This is what makes the NSA - Snowden story unique. On one side you have the libertarian 4th Amendment supporters and the anti-military Democrat doves. On the other side sit the Defense Hawks and the Defend Obama at any Cost Dems.
Talk about Strange Bedfellows. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Something other than ideology. More like feathering one’s own nest. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/