_nsa