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Fred Kaplan thinks Obama ought to fire James Clapper, our Director of National Intelligence. I think so, too. And let him find out by listening in on someone else's calls.

My views on this whole phone surveillance thing are murky…and they probably should be, given how much we don't know about it all. But I do keep thinking of Michael Kinsley's famous line about how the outrage in Washington ought to be not about illegal actions but rather things that are legal and shouldn't be.