Jimmy Carter Sure That The NSA Spies On Him; Thinks Snowden's Leaks Were A Good Thing
from the good-for-him dept
Former President Jimmy Carter says that he believes the NSA is likely spying on his communications, so he actually avoids using email when communicating with foreign leaders:"You know, I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored," Carter told NBC's Andrea Mitchell in an interview broadcast Sunday. "And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write a letter myself, put it in the post office and mail it.Of course, regular letters are quite frequently intercepted and read as well (the USPS already scans and stores the front and back of every piece of mail). But it's still rather telling that a former President feels that his own communications with foreign leaders are not private or secure. Someone should set him up with some encryption.
"I believe if I send an email, it will be monitored," Carter continued.
Meanwhile, in a separate interview, Carter said that he thinks Snowden's revelations were probably a good thing, even if he thinks Snowden probably broke the law.
"There's no doubt that he broke the law and that he would be susceptible, in my opinion, to prosecution if he came back here under the law," he said. "But I think it's good for Americans to know the kinds of things that have been revealed by him and others -- and that is that since 9/11 we've gone too far in intrusion on the privacy that Americans ought to enjoy as a right of citizenship."It's not a full support for Snowden's actions, but it's a lot farther than many others have gone. Either way, Carter thinks the NSA has gone way too far:
"I think it's wrong," he said of the NSA program. "I think it's an intrusion on one of the basic human rights of Americans, is to have some degree of privacy if we don't want other people to read what we communicate."
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Broken laws
Reporting illegal activity, especially illegal activity done by the government, should Never be treated as an illegal act itself.
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Of all the presidents during my lifetime (I was born in the late 50's) I think he might have been the most honest one. That of course is a fatal political flaw: we Americans love being lied to, which is why we've elected vacuous senile morons (Reagan) and populist manipulative players (Obama) and flat-out drug-addicted drunks (Bush II).
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A notable achievement of Jimmy Carter was advert another Korean War in 1994. He went there for a day or so and suddenly when he came out, he had a treaty with Kim Il-Sung, the threat of war stopped (it was even closer than last year) and North Korea was abandoning it's nuclear power plans, well, they were going to be given 2 light water reactors.
Kim Il-Sung died very quickly after. Often I think he was assassinated because he was the only reasonable Kim who was gonna have the whole country reverse its course due to the benefits of a renewed economy etc.
I think the big reason many joe 6 packs don't like Jimmy Carter is because he's the last President who tried/gave a shit and the media machine was first really tested on him to take him out, in one week they accomplished that, he was 10 points ahead of reagan a week before election day. not many remember that either heh
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oh, don't worry; the NSA and RSA already have that well in hand; and not just for him…
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Speaking of Jimmy Carter
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He's right, of course
He's smart enough to know that using email for this kind of communication is not secure, never has been and if the NSA hasn't already snooped on him, they're planning to.
Seems that nobody is exempt from their clutches-especially former leaders of the United States.
And if he's not, Diane Feinstein should just shut up.
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Sky must be falling
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It is accurate to say he is a decent, honest man, but one much too naive to sit in the Oval Office...much like its current occupant (naive only, of course).
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phewey
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Mail monopoly
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