Posted on 06/06/2013 10:04:20 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen
Weeks before the National Security Agency (NSA) began a massive phone sweeping operation on U.S. cellular provider Verizon, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress the agency does not conduct intelligence on American citizens.
"Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" committee member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper during the March 12 hearing.
In response, Clapper replied quickly: "No, sir."
"There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect [intelligence on Americans], but not wittingly," the U.S. intelligence chief told Wyden and the rest of the committee.
That said, "particularly in the case of NSA and CIA, there are structures against tracking American citizens in the United States for foreign intelligence purposes," Clapper added.
Both agencies are focused on foreign intelligence collection, "and that's what those agencies are set up to do," he added.
Conducting surveillance on Americans inside U.S. borders is something "they do not engage in," the intelligence chief added.
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Lying to Congress!
Clap on. Clap off.
Please tell me he was under oath!
ROFLOL
I guess he should not have left the wrong fellas to die. Bad move.
The lying POS. Everybody turned a blind eye to intelligence community lies during the cold war. But now, a sea change has taken place in America. The entire apparatus of the intelligence community that used to be directed OUTWARDS, has turned INWARDS towards the American people.
The head of the CIA is a moslem, the Moslem brotherhood is assisted by the intelligence community at every turn. And TEA, normal Americans, constitution lovers, veterans, and patriots are the ones targeted.
God we are so screwed. Just like a frog in a pot!
In the 20th century, the premier globalist/international bankster “host” nations were the UK and the US, with the US developing much more muscle after WWII, of course, to emerge the “superpower” of the 20th century.
Either way, globalism headquarters is definitely an Anglo-American thing, a partnership of some kind.
Between WWI and WWII, British intelligence was behind the scenes in the middle east developing the Muslim Brotherhood for its own use. Despite Haj Amin al-Husseini being at times wackily anti-British, it’s pretty clear that throughout his career he was used by them. The MB was designed as a tool for globalism to employ whenever they wanted some managed chaos. Part of traditional, fundamental globalist knowledge is that you need two sides to have a fight, there has to be a good guy and bad guy. If there is no bad guy, one needs to be recruited.
It’s difficult for most people to understand that the globalist leadership simply does not bat an eye at causing wars, large or small. To a normal person, the thought is rather surreal. One has to keep in mind that these are people who actually planned and succeeded at effectively “capturing” national governments, much the way a local wealthy businessman might want to load up the town council with his own men, a la Boss Hogg, just on a national scale.
Setting up all the various nations in the middle east after WWI, when the Ottoman Empire was chopped up, was intended to basically keep the middle east nations under good “stealth” control, allowing for the development of the oil resources in a cheap and reliable fashion. Remember that the Model T was first produced in 1908, and the first discovery of oil in Persia was in that same year. The world financial oligarchy based in New York and London, therefore, would have been keenly aware of the importance of mideast oil well before their first World War. Of course, the creation of the modern nation of Israel resulted in an even more difficult and complex dynamic than simply chopping up the Ottoman Empire, especially when the MB was used to provide organized inflammation. Having continual chaos in the region creates the situation that globalists desire, and once it got going, the cycle of attacks set up a virtual impossible quandry. Of course, the violence is now available to globalism worldwide, and there is not much that can be legitimately done to alleviate the situation other than keep trying to calm everyone down and, in boxing parlance, “send them back to their corners”. Every time national boundaries are moved, people are going to get upset. It’s a mess, and most normal people would rather see peace, but globalists undoubtedly sit and laugh about it, since they think the “little people” are idiots that deserve whatever abuse globalism dishes out to them.
Interestingly, though a subsidiary/joint venture of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil started extracting oil from Saudi Arabia in the late 1930’s, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia did not completely purchase the jointly owned oil company until the 1980’s. It’s a much better deal to purchase the raw material from a subsidiary than from an unrelated entity, obviously. It’s analagous to a restauranteur who owns his own ranch buying his own beef to sell in his restaurant, he’s getting it at cost and has complete control of the whole process.
It’s all designed to keep governments under reasonably effective control of globalism. When it comes time sign contracts, decide on laws regarding international trade, foreign investment, etc., the governments under globalist control will obviously pretty much do what globalists want.
In advanced countries that have elections, the elections allow globalism to put their minions into power.
In more backward countries with primitive “king/populace” type governance, globalism simply gins up a revolt to “fire” a leader if he gets on their bad side, then tries to get one of their own guys installed as the new leader. If their choice does not get in, they just keep jostling around over the years until they do get someone in. They have endless cash, business opportunities, community organizers and thugs at their disposal to get the job done. Since WWII, they don’t even have to pay for it all because the US Federal budget has slush money for the State Department to dole out to “developing nations”.
Perhaps, for some readers, this makes the answer to the question of why global financial interests would want to “capture” nations and have good control over their intelligence agencies a little easier to fathom.
NSA workers told ABC News that they routinely eavesdropped on phone sex between troops serving overseas and their loved ones in America. They listened in on both satellite phone calls and calls from the phone banks in Iraq’s Green Zone where soldiers call home. Former Navy Arab linguist, David Murfee Faulk described how a coworker would say, “Hey, check this out… there’s good phone sex or there’s some pillow talk, pull up this call, it’s really funny, go check it out.” Faulk explained they would gossip about the best calls during breaks. “It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, ‘Wow, this was crazy.’”
It may be time for Jefferson’s admonition,
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ”
But see it’s the financial oligarchy over and above (and inside) the government(s).
If the government disappears tomorrow, and a new one reappears the next day, the oligarchs will have new men putting humpty dumpty together again.
We’ll think we have a “new government”, but we’ll still be working for the same people. And they’ll want us to pay the $17 trillion we owe.
The oligarchy is the problem that needs fixin’.
ANOTHER LYING DEMOCRAT!!!
> Lying to Congress ?
PERJURY before Congress.
More perjruy from this criminal regime.
Of course, but what's a little perjury between friends? Just ask Erik Holder.
5.56mm
Another Clapper caper.
People are forgetting that this government has identified Tea Partiers, gun control advocates and other conservatives as “terrorists”. When we read that the phone spying efforts were aimed at rooting out terrorists and their networks, I do not think that the government thinks that “terrorist” means what we think it means. I think that they wanted to monitor US calling patterns to identify conservatives and their allies.
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