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Janet Napolitano Denies Existence of ‘Orwellian State’
Politicker ^ | June 14, 2013 | Jill Colvin

Posted on 06/15/2013 1:15:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano weighed in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown.

“I think people have gotten the idea that there’s an Orwellian state out there that somehow we’re operating in. That’s far from the case,” she told Errol Louis during an appearance on Road to City Hall.

Despite civil liberties advocates’ fears that monitoring efforts have gone too far, “there are lots of protections built into the system,” Ms. Napolitano said, pointing to a privacy office embedded in her own department that is “constantly reviewing our policies and procedures.” She further stressed the court review system.

“No one should believe that we are simply going willy-nilly and using any kind of data that we can gather,” she said.

Still, she acknowledged the federal government hasn’t done the best job of keeping the public informed about how it is treating the enormous amounts of personal information that could potentially be used in intelligence gathering.

“I think we need to do a better job of explaining to the American people exactly what is kept, what are the real restrictions on how—I’m just talking now for DHS, Department of Homeland Security–how we use it, how long we can keep it, how we share it, all those thing,” she explained....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this satire?


41 posted on 06/15/2013 6:03:27 AM PDT by Errant
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They don’t call her Big Sis for nothing


42 posted on 06/15/2013 6:06:08 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Who will shoot Liberty Valence?)
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To: Olog-hai

Napoleonitano


43 posted on 06/15/2013 6:06:44 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: nathanbedford
I wonder what name Janet Napolitano uses on her secret e-mail accounts?

Napoleonitano

44 posted on 06/15/2013 6:07:51 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Are we fundamentally transformed yet?


45 posted on 06/15/2013 6:13:27 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Related?

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/janet-napolitano-email-89317.html

3/26/13

Janet Napolitano has no use for email


46 posted on 06/15/2013 6:14:12 AM PDT by maggief
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To: muawiyah
Long ago, when I first read 1984, it never dawned on me that there would be those who enthusiastically saw it as a blueprint.

I recall contrasting and comparing 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, both of which were intended as horrorshow alternate futures, and writing a paper in English Class in which I postulated that the future held in store a hybrid of the two.

I wish I had been wrong.

I have been thinking even more about H.G.Wells' Time Machine, and the Eloi and Morelocks thrive even today...

47 posted on 06/15/2013 8:44:07 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Indeed it’s all in your mind forget the facts trust me.


48 posted on 06/15/2013 10:08:17 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: antceecee
"Just the mere incidence that she would remark on this tells you that we should worry."

No, no. Janet said:

“there are lots of protections built into the system,”

... and they have a "privacy office embedded in her own department that is “constantly reviewing our policies and procedures."

What more do you want? They review policies and procedures. They don't have any enforcement, they don't update, but they constantly "review" the rules...

49 posted on 06/15/2013 10:27:32 AM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Beyond 1984 which is scary enough all by itself, here’s my take,

As shown to Daniel, God uses beasts to describe governments (kings/kingdoms) in reference to the succeeding world powers that would come.

“The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand on the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.” (Babylon) Daniel 7:4

We the people, elect and bring into power those we feel are aligned with our own beliefs, a mans heart was given to it = Democracy

“I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” Daniel 7:8

Antichrist is a spirit (and was already at work in St Johns day) and its this spirit which empowers the “little horn” at the time of end where its also given that it can “see” like a man,

Its only within the last two decades, with the dramatic increase and widespread availability of new technologies, communication satellites, cell towers, personal computers and now global (Tower of Babel like) internet connectivity, smart phones, webcams etc., that individual activities of law abiding free citizens everywhere on the Earth are increasingly being watched, we’ve become a surveillance society, where our every move, purchase, credit transaction, web pages visited, blog postings, opinions, habits and political affiliations along with anything else they want to know about us can be monitored, tracked, indexed and stored away until (those in power) need it to “protect” (oppress) us,

Its this information for which they now have the “eyes” to see, that will forever (going forward) empower those in positions of influence and will be used to hinder or give pause to anyone on the outside of this power structure having never broken any law, to ever consider public service or to seek political office or promote any voice that fails to espouse politically acceptable ‘safe’ views, whereby it necessarily follows that freedom dies with it and their advantage is ever increasing,

This is not how its always been, this is not how its been even for that long of a time,

But they want us to assume its ‘normal’ knowing that any society for which its every collective thought is consumed with finding ways to bring themselves more entertainment, joy and self-gratification, they know will eventually shrug and give up their freedom and privacy when their comfortable existence is threatened. They just need appropriate events to be adequately exploited along the way to bring this fear,

Unfortunately for them at present, too many Americans have been used to having the personal freedoms guaranteed in the constitution, so their doing everything in their power to demean it (and them) and find events to exploit, while the world at large without this expectation can more readily become used to this amount of tyranny given enough time,

this is the spirit of antichrist at work,

Its the eyes of a man, imo,

And its this type of spirit that is increasingly rising in power when the end of the age comes and Jesus returns bodily to this Earth,

“I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.” Daniel 7:21-22


50 posted on 06/15/2013 1:19:15 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A simple comma undoes all that work...

“No, one should believe that we are simply going willy-nilly and using any kind of data that we can gather,” she said.

Soooooo, is one to suppose that while gathering data
some data is over looked?, rejected as being politically
off limits ? Or is it instead
collated and stored for future usefulness?


51 posted on 06/16/2013 1:15:50 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Gen.Blather

That’s the scary part. People who are attracted to government are attracted to it for all the wrong reasons. The lower levels for the opportunity government provides that merit would not and the top levels for that, plus the ability to exercise undue dominion.

Kakacracy is the status quo. It’s why we absolutely must have small government, light as a feather and just as inexpensive.


52 posted on 06/16/2013 6:58:36 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Her Butchness has often denied the existence of reality!


53 posted on 06/17/2013 12:32:22 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: nathanbedford

“Jimmy Hoffa”.. A fright wig, some crappy clothes ..


54 posted on 06/17/2013 4:07:31 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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