Barack Obama: “The United States must preserve and continue to develop a robust and technologically advanced signals intelligence…”

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

Listen, hypocrisy is progress.

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.