Posted on 03/12/2014 4:26:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Oh, now they’ve done it.
They picked on the wrong people this time.
The C.I.A. has apparently been spying on Congress.
I know. Who would have seen that coming?
Spies spying on people? That’s like lawyers legislating or something.
Oh wait….
So, Congress is really, really mad at the C.I.A. now.
According to a story by the New York Times, the C.I.A. snooped on Senate staffers in order to find out how the Senate got internal C.I.A. documents, some of which were critical of “agency’s detention and interrogation program. Parts of the C.I.A. report cast a particularly harsh light on the program, the same program the agency was in the midst of defending in a prolonged dispute with the [Senate] intelligence committee.”
Yes, the Senate found nothing to be riled up about when Fast and Furious happened; nothing in the IRS targeting scandal; nothing about the botched handling of the Boston Bombing suspects; nothing in the NSA spying scandal; nothing to see in the White House targeting of journalists.
But now they are finally getting dose of what the rest of us are living with every day as we log on to the Internet or make a phone calls.
Hmmm, I wonder who’s listening to me…now? Or right now? Or now?
“On the Senate floor Tuesday,” reports the San Jose Mercury News, “Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the C.I.A. searched computers used by Senate staff to investigate the C.I.A., confirming a story reported by the New York Times last week.”
And she followed up: "I have grave concerns that the C.I.A.'s search may well have violated the separation-of-powers principles embodied in the U.S. Constitution," as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Anytime a Democrat cites separation of powers AND the Constitution in the same sentence, you know we are Through the Looking Glass.
I thought "separation of powers" and the "Constitution' were only used by liberals as punchlines at sophisticated cocktail parties where government employees eat brie and arugula while arranging federal "green loans" for their bankrupt buddies.
Getting past my relief that someone is finally looking at what the Senate is doing, I’m wondering where Feinstein has been all this time.
Because I know where she was a few months ago, besides that sophisticated cocktail party.
Let’s check in with our crack investigator, Google Chrome, who will bring us up to date:
“I think a lot of the privacy people perhaps don’t understand that we still occupy the role of the Great Satan,” Feinsten told NBCNews. She was responding to Obama unveiling new “privacy” laws-- billed as oversight and reform-- but which could expand the use of domestic monitoring in the name of making the “homeland” free, if not a little less brave.
“New bombs are being devised, new terrorists are emerging, new groups — uh, actually, a new level of viciousness, and I think we need to be prepared. I think we need to do it in a way that respects people’s privacy rights.”
Sure, just like the C.I.A. respected your privacy rights, right Mrs. Feinstein?
Or Obamacare respects the privacy rights of my family and me.
Or Common Core respects the privacy rights of students and teachers.
Or the IRS respects the privacy of that non-profit down the street.
Or Dodd-Frank respects the privacy of banking customers.
Or anyone, from any political party, respects the rights of border agents not to get shot with guns peddled by the federal government.
When Democrats stop writing legislation that contains "data collection," personal and identifiable, as one of its prime components, maybe the rest of us will start to have more respect for the privacy of the Senate.
Us "privacy people," we know who represents the Great Satan here at home, Mrs. Feinstein.
The question is: Do you?
And the answer is: Yeah, probably.
The HATED, EXEMPT do not like to be the focus
of their own-generated evil.
But, but, but, it’s THEIR CIA now....
And still they criticize.
What do these people want?
The “good news” is that she was able to go public. How many times has the CIA found enough dirt to silence a congressperson and get a report (or vote) changed?
It may not have happened yet, but the technology they have in place makes that a future certainty if it’s allowed to stay. And once they start down that path they can chip away at restrictions until they have free reign over all communication and significant power to change congressional oversight and even elections to get the congress they want. It may be a multi-year process or a multi-decade process depending on how corrupt congress and the CIA director are any point but things will never take a step backwards into the people’s favor.
I don’t care what safeguards and policies they have in place. The “opportunities” of these technologies are just too attractive for some people not to take advantage of - and we are talking about people who’s main job is being a spy and who honestly believe that increasing their capabilities will increase our safety.
In one little sentence, you nailed it.
Hows it feel to be a serf? only for a brief time I’m sure.
This reads like a John Semmens satire piece.
Visualize Feinstein’s reaction to finding out that a Republican president’s CIA was monitoring her personal communication. The words “thermonuclear explosion” come to mind.
> “I think a lot of the privacy people perhaps don’t understand that we still occupy the role of the Great Satan,” Feinsten told NBCNews. She was responding to Obama unveiling new “privacy” laws— billed as oversight and reform— but which could expand the use of domestic monitoring in the name of making the “homeland” free, if not a little less brave.
Let me point out the obvious, Ms. Feinstein. We DO have Satan’s representative, the AntiChrist, leading this country.
The Narcissus-in-chief could not find enough people praising him from the NSA, he had to get the CIA to look at the Bolshies in Congress.
"free rein"
</Net nanny>
Thank you.
Pet peeve. Like "hone in on" and "winding his way home" and "pouring intently over" ("home", "wending", "poring").
Given Feinstein’s connections to Shrimpboy and Yee and their involvement in arms smuggling and Yee’s coziness with the terror group MILF, and Feinstein’s hubby Blum’s involvement with the People’s Republic of China, maybe Feinstein needs to be spied on.
Who gave her docs on the interrogation program? The same people, perhaps, who gave photographs of CIA personnel to terrorists at Gitmo?
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