it is obviously a much more complicated issue than the Democrats want the US public to believe.
And therefore the public, correctly or incorrectly (perhaps) percieves that the Democrats are playing politics with National Security during wartime.
In other words, the Democrats are playing with fire: There better be more to this than the NSA used word sniffing programs on E-mails and telephone calls, or else the Dems are jumping off a cliff.
So far, this is looking like over-hyped political gamesmanship and people are starting to get really PO'd by the game...The lives of American soldiers and civilians are being toyed with.