stall, obfuscate, lie and then stall again - repeat
Oh for the love of mike folks, this is the Crapper Clapper remember.
If it speaks, shit comes out.
Its what he is paid to do after all; lie to the US public and anyone who has no "need-to-know". How can anything he says be considered news - or worth reading/hearing - unless you take what he says and reverse it??
As always, the longer the USG can keep people confused, and waiting for responses, the longer they can keep on doing exactly what they are doing.
Yes, they are still torturing people.
Yes they are still using methods of torture that even their own less than humanitarian standards do not consider to be lawful.
Yes they are "creating" new and approved, unauthorized methods of torture on the fly.
Yes they intend to keep right on torturing people for as long as they can, no matter what you, the "adversary" thinks or does.
No they have not learned squat as far as useful intel is concerned from the entire program and no they don't really care that they have learned squat in useful intel because they are enjoying themselves no end torturing folks they don't like.
This whole ploy of totally redacting the supposed "public synopsis" of the Torture Report, is just another play for time, and it has worked as well as all the other stalls they've pulled for everything else they've been caught doing to date - and are still doing to this day.
Because You The People are utterly helpless and cannot do anything to stop them. You are no longer the Government's employer. You are their bitch.
I think what everyone is overlooking here, is that this is just the No-Fly list.
In other words, this is just the list of folks that the USG doesn't care enough about to prevent them from knowing they're on a list, which they will learn as soon as the USG stops them from boarding a plane.
I'm certain there must be dozens if not hundreds of other lists the government agencies keep tabs on regularly to let them know where all of the suspected "bad people" are at any given time.
For example, there must be at least one list that lets people fly because their jobs necessitate them flying to other countries, even though they are considered a "risk".
These people would become aware of their being spied on if they were to be detained due to taking a plane, so they need to be allowed to fly while still being watched closely.
And what about the No-Hire lists. Lists of people suspected to be hackers... or worse... who are caused to be fired from any hi-tech jobs as soon as the employer registers them for income tax purposes.... or suspected bomb makers, or suspected anti-government artists and writers, or.... well the list of lists just goes on and on....
Normal individual paranoia is bad enough, but Institutionalized Paranoia is all-encompassing eventually.
You know, there is a definite unemployment problem in the US today and what with inflation and high costs and all, I was just wondering if you'd be kind enough to post the email address of those who are paying you to post here, and likely elsewhere.
If they are willing to pay you actual money for posting the drivel you do so often, its quite likely that many here would be able to earn a little extra income for posting similarly pathetic drivel in their spare time, for your employers.
Actually, I'm pretty certain that the single most pertinent sign of the end times, is the one where politicians in a display of incredible group intelligence, do the right thing.....
.... and then again, Mister Obama might have, you know, just sort of, you know, lied once again, in order to make everyone think he was on their side and not giving the go- ahead to his corporate buddies to start charging for fast lanes on the web and all that.... as usual.
I mean, its not like he hasn't done the same sort of thing in the past.... repeatedly.
Personally, if it comes out of his mouth, I'd give it about a 10% chance to be even partially true. I mean hell, he was hired by Wall Street because he can sell shit as shinola better than anyone else they interviewed for the job.
But if its about something that Corporate America holds near and dear to its heart, I'd assume its 100% pure bovine fecal matter, delivered as usual, on a silver palate.
Finally, a law written by rich fascist crooks to legally allow the crooked cops on their payroll, to stop those pesky telephone-camera freaks from taking pictures of their criminal behavior and allow the victims no legal recourse from the false arrest and inevitable confiscation of their property.
Another triumph of American Justice over the forces of freedom and truth!!
The wording lays the blame at Snowden's feet for "exposing" the public to the NSA's semi-legal clandestine global surveillance activities and lays the blame at the NSA's feet for getting caught without an effective plausible denial at the ready.
The implication is that had Snowden minded his own business and kept his mouth shut like a good loyal minion, the NSA would still be merrily secretly collecting and analyzing the planet's communications, black-mailing heads of state, judges and others to comply with their needs, and destroying citizens lives and reputations around the world, and the world's populations being none the wiser, would still be supporting American companies as if nothing was amiss.
I am unaware of anyone, at any time, describing Snowden as a saint. In fact, a saint would never do what a patriot must do, when confronted by those who would destroy his country from within.
Hell people. All the NSA, CIA, FBI, and Obama had to do after Snowden exposed their bare bums to the wind, was go on TV and say:
"OK, you caught us. We did indeed overstep our mandate and we did indeed steal shit we really should not have.
So we're gonna make reparations to everyone we wronged and close down these programs and create a slew of laws and watch-dogs to insure that this sort of thing never happens again in this country.
We are very, very sorry for any inconvenience and harm we may have caused. Our intentions were pure, but we simply got caught up in the process and lost our way."
Instead, they sent forth their best bull-shitters and lied time after time and pretended that it was all legal and above board because they had super honest and super smart watch-dogs analyzing their every move, making sure they did nothing wrong every step of the way. So there!
Because of this attitude, most people with a brain now believe the Spook Agencies and the whole membership of The Most Transparent Administration In American History have been continuously insincere about everything, and that they will continue to be insincere because they are guilty of every single crime Snowden has pointed out.
Because of this attitude, most everyone is certain that they are just a cabal of plain evil little shits who want to peak into your private life so they can blackmail you whenever the mood strikes them, or ruin your life if you happen to get in their way.
It was this pathetic and childish "sticking to their story" and lying about everything (that they are still in fact doing) that has cost the USA its Moral High Ground Position in the global arena, not the exposure of their crimes by this century's greatest American Patriot.
And blaming Snowden for everything is going to help this situation how exactly??
Had he not blown the whistle, the Snoop and Scoop would have escalated exponentially as the spooks realized they could get away with anything and everything, especially as technology was making what used to be expensive or impossible, easy and cheap to do.
By popping their cherry in public, Snowden has made the world aware that it is being spied on in ways that they were all assured were not possible - ways that the public and business had indeed been paying to keep impossible at ever increasing rates.
Once the NSA succeeded at their goal - to have all the dirty laundry on all the people of earth, to know where everyone went every day and at what time and who they spoke to and hung out with and what they ate and read and drank and smoked and watched and loved and hated and who they had sex with and when and where and who they had wronged and how and when and where - did you think that they would not then use this data in exactly the ways that Snowden exposed - blackmail, coercion, extortion, character assassination and real assassination - for profit and power.
And just to set the record straight, Snowden was not "hacking even into the President's phone".
He said it would be easy to do, not that he had done it.
Just a little heads-up here.
Shooting the messenger, in no way alters the activity of the perps who planned and executed the crimes that the messenger is reporting. It does however, make it harder to discover who the perps are and what they have done because other messengers will fear the same stupid reaction when they try and inform the public about other crimes and other perps.
By blaming Snowden, you do a huge dis-service to your country and its citizens and aid and abet the bastards who are using your laws and your constitution for ass-wipe. ---
"... it's entirely possible this could result in Brennan being forced to resign..."
No biggie. He can always charge $1,000,000.00 a month for selling government communications secrets, masquerading as patented hacker profiling software, to private industry... as long as he's willing to pass along official lies to the Truth Free Press from the Most Transparent Administration In American History like a certain comrade named Alexander is doing. ---
I have to wonder, precisely how much money this gang of lawyer-charlatans has cost the US taxpayer. The sheer number of court proceedings alone is astonishing, and Team Prenda has apparently been able to so far avoid any costs whatsoever. Hopefully, this is about to change, although in truth, I doubt they will ever pay a cent.
It might indeed be very interesting to see an estimate of how much money this and similar Copyright Troll court cases has so far cost the American Taxpayer in total, as a yardstick for comparing the merits of the copyright laws currently on the books to those older copyright laws that were displaced. ---
Lets see now. This is Keith Alexander that we're talking about right. And we're talking about his claims that he has a new-fangled, absolutely guaranteed method, to tag cyber bad guys, that he's about to patent and install in your business for only one million dollars a month... that about sums it up eh.
Translation:
He's lying again. That part is a certainty, as its just about the only thing he learned during his time with the NSA - how to lie with a straight face about almost everything to almost anyone. That, and of course, how to steal information from the world.
The planned patents on behavior modelling is simply the "look over there" trick he's using to cover up his selling of NSA insider secrets to the highest bidders.
Since the companies he's gonna sell to will not want anyone to know they've purchased government secrets to help them protect their information from spies and bad guys, they're willing to claim that they are merely using Alexander's patented behavior modelling software. It will part of the deal after all.
So yeah, he's just another crook, selling what he's stolen to other crooks... business as usual.
But the most important part of his statement is this:
"It was those kinds of hackers who Alexander, when he was running the NSA, said were responsible for "the greatest transfer of wealth in American history" because they were routinely stealing trade secrets and competitive information from U.S. companies and giving it to their competitors, often in China."
This is a statement designed to lay the groundwork for a cover up of something that has yet to be disclosed - a huge multifaceted theft and resale of a various trade secrets by members of the NSA that will soon become world news and which will of course be blamed on these unknown mysterious (: and probably Chinese :) "super-hackers".
Like I've said from the outset, the NSA has been using its vast pseudo-legal spying apparatus to steal foreign and domestic trade secrets and to blackmail their enemies and competitors and to ruin the lives of Americans and others who they think might interfere with, or prevent their continued top secret, government approved and protected crime wave.
This massive theft - ""the greatest transfer of wealth in American history" - will obviously become breaking news very soon, and Alexander wants the public to already know in advance that it was the Chinese that done the deed.
Now that's a slick bit of sleight of hand, and probably why the NSA is letting him sell trade secrets - in return for the pre-education of the US Public - about a crime that was pulled by the NSA, but will be blamed on the Chinese by the Truth Free Press and The Most Transparent Administration In American History, once the news actually breaks.
Actually, by withholding communications vulnerabilities from the US public and from US businesses, regardless of their reasons, these companies are weakening the security of the United States, by creating the opportunity for criminals and foreign governments to use these same vulnerabilities for various nefarious purposes.
There has to be some law against doing that sort of thing, already on the books.
I assume that the NSA, perhaps through some still secret executive order written by The Most Transparent Administration In American History, has wrangled some form of immunity from such laws for the companies that do this in return for the service, but they must be in some sense, breaking the law big time.
Any armchair lawyers out there care to look into this??
Now all we need to do is find us some real terrorists and give them the terrorism of the year award.
Damn, but the US effort to create some terrorists is having so little luck these days. Its just so hard to find good excuses to bomb another third world muslim country into the stone age anymore. Looks like we'll have to make do with the US and British Special Ops "terrorists", until we can figure out some way to make poor third world peasants appear to be more threatening.
Maybe more Hollywood Terrorist Movies will do the trick...
Hate to break this too ya, but the folks at the top of the food chain in America could not give a rat's ass whether the taxpayer is sick of bailing their asses out of the messes they create, or not, because the taxpayer has absolutely no say in whether or not the Federal Government continues to bail their asses out of the messes they make, using taxpayer's money.
Unless of course you have recently received a letter from the USG asking your approval for the use of your tax dollars to fund the ongoing surveillance of the US public, or something similar...
Since the article is written by someone who fully supports the government's "rights" to spy on the public, the article is hardly worth the read.
He starts off with this -
"What follows is my assessment of the operational harms that have resulted from the Snowden disclosures...",
...showing immediately that the author considers Snowden's Expose, not the actions of the NSA that comprise the Expose, to be the problem. No bias there eh.
In other words, had Snowden just kept his mouth shut, nobody would have learned that everyone was being spied on and as long as nobody knew, then no harm was being done.
Sound familiar?
His four points almost mimic the basic NSA Apologists' standard talking points exactly.
"First, there are the actions taken by terrorists, other nations and/or organizations or groups"
...because they were all so stupid that they were totally unaware that they were being targeted by the world's Biggest Anti-Terrorist Organization - the US Federal Government - and Snowden's Expose let them all know for the very first time ever, that they were indeed targets.
Since it has already been reported that Terrorist Groups world-wide had already long ago changed their activities because of US surveillance, this comment is simply for those who get their news from TV only, and those suffering from brain damage.
"Second, there are the actions taken by the U.S. Government in the past year to scale back collection."
Oh please! What country is this idiot living in. Romania??
The Most Transparent Administration In American History has done everything in its power to prevent even the smallest reduction in its hay-stacking ability, rewriting every bill presented to make it useless and give itself even more power to spy on Americans and everyone else. Worse still, the executive order that backbone's the whole process is immune to all of the so-called limitations being proposed and ignored concerning the rulings that let the NSA steal everyone's private data.
Again this comment is also for those who only watch TV to learn what the world is up to.
"Third, there is the coming legislative action. It now seems that Congress is close to passing a revised USA Freedom Act."
The day that Act becomes something that actually causes the NSA and the Feds to stop spying on Americans is the day that Wall Street becomes The Street of Honest Businessmen.
Not gonna happen, but this jerk acts as if its a done deal and that the congress will actually do something to limit the global over-reach of their spy agencies through this legislation, even though TMTAIAH wants the opposite.
"Finally, operational degradation may also be a downstream effect of the increasingly adversarial relationship between the Executive Branch and the private sector, such as communications providers"
Well no shit Sherlock! NSLs have a tendency to make any private sector business, such as communications providers, an adversary of the government since they are forced to lie to their customers and suffer the consequences of lost revenue should the truth come out - as it has.
Opening the packages of mail order hardware to install spyware without the consent of the private sector company who sold the hardware is also going to make no friends among those who deal with the public for a living.
What this author has done is taken all the criminal activities, pseudo-legalized through secret interpretations and quiet Go-Aheads from The Most Transparent Administration In American History, and blamed them all on Snowden because he made everyone aware they were being spied on and lied to.
All of this is entirely due to the activity of the NSA, CIA, FBI and other Federal Agencies of TMTAIAH, who thought they could get away with anything.
This article is the largest crock of shit I have seen all day.
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stall, obfuscate, lie and then stall again - repeat
If it speaks, shit comes out.
Its what he is paid to do after all; lie to the US public and anyone who has no "need-to-know". How can anything he says be considered news - or worth reading/hearing - unless you take what he says and reverse it??
As always, the longer the USG can keep people confused, and waiting for responses, the longer they can keep on doing exactly what they are doing.
Yes, they are still torturing people.
Yes they are still using methods of torture that even their own less than humanitarian standards do not consider to be lawful.
Yes they are "creating" new and approved, unauthorized methods of torture on the fly.
Yes they intend to keep right on torturing people for as long as they can, no matter what you, the "adversary" thinks or does.
No they have not learned squat as far as useful intel is concerned from the entire program and no they don't really care that they have learned squat in useful intel because they are enjoying themselves no end torturing folks they don't like.
This whole ploy of totally redacting the supposed "public synopsis" of the Torture Report, is just another play for time, and it has worked as well as all the other stalls they've pulled for everything else they've been caught doing to date - and are still doing to this day.
Because You The People are utterly helpless and cannot do anything to stop them. You are no longer the Government's employer. You are their bitch.
---
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The Institution of Paranoia
In other words, this is just the list of folks that the USG doesn't care enough about to prevent them from knowing they're on a list, which they will learn as soon as the USG stops them from boarding a plane.
I'm certain there must be dozens if not hundreds of other lists the government agencies keep tabs on regularly to let them know where all of the suspected "bad people" are at any given time.
For example, there must be at least one list that lets people fly because their jobs necessitate them flying to other countries, even though they are considered a "risk".
These people would become aware of their being spied on if they were to be detained due to taking a plane, so they need to be allowed to fly while still being watched closely.
And what about the No-Hire lists. Lists of people suspected to be hackers... or worse... who are caused to be fired from any hi-tech jobs as soon as the employer registers them for income tax purposes.... or suspected bomb makers, or suspected anti-government artists and writers, or.... well the list of lists just goes on and on....
Normal individual paranoia is bad enough, but Institutionalized Paranoia is all-encompassing eventually.
---
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Re: Re:
You know, there is a definite unemployment problem in the US today and what with inflation and high costs and all, I was just wondering if you'd be kind enough to post the email address of those who are paying you to post here, and likely elsewhere.
If they are willing to pay you actual money for posting the drivel you do so often, its quite likely that many here would be able to earn a little extra income for posting similarly pathetic drivel in their spare time, for your employers.
Thank you in advance.
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..the end is hardly nigh...
On the post: President Obama Says He's Against Fast Lanes On The Internet, But FCC Proposal Would Allow Them
...nothing up my other sleeve....
I mean, its not like he hasn't done the same sort of thing in the past.... repeatedly.
Personally, if it comes out of his mouth, I'd give it about a 10% chance to be even partially true. I mean hell, he was hired by Wall Street because he can sell shit as shinola better than anyone else they interviewed for the job.
But if its about something that Corporate America holds near and dear to its heart, I'd assume its 100% pure bovine fecal matter, delivered as usual, on a silver palate.
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On the post: Connecticut Supreme Court Says State Cops Can Detain You Simply For Being In The Vicinity Of Someone They're Arresting
They who write the law, rule.
Finally, a law written by rich fascist crooks to legally allow the crooked cops on their payroll, to stop those pesky telephone-camera freaks from taking pictures of their criminal behavior and allow the victims no legal recourse from the false arrest and inevitable confiscation of their property.
Another triumph of American Justice over the forces of freedom and truth!!
There is no escaping the Grand Aquisition!!
---
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Re:
They are and they are not.
The wording lays the blame at Snowden's feet for "exposing" the public to the NSA's semi-legal clandestine global surveillance activities and lays the blame at the NSA's feet for getting caught without an effective plausible denial at the ready.
The implication is that had Snowden minded his own business and kept his mouth shut like a good loyal minion, the NSA would still be merrily secretly collecting and analyzing the planet's communications, black-mailing heads of state, judges and others to comply with their needs, and destroying citizens lives and reputations around the world, and the world's populations being none the wiser, would still be supporting American companies as if nothing was amiss.
Which is of course, entirely true. :)
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Re: Re:
I'm afraid Capitalism easily trumps your Democracy, when it comes to getting things done.
Ask any lobbyist.
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Re:
So, its not a very good straw man.
I can't even give you a "Nice Try" for that one.
On the post: Business Insider Ridiculously Blames Ed Snowden For All The Damage The NSA Has Caused
Where the light never shines.
"OK, you caught us. We did indeed overstep our mandate and we did indeed steal shit we really should not have.
So we're gonna make reparations to everyone we wronged and close down these programs and create a slew of laws and watch-dogs to insure that this sort of thing never happens again in this country.
We are very, very sorry for any inconvenience and harm we may have caused. Our intentions were pure, but we simply got caught up in the process and lost our way."
Instead, they sent forth their best bull-shitters and lied time after time and pretended that it was all legal and above board because they had super honest and super smart watch-dogs analyzing their every move, making sure they did nothing wrong every step of the way. So there!
Because of this attitude, most people with a brain now believe the Spook Agencies and the whole membership of The Most Transparent Administration In American History have been continuously insincere about everything, and that they will continue to be insincere because they are guilty of every single crime Snowden has pointed out.
Because of this attitude, most everyone is certain that they are just a cabal of plain evil little shits who want to peak into your private life so they can blackmail you whenever the mood strikes them, or ruin your life if you happen to get in their way.
It was this pathetic and childish "sticking to their story" and lying about everything (that they are still in fact doing) that has cost the USA its Moral High Ground Position in the global arena, not the exposure of their crimes by this century's greatest American Patriot.
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On the post: Business Insider Ridiculously Blames Ed Snowden For All The Damage The NSA Has Caused
Re: You're too quick to forgive sNOwden
Had he not blown the whistle, the Snoop and Scoop would have escalated exponentially as the spooks realized they could get away with anything and everything, especially as technology was making what used to be expensive or impossible, easy and cheap to do.
By popping their cherry in public, Snowden has made the world aware that it is being spied on in ways that they were all assured were not possible - ways that the public and business had indeed been paying to keep impossible at ever increasing rates.
Once the NSA succeeded at their goal - to have all the dirty laundry on all the people of earth, to know where everyone went every day and at what time and who they spoke to and hung out with and what they ate and read and drank and smoked and watched and loved and hated and who they had sex with and when and where and who they had wronged and how and when and where - did you think that they would not then use this data in exactly the ways that Snowden exposed - blackmail, coercion, extortion, character assassination and real assassination - for profit and power.
And just to set the record straight, Snowden was not "hacking even into the President's phone".
He said it would be easy to do, not that he had done it.
Just a little heads-up here.
Shooting the messenger, in no way alters the activity of the perps who planned and executed the crimes that the messenger is reporting. It does however, make it harder to discover who the perps are and what they have done because other messengers will fear the same stupid reaction when they try and inform the public about other crimes and other perps.
By blaming Snowden, you do a huge dis-service to your country and its citizens and aid and abet the bastards who are using your laws and your constitution for ass-wipe.
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Merry Go Round
No biggie. He can always charge $1,000,000.00 a month for selling government communications secrets, masquerading as patented hacker profiling software, to private industry... as long as he's willing to pass along official lies to the Truth Free Press from the Most Transparent Administration In American History like a certain comrade named Alexander is doing.
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On the post: Appeals Court Smacks Down Team Prenda... Again
nothing up my sleeve...
It might indeed be very interesting to see an estimate of how much money this and similar Copyright Troll court cases has so far cost the American Taxpayer in total, as a yardstick for comparing the merits of the copyright laws currently on the books to those older copyright laws that were displaced.
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On the post: Report Says Backlash From NSA's Surveillance Programs Will Cost Private Sector Billions Of Dollars
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Please elucidate.
On the post: Keith Alexander: I'm Worth $1 Million Per Month Because I'm Patenting A Way To Stop Hackers (Which I Didn't Tell The NSA)
pants on fire...
Translation:
He's lying again. That part is a certainty, as its just about the only thing he learned during his time with the NSA - how to lie with a straight face about almost everything to almost anyone. That, and of course, how to steal information from the world.
The planned patents on behavior modelling is simply the "look over there" trick he's using to cover up his selling of NSA insider secrets to the highest bidders.
Since the companies he's gonna sell to will not want anyone to know they've purchased government secrets to help them protect their information from spies and bad guys, they're willing to claim that they are merely using Alexander's patented behavior modelling software. It will part of the deal after all.
So yeah, he's just another crook, selling what he's stolen to other crooks... business as usual.
But the most important part of his statement is this:
"It was those kinds of hackers who Alexander, when he was running the NSA, said were responsible for "the greatest transfer of wealth in American history" because they were routinely stealing trade secrets and competitive information from U.S. companies and giving it to their competitors, often in China."
This is a statement designed to lay the groundwork for a cover up of something that has yet to be disclosed - a huge multifaceted theft and resale of a various trade secrets by members of the NSA that will soon become world news and which will of course be blamed on these unknown mysterious (: and probably Chinese :) "super-hackers".
Like I've said from the outset, the NSA has been using its vast pseudo-legal spying apparatus to steal foreign and domestic trade secrets and to blackmail their enemies and competitors and to ruin the lives of Americans and others who they think might interfere with, or prevent their continued top secret, government approved and protected crime wave.
This massive theft - ""the greatest transfer of wealth in American history" - will obviously become breaking news very soon, and Alexander wants the public to already know in advance that it was the Chinese that done the deed.
Now that's a slick bit of sleight of hand, and probably why the NSA is letting him sell trade secrets - in return for the pre-education of the US Public - about a crime that was pulled by the NSA, but will be blamed on the Chinese by the Truth Free Press and The Most Transparent Administration In American History, once the news actually breaks.
What a total dick head!
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Re: Re:
There has to be some law against doing that sort of thing, already on the books.
I assume that the NSA, perhaps through some still secret executive order written by The Most Transparent Administration In American History, has wrangled some form of immunity from such laws for the companies that do this in return for the service, but they must be in some sense, breaking the law big time.
Any armchair lawyers out there care to look into this??
....for the children!
Because.... terrorists!
On the post: Report Says Backlash From NSA's Surveillance Programs Will Cost Private Sector Billions Of Dollars
Re: They have won
Damn, but the US effort to create some terrorists is having so little luck these days. Its just so hard to find good excuses to bomb another third world muslim country into the stone age anymore. Looks like we'll have to make do with the US and British Special Ops "terrorists", until we can figure out some way to make poor third world peasants appear to be more threatening.
Maybe more Hollywood Terrorist Movies will do the trick...
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Re:
Unless of course you have recently received a letter from the USG asking your approval for the use of your tax dollars to fund the ongoing surveillance of the US public, or something similar...
On the post: Report Says Backlash From NSA's Surveillance Programs Will Cost Private Sector Billions Of Dollars
Re: come the next election
Yeah, like they did about 9/11 and the implications that it was entirely US manufactured.
Not gonna happen.
You see, first of all you need some honest folks in government to bring the dishonest folks in government to task on their behavior.
Just so happens the total number of honest folks in American Politics this year is the same as the number of fingers on the standard hand.
And steps are already being taken to insure that those five are soon to be the victims of staged accidents that cause grievous bodily harm or death.
There is no escaping The Grand Aquisition.
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Re: Going dark
He starts off with this -
"What follows is my assessment of the operational harms that have resulted from the Snowden disclosures...",
...showing immediately that the author considers Snowden's Expose, not the actions of the NSA that comprise the Expose, to be the problem. No bias there eh.
In other words, had Snowden just kept his mouth shut, nobody would have learned that everyone was being spied on and as long as nobody knew, then no harm was being done.
Sound familiar?
His four points almost mimic the basic NSA Apologists' standard talking points exactly.
"First, there are the actions taken by terrorists, other nations and/or organizations or groups"
...because they were all so stupid that they were totally unaware that they were being targeted by the world's Biggest Anti-Terrorist Organization - the US Federal Government - and Snowden's Expose let them all know for the very first time ever, that they were indeed targets.
Since it has already been reported that Terrorist Groups world-wide had already long ago changed their activities because of US surveillance, this comment is simply for those who get their news from TV only, and those suffering from brain damage.
"Second, there are the actions taken by the U.S. Government in the past year to scale back collection."
Oh please! What country is this idiot living in. Romania??
The Most Transparent Administration In American History has done everything in its power to prevent even the smallest reduction in its hay-stacking ability, rewriting every bill presented to make it useless and give itself even more power to spy on Americans and everyone else. Worse still, the executive order that backbone's the whole process is immune to all of the so-called limitations being proposed and ignored concerning the rulings that let the NSA steal everyone's private data.
Again this comment is also for those who only watch TV to learn what the world is up to.
"Third, there is the coming legislative action. It now seems that Congress is close to passing a revised USA Freedom Act."
The day that Act becomes something that actually causes the NSA and the Feds to stop spying on Americans is the day that Wall Street becomes The Street of Honest Businessmen.
Not gonna happen, but this jerk acts as if its a done deal and that the congress will actually do something to limit the global over-reach of their spy agencies through this legislation, even though TMTAIAH wants the opposite.
"Finally, operational degradation may also be a downstream effect of the increasingly adversarial relationship between the Executive Branch and the private sector, such as communications providers"
Well no shit Sherlock! NSLs have a tendency to make any private sector business, such as communications providers, an adversary of the government since they are forced to lie to their customers and suffer the consequences of lost revenue should the truth come out - as it has.
Opening the packages of mail order hardware to install spyware without the consent of the private sector company who sold the hardware is also going to make no friends among those who deal with the public for a living.
What this author has done is taken all the criminal activities, pseudo-legalized through secret interpretations and quiet Go-Aheads from The Most Transparent Administration In American History, and blamed them all on Snowden because he made everyone aware they were being spied on and lied to.
All of this is entirely due to the activity of the NSA, CIA, FBI and other Federal Agencies of TMTAIAH, who thought they could get away with anything.
This article is the largest crock of shit I have seen all day.
Then again, the day is young.
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