yeah, right... 
Posted on 06/07/2013 4:26:05 PM PDT by RummyChick
The National Security Agency has at times mistakenly intercepted the private email messages and phone calls of Americans who had no link to terrorism, requiring Justice Department officials to report the errors to a secret national security court and destroy the data, according to two former U.S. intelligence officials.
At least some of the phone calls and emails were pulled from among the hundreds of millions stored by telecommunications companies as part of an NSA surveillance program. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, Thursday night publicly acknowledged what he called “a sensitive intelligence collection program” after its existence was disclosed by the Guardian newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at openchannel.nbcnews.com ...
Trust is gone for all. I don’t believe for one second that this WH can be trusted. They’ll use any means to achieve their agenda, lies, intimidation, or blackmail.
yeah, right...
And they will get naming rights to a bridge in Lower Manhattan as a bonus!
Bureaucratic SNAFUs, just like the Clinton “mistakenly” pulling FBI files on Republicans.
I'll tell you all this.
If I were a local CEO for a growing non-American internet service provider or SNS in Asia, such as Rakuten, Softbank, Naver, Daum, Cywood, Thai Telecom, KT, SKBroadband, Malaysia Telecom etc. etc. and I wanted to knock the position of GOOGLE or FACEBOOK right out of the playing field as they try to make inroads to Asia to get Asian customers, I would run print and TV ads on the whole sordid NSA PRISM deal and in so many words (in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Malay, Thai, whatever) indicate that "if you sign up with one of these American Service Providers or SNS companies you are opening yourself up to being monitored in both your texting and e mails and voice/video mails by their Government Agencies". I think it might be the marketing and sales ploy of the century, to eat into the inroads being made by for example Google in Japan or other parts of Asia, for their local Japanese/Asian competitors could simply point out their are beholden to US NSA and that Japanese/Asian citizens would unduly loose their rights of privacy by signing up with ANY of these American firms which went with Obama and NSA and Prism.
This could amount for millions of dollars of loss of immediate revenue, customers, alliances, partners for Facebook, Google, YouTube, you name it, in international markets and a considerable competitive loss for their positions here. Then they would REALLY be screaming bloody murder back in D.C with the policy makers working for "The One" whom many of these Silicon Valley chieftans supported and continued to support. How freaking ironic!
Right up there with “the dog ate my Constitution...”
Our government is out-of-control
No. Completely in control—of us.
And America just happened to have elected an ineligible POTUS - twice. With some precents coming in at 99-100% and some bragging they voted multiple times. Oops, sorry, insignificant minor mistakes. Nothing to see, move along.
Nice graphic—good to get the message/quote out!
“So that’s one of the ways they got to Chief Justice John Roberts.”
“Justice” Roberts was compromised at least as early as 2005, and his crimes occurred years earlier.
The gubmint is free to listen to your phone calls and read your emails...since these were not around at the time the 4th Amendment was incorporated, right?
Apparently that’s how The Regime reads it:
Justice Department Expands Hunt for Data on Cellphones
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/justice-department-expands-hunt-for-data-on-cellphones/
Obama’s NSA eavesdropping goes beyond that of Bush... after campaigning on the promise of: “ No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me!”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html
headlines read:” NSA Exceeds Legal Limits In Eavesdropping Program” , “ U.S. phone intercepts go beyond legal limits” , and “NSA Found Improperly Spying on Americans”.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123985123667923961.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE53F09820090416
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/justice-dept-nsa-improperly-spied-americans/
Just a little whoopsie!
"finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. ""I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
1. Ideological subversion is the process which is [a] legitimate, old word, and open. You can see it with your own eyes. All American mass media has to do is to "unplug bananas" from their ears, open up their eyes, and they can see it. There is no mystery.It has nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage intelligence gathering looks more romantic. It sells more deodorants through the advertising. That's probably why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond types of films. But in reality the main emphasis of the KGB is NOT in the area of intelligence at all.According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.The first stage being "demoralization".
It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles.Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution.Same way as in a small town of Hua in South Vietnam; several thousands of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by [the] Viet Cong for only two days; and American CIA could never figure out - how could [the communists] possibly know each Individual, where he lives, where to get him; and [in order that they] would be arrested in one night basically in four hours before dawn, put on a van, driven out of the city limits and shot.The answer is very simple. Long before communists occupy the city, there was extensive network of informers; local Vietnamese citizens who knew absolutely everything about people who are instrumental in public opinion - including Barbers and Taxi Drivers. Everyone who was sympathetic to United States was executed. Same thing was done under the guidance of the Soviet Embassy in Hanoi, and same thing I was doing in New Delhi. To my horror, I discovered that in the files were people who were doomed to execution. There were names of pro-Soviet Journalists, with whom I was personally friendly..."--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
Sure they did, wink wink. the computer that sent them to the printer still stores the numbers so by destroying the paper dont mean diddlie squat. Impeachment is the only sure way.
Yeah, I’m sure NBC would have posted that same headline if that had been George W. Bush’s administration. The media is just rolling over like a dead dog these days.
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