Posted on 06/13/2013 10:28:23 PM PDT by Zakeet
Complete Headline: Thousands Of Firms Trade Confidential Data With The US Government In Exchange For Classified Intelligence
The rabbit hole just got deeper. A whole lot deeper.
On Sunday we predicated that "there's one reason why the administration, James Clapper and the NSA should just keep their mouths shut as the PRISM-gate fallout escalates: with every incremental attempt to refute some previously unknown facet of the US Big Brother state, a new piece of previously unleaked information from the same intelligence organization now scrambling for damage control, emerges and exposes the brand new narrative as yet another lie, forcing even more lies, more retribution against sources, more journalist persecution and so on."
And like a hole that just gets deeper the more you dug and exposes ever more dirt, tonight's installment revealing one more facet of the conversion of a once great republic into a great fascist, "big brother" state, comes from Bloomberg which reports that "thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said."
The companies extend far wider than the legacy telcos, such as Verizon, that launched the entire NSA-spying scandal a week ago: "Makers of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers, satellite telecommunications companies and many other companies also participate in the government programs. In some cases, the information gathered may be used not just to defend the nation but to help infiltrate computers of its adversaries."
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
“All your Base Classes are berong to us. Ha Ha Ha”
>>Commerce cannot function in an atmosphere of distrust.
Seems to me that securing the ability of the governed to engage in EQUITABLE and FAIR commerce is part of the legitimate specified purpose for American governance:
“TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men”
Seems to me We need to re-form that. Don’t you agree?
>>Try setting up an Ebay account
Or a UPS account to track a lost shipment.
They asked questions I suspect were derived from credit report information.
Ain’t the revelation of the method game fun?
Look...
We can play too!
Absolutley agree, but a century of liberal teaching in a system designed to indoctrinate has created a lot of lost knowledge.
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