Corn on MSNBC: This Is Bad, But Not George W. Bush Bad

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As DC bureau chief David Corn noted on Thursday, “the Obama gang may finally have a real scandal on its hands” with the news that the National Security Agency has been collecting phone records from Verizon (and possibly others). Listen to Corn discuss the NSA scandal with The Grio‘s Joy Reid on MSNBC‘s Martin Bashir:

David Corn is Mother Jones’ Washington bureau chief. For more of his stories, click here. He’s also on Twitter.