[nathanbedford]

No one should be surprised that yet another firewall has been breached. It was inevitable.

So we now have potentially dangerous government snooping combined with other government agencies waging a mindless and ultimately self-defeating drug war.

Which does more damage?

Wrong question because these two practices combined create an especially dangerous synergy.

This cannot end well.

[Southack]

See, this NSA law-breaking is handy. If some uppity General dares to question His Highness about Benghazi, then his email love letters to his mistress get revealed.

Poof! No more career for General Petraeus.

So it isn’t just terror and drug emails being read. The NSA is reading love letters, too.

It’s completely illegal. Completely corrupt.

[CMB_polarization]

Follow the money. Snooping and manipulation of data is ultimately a quest for ill-gotten gain.