At this point it is ludicrous and hard to watch mainstream media sources pretend to be outraged at the inaction of Congress in the face of the growing police state. In this particular instance, it's regarding the news that the FBI had created a small fleet of surveillance planes to spy on us wholesale.

Via The Atlantic:

Last week, Americans learned that even as the NSA collected information on their telephone and Internet behavior, the FBI was using fictitious companies to secretly operate what the AP called "a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cell phone surveillance technology."The news organization reported that surveillance flights may be more than a decade old, and identified "more than 100 flights since late April orbiting both major cities and rural areas."

The merits of this program will now be debated.

Debated?

As in, in the press? Ha. Ha ha HA. More like discussed just long enough to make people angry, give them a steam valve to vent, and meanwhile not much will change. Kinda like the Snowden leaks that get slow-dripped out to the citizens every once in a while as they have been for the last two years. Those have been "debated". Has anything changed?

Hardly.

The Atlantic continues:

What's already clear, however, is the anti-democratic nature of keeping it hidden all these years. The U.S. is supposed to be governed by the people. Whether Americans want a federal law-enforcement agency using planes to conduct surveillance on vast swaths of the country is a question properly aired and debated.

It is for Americans to choose.

Quite obviously we don't get to choose.