Posted on 06/09/2013 10:09:39 PM PDT by knak
You nailed it. This is about suppressing dissent in America, and is a close cousin of the IRS scandal.
If it was about catching moslems terrorists, we wouldn’t have a moslem as director of the CIA. We wouldn’t have open borders. We would have arrested Hassan and deprted the Tsarnaev brothers,,,, etc etc.
The WaPo? That's a laugh.
, if his intent was to make money, he could have “shopped” it to several foreign governments.
Foreign governments aren't interested in sorting through so much trash. They want very specific information.
If it was directed at catching terrorists, they wouldn’t be getting to the point of executing their plots like they are. When GWB was directing things, we nailed these people in the planning stage.
I can get that information from phone directories, search engines and Google maps and photos.
the governments inefficiency
Evident from who they hired.
There is no way that scale of collusion could exist. Not in this era.
Your senses should be telling you something is wrong with the picture being present to you.
Exactly how do you know that to be a fact?
Again, many suspected or knew. Why the venom towards anyone who still believed our government was following the constitution? Why the anger towards anyone who was willing for apparently unselfish reasons to expose this behavior?
It wasn’t all over the news before he did this. A blow against Obama at a moment he is embattled is nothing but something to applaud.
I guess you must just think that nothing the intel community does is wrong and that nobody should ever betray them. You also seem to be hung up on showing everyone how smart you are, and that you knew it all long ago. Whatever your motivation, I cannot become angry at this man for what he did and see no evil in it.
Ok, you’re right. He’s a bad bad spy. As bad as Manning! And the media will soon be filled with stories saying so.
And the NSA and CIA are the good guys. We are LUCKY to have them.
This guy was a selfish lawbreaking criminal and is pond scum! You convinced me.
The Intel community is a tool, just like the technology based programs like PRISM are tools. We trust these tools to very few people, and currently we've entrusted them to a man who appears to lack a moral compass, and shows no visible affection for this country or it's traditions.
The technology was bound to evolve anyway, that's the nature of technology. The only way to fix this is to only entrust these tools to honorable, true Americans.
It might help accelerate the end game. I’m pretty sure this only concludes with a massive economic collapse and a lot of screaming. No one is going to vote in any Republic loving Constitutionalists, only “I gotta get what I can before the music stops” types, with rare enclave like exceptions.
The cancer has metastasized widely and deeply.
Just going to park this article here...going to bed..night folks..will pick this up tomorrow.
Pentagon Has No Idea What Contractors Are Doing............
According to CRS, there are now 108,000 private workers in Afghanistan, a workforce that dwarfs the 65,700 American troops still stationed there.
That means there are 1.6 contractors for every American soldier in Afghanistan. This is an increase from last month, when The Fiscal Times reported that there were 1.4 contractors per American soldier.
Given the size of the private forces, it’s not surprising that CRS found that in recent years, the Defense Department spent more than any other agency to support contractor work.
“Over the last six fiscal years, DOD obligations for contracts performed in the Iraq and Afghanistan areas of operation were approximately $160 billion and exceeded total contract obligations of any other U.S. federal agency,” CRS found.
Not because they are unwilling to target Muslims, but because they ARE willing to target what they correctly see as the greatest threat to their technocratic authoritarianism, which is the Liberty loving American Citizen...
Amazing how the US leftwing press is scrambling...
That's part of your problem. Shouldn't we have some background on this patriotic, benevolent whistleblower? What qualifications did he have? Who hired him? When? Who gave him the authority to wiretap nearly everyone in the US, including Obama, as he claimed? How about a few details as to how this could be done. Certainly there had to be others who had knowledge of this. Are they all Obamabots?
Why not just answer the question and save your emotional outbursts?
Not as long as the majorities in the big electoral states are beneficiaries of government largesse.
http://www.freep.com/article/20130609/NEWS07/306090147/Who-NSA-whisteblower-Edward-Snowden-
Who is NSA whisteblower Edward Snowden?
Snowden grew up in Elizabeth City, N.C., but his family eventually moved to a gray-shingled house in Ellicott City, Md., near NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the Guardian reported. He did not complete high school and instead earned a GED certificate. Snowden did not finish community college, where he studied computers.
In 2003, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, but broke both his legs in a Special Forces training accident and was discharged, he told the Guardian.
His first NSA job was as a security guard at an agency facility at the University of Maryland in College Park, the Guardian reported. Next, he worked on IT security at the CIA. One job in 2007 took him to Geneva, where he maintained computer network security for the CIA, the paper said.
Snowden told The Guardian that he had left his job and his girlfriend in Hawaii on May 20, giving her a vague reason for his travel. The AP discovered that he and his girlfriend moved out of their Honolulu-area home on May 1, “leaving nothing behind,” because the landlord wanted to sell it.
Bradley Manning actually got people killed.
According to their real estate lady, Snowden and his female partner left their Honolulu home in early May.
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