Congress has abdicated its responsibility over the decades to the point that it is irrelevant. Witness the contempt that the evil doers at the IRS displayed when appearing before Congress. Why is the IRS criminality referred to as a scandal instead of being considered a felony? Why is spying on 100 million citizens for no reason not a felony? Do you think anyone will lose their job? No, they most likely will be promoted, just as the people in charge of the killing of about 80 women and children in Waco were.

As for trusting the competence or honesty of our government, why, in view of all the constant and continuing corruption in Washington, D.C., would anyone of sound mind believe anything the denizens of the cesspool on the Potomac say? If their lips are moving, they are lying.

Oh, by the way, the spying by the NSA was a product of George Bush and the Republicans, truly a bipartisan disaster. Both parties are the same in one respect: corruption to the max.

William H. Taylor

Dolores