Another slanted NY Post op-ed: Blame Obama for the NSA's power and the IRS's revenge. Funny how none of the groups "targeted" by the IRS were actually denied C4 status. Funny how President George W. Bush appointed Lois Lerner in 2006 as head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division. Funny how we only hear about "Tea Party" groups targeted by the IRS, when they also targeted groups that used red-flag words like "Israel," "progressive" and "Occupy." Funny how the NSA spying started right after the Patriot Act was enacted by a Republican Congress and signed into law by Pres. Bush on October 26, 2001. The US certainly has become a fascist police state, and we have Pres. Bush and the Republican Congress to thank for it. And we have the NY Post to thank for keeping its mouth shut about these outrages from 2001 to 2006 when their party was calling all the shots. I'm a Libertarian who complained about Republican excesses constantly, back when they were happening. My complaints fell on deaf ears then. Complaining about this stuff now is too little too late.