Dobbs has no experience with the intelligence system. Yet he ranted about its reputed assaults on our privacy and other alleged misdeeds (if you want to know who spies on you, it's the FGA — Facebook, Google and Amazon — not the NSA, the National Security Agency). When I insisted that the men and women who work in our intelligence agencies are patriots who keep us safe, the host reddened and demanded, "Patriotism is the last refuge of the — you fill in the blank." As I sought to explain that, no, the NSA isn't listening to our pillow talk, Dobbs kept repeating, "Patriotism is the last refuge of the — fill in the blank."