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| The Fuse Has Been Lit: Seven Critical Points on Champ's Spying Program |
| 2013-06-12 |
| [Breitbart] The sordid revelations from The Champ administration are coming at a pace that can only be described as, well, fast and furious. So let’s lay down some markers here, as a sort of road map for the months and years ahead, First, if the PRISM program and all the rest of the government’s surveillance programs were so good and necessary, then why didn’t the feds catch the Tsarnaev brothers, who earlier this year blew up the Boston Marathon? Or Major Hassan, the 2009 Fort Hood mass-murderer? Or the “underwear bomber,” also from 2009, who nearly succeeded in blowing up the passenger jet flying into Detroit? Second, if and when everything is revealed about PRISM and all the rest, it’s likely that we will learn of important and inculpating connections between the National Security Agency (NSA), on the one hand, and many civilian agencies, Or we could just ask Maxine Waters. I am not just referring to Eric Holder’s Justice Department; I am also referring to the gleefully gushing leakers and win-at-any-cost politicos in the White House. And oh yes, let’s not forget The Champ administration’s partisan allies at the IRS, as well as the Affordable Care Act Special Note: The HHS private donations programme is now on hold. Moreover, since we know that the IRS was eagerly willing to share secret tax information with favored private groups, we shouldn’t be surprised, in the end, to learn that NSA/PRISM material ended up in the hands of Champ friends and allies outside of the Third, we now know that Silicon Valley, and the telecommunications industry, are the key to The Champ strategy for total information awareness. In fact, the internet companies, and the phone companies, were the spearpoint for PRISM. No, wait, that’s not the right image. Let’s try this: These communications companies put peepholes into all of our private lives, through which Uncle Sam could sneak a peek. Every e-mail, every phone call, every text-message--the government knows about them all. I blame Bill and Melinda. It’s now evident that all these wonderful digital services--many of them, such as Google’s Gmail, given away for free--were, in fact, a kind of Trojan Horse. That is, on the outside, it all seemed like a good deal--but then the real truth comes tumbling out, and it’s too late. Some might recall the rueful lesson of the Trojan War: “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” The rueful lesson of our own time: “Beware of geeks bearing gifts.” Beware of all "free stuff" and them that bring it. Yes, Big Brother walks among us now, |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 If Spying is NOT a "Big Deal" To them, spy ON THEM and listen to the screams. Watergate. I know it's somewhere down that damn memory hole. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-06-12 19:09 |
#5 "Yes, Big Brother walks among us now, jiving, peeking and snooping into everything. And we, innocently and unwittingly, invited Big Brother into our midst." LONG LIVE BIG BREEZY! |
| Posted by: Flinetle Shinetch4872 2013-06-12 13:50 |
| #4 If Spying is NOT a "Big Deal" To them, spy ON THEM and listen to the screams. Suddenly it will become a "Big Deal" And must be stopped RIGHT NOW. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-06-12 12:58 |
| #3 Seventh, as far as the American people are concerned, this domestic spying is a big deal. Yet revealingly, to the political class--that is, our leaders in Washington DC--itÂ’s not such a big deal. And there we see the central cleft in our politics today: the widening gap between the government and the governed. Well, it is a BFD, it trashes the 1st Amendment [free speech, rights of assembly (albeit electronically)], and the 4th Amendment [the right of people to be secure in their houses, papers, effects against unreasonable search and seizures and the requirement of probable cause and a Warrant]. But as Hilldebeast said: "What difference does it make?" We'll see if it is a BFD and if such things make a difference anymore. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-06-12 11:01 |
| #2 Limerick of the day: Obama is good at spying Even better at lying What about PRISM? What about Prison? I would be most happy if he just stopped trying |
| Posted by: airandee 2013-06-12 10:59 |
| #1 See also FREEREPUBLIC > 27 EDWARD SNOWDEN QUOTES ABOUT US GOVT. SPYING THAT SHOULD SEND A CHILL UP YOUR SPINE. * SAME > THE SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL IS A DIRECT RESULT OF OUR NATIONAL DENIAL OF JIHAD. Good Artic, but I suspect that as usual there's more than one factor or element involved. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-06-12 02:56 |