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Jeb Bush Praises Obama’s Expansion of NSA Surveillance
The Intercept ^
| 4/21/15
| Glenn Greenwald
Posted on 04/21/2015 6:18:09 PM PDT by markomalley
One of the most glaring myths propagated by Washington especially the two parties media loyalists is that bipartisanship is basically impossible, that the two parties agree on so little, that they are constantly at each others throats over everything. As is so often the case for Washington partisan propaganda, the reality is exactly the opposite: from trade deals to Wall Street bailouts to a massive National Security and Penal State, the two parties are in full agreement on the bulk of the most significant D.C. policies (which is why the leading candidates of the two parties (from Americas two ruling royal families) will have the same funding base). But because policies that command the agreement of the two parties establishments are largely ignored by the D.C. press in favor of the issues where they have some disagreements, the illusion is created that they agree on nothing.
To illustrate how true this all is, consider the comments today of leading GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush. He appeared on Michael Medveds conservative talk radio program, and was asked by the host what his favorite part of the Obama administration has been. His answer? As McClatchys Lesley Clark noted on Twitter, Bush hailed Obamas enhancement of NSA. The audio was first posted by Ian Hanchett and is embedded below; here is the full transcript of the exchange:
Medved: If you were to look back at the last seven years, almost, what has been the best part of the Obama administration?
Jeb Bush: I would say the best part of the Obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs, the NSA being enhanced. Advancing this even though he never defends it, even though he never openly admits it, there has been a continuation of a very important service, which is the first obligation, I think of our national government is to keep us safe. And the technologies that now can be applied to make that so, while protecting civil liberties are there. And hes not abandoned them, even though there was some indication that he might.
Its hardly unusual for even the most extremist right-wing Republicans to praise Obamas foreign policy. GOP Congressman Peter King has repeatedly done just that, hailing Obamas use of drones, assassination of a U.S. citizen with no due process, his upholding of indefinite detention powers, and the truncating of Miranda rights in terrorism cases. Just this week, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham who has advocated bombing almost more Muslim countries in the last decade than he has fingers said that he prefers Obamas foreign policy over Rand Pauls. A bipartisan coalition of Congressional outsiders tried in late 2013 to defund the NSA domestic spying program and almost succeeded, but the union of the parties establishments the Obama White House, John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi whipped just enough votes to protect the program.
The cause of NSA mass surveillance has been particularly embraced by many Democrats because it was Obama doing it (as Ive said before, if Edward Snowden had leaked this information when a Republican was in the Oval Office, there would be a massive statue erected of him outside of the MSNBC studios, where he is now often vilified). And now, Jeb Bush (in contrast to Rand Paul, who vowed to end NSA spying on Day One) has declared himself fully in support of that cause, hailing Obama for expanding these capabilities.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; jebbush; nsa; rino; spying; surveillance
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To: Windflier
shucks!
Im even mo OLD SKOO...than that..and call on my knowledge of Amos-n’Andybonix..... fairly often
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:04:16 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: markomalley; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
The biggest killer of mankind
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:06:54 PM PDT
by
null and void
(He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
To: markomalley
Go all-in, Jeb.
Call for a repeal of the Second Amendment.
GO FOR GOLD!
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:11:25 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
To: markomalley; All
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:11:53 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Toespi; Travis McGee
Typical, he thinks he has a lock on the repub vote, so he is doing the predictable.....going for the Dem and independent vote. As usual, he wont get them and the republicans wont show up. See, that's the thing.
Dems and Indys hate the NSA stuff, too.
So he's not even going for THOSE.
What he's going for is the Globalist police-state elite.
Which tells me something interesting about the election process. It looks like it might not MATTER how Americans vote.
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:14:24 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
To: MeshugeMikey
Im even mo OLD SKOO...than that..and call on my knowledge of Amos-nAndybonix..... fairly often Now, that IS old. Radio version or TV version?
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:28:39 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: markomalley
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:30:08 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:32:50 PM PDT
by
stevio
(God, guns, guts.)
To: markomalley
No wonder people think Jeb could beat Hillary.
He *IS* Hillary! The more coherent version who agrees with her, without the stiff hip and the limp.
Put him in a pantsuit and he wins. Right? /s
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:37:19 PM PDT
by
RitaOK
( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
To: markomalley
That Bush boy ain’t right.....
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posted on
04/21/2015 7:48:07 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
To: markomalley
Is this guy for freakin’ real? Has he talked to a regular person in the past decade. Seriously. A Jeb nomination is the birth of a new party.
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posted on
04/21/2015 8:45:01 PM PDT
by
ilgipper
To: Organic Panic
I will write in the name of Ted Cruz if the dirtbag John Ellis Bush is the nominee.
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posted on
04/21/2015 8:50:22 PM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Hitlery Rotten Clinton should be in a federal prison, NOT in the Oval Office.)
To: markomalley
Neither the Bushes, the Clintons, nor the Obamas believe in privacy or free speech for American citizens.
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posted on
04/21/2015 9:05:17 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: markomalley; Old Sarge; EnigmaticAnomaly; Califreak; kalee; TWhiteBear; freeangel; Godzilla; ...
Jeb Bush Praises 0bamas Expansion of NSA Surveillance
Look! Jeb will continue 0bama's policies. Good grief. We won't even know whether 0 departed Dee Cee, or if he still props his feet on the 0val 0ffice desk.
/Jeb Bush. No. More. Bushes.
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posted on
04/21/2015 9:20:43 PM PDT
by
LucyT
To: LucyT
So the difference between Jeb and b0nehead is..................................................NOTHING!!
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posted on
04/21/2015 10:12:53 PM PDT
by
azishot
(God made man but Samuel Colt made them equal.)
To: Lazamataz; Toespi; Travis McGee
What he's going for is the Globalist police-state elite.
Which tells me something interesting about the election process. It looks like it might not MATTER how Americans vote.
Laz, you're catchin' on ! We actually should fear a Repub President in 2016 most of all. I think that is what NWO wants for that year.
IMHO...
Right now, with a Republican-controlled Congress and Democrat administration, there is quite a bit of limitation on what new legislation will politically "fly". So NWO's law factory, the Congress, can't make enormous strides using Congress on behalf of NWO - though they certainly can keep NWOs basic diabolical government immorality and NWO businesses growing fat on tax slave dollars moving quite well, since everyone in Congress "agrees" that more taxes and more immorality are "good". It's been good for NWO, getting their deathcare system dramatically strengthened, etc., but now they have some wars they need the American sheeple to fight for them. It's time to temporarily end "conservative opposition" and once again align the Executive and Legislative branches of government on the side of "neocon-ism".
What I'm guessing the plan for the 2016 "Republican" President is:
1) relatively quietly but dramatically ramp up the domestic para-military police mechanisms inside the United States (the Repub President will not direct this at Bible believing Christians and 2A people, so they will "not mind it". If you're conservative and don't "support the President" in this buildup, you'll be called a leftist, etc. This means way more spying on individuals, legal clearance to do all sorts of domestic espionage/covert/overt "defence/law enforcement" activity, dramatically more training for this domestic paramilitary, etc., etc. The dream of the elites taking shape in the US, but relatively quietly, presented as a "good thing". Conservatives will all sleep soundly at night, knowing that "their guy" is "at the helm" (even though he will be NWO's "guy", like it or not).
2) NWO has a few foreign wars they want America to prosecute, and the bloodline/mindcontrol/bot they have in the White House at this point is not the minion who is designed to do the job, simply because his carefully NWO-crafted public persona and "biography" is a "leftist" and he is in the "left-leaning" political party, the Democrats. So NWO can't really whip up the propaganda machine for a lot of public war activity without the Democratic party being thought of as the "party that got us into a huge war", a designation they reserve for their other political party, the "Republicans". That's why the US/NWO "special forces" operations going on in well over 100 countries are kept very thoroughly minimized in the press or completely out of the press. This would mean that false flag operations would be in the planning stages now, so Americans will have more "days to never forget" after our "hero" takes office.
3) Laying the groundwork for identifying those Christian pastors and "devout" Christians in smaller Protestant denominations who don't accept the perversion and merging of Christianity with NWO policies and agendas. The mainstream large denominations are already firmly in NWO's control; it's just the remnant that NWO needs to stomp out, so the "sheeple" of America don't accidentally get their minds "polluted" with any actual truth. The 2016 Republican administration and it's top people (like all administrations they will simply be NWO minions) will very quietly do their end of preparation for eventual liquidation of true believers, while the media, education, NWO NGOs, etc., all work on their part of the project. True believers will be continually socially marginalized, but not actively persecuted by government except for lawsuits, etc., that we see now. The administration will simply develop their domestic espionage capabilities against "terrorists", internally developing their target lists, while they train/program government/contractor paramilitary forces to willingly operate against domestic "terrorists" with extreme prejudice. "Conservatives" will hail the wondrous security initiatives and strong defence policies of the administration, even while that same administration continues the unending ties the US government and its true rulers have with intel agencies all around the world, even with nations that conservatives are told are the "enemies" of America. "Conservative" sheeple will mostly see the administration through the lenses of their Top Gun and James Bond fantasies.
4) A 2016 Republican administration would be tasked with the same groundwork-laying in terms of gun owners. Gun owners would be more difficult to politically mobilize as details of the machinery of government undergo subtle but significant changes that will later have deadly consequences. Under a Republican administration - especially if the administration outwardly feigned support of the 2A - conservatives can be lulled into a false sense of security regarding gun ownership.
The whole 8 years would be a preparation for a future lefist administration that would then use all the legal/legislative/policy "tools" and the espionage and paramilitary capabilities the prior "conservative" had put in place - and simply turn them on Christians, gun owners, homeschoolers, vaccine non-conformers, etc. A whole load of atrocities could then be perpetrated that would be within the bounds of law. The supporters of the leftist adminstration would snarkily tell the then actively persecuted "clingers to guns and Bibles" - "elections have consequences".
It would be essential for the NGOs of NWO, the entertainment and news media, the schools, the intelligentsia, celebrities, etc., to continue all during the "preparation phase" under a Republican administration to keep pushing public opinion against those "evil ideas" of the Bible, guns, resistance to government programs, etc. Movies, school curricula, corporate policies, etc., would keep ostracizing the targeted groups, increasingly marginalizing them socially. A key part of the tactic is forcing acceptance of anything but those targeted things, such as any religion other than Christianity, any stance on crime/self defense/hunting other than purely the 2A, etc. So if a mosque is built in town, all NWO's local resources would promote it as much as possible. If a Buddhist campaigns against firearms, he'd receive local NWO support. Etc.
Pretty much I see things as "more of the same" as we see now - except that currently we have a Democrat administration and Repub Congress, thus NWO is being slowed down at this point, kind of just marking time and doing their planning and prep work for their scheduled "events" during the next administration.
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posted on
04/21/2015 10:23:04 PM PDT
by
PieterCasparzen
(Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.)
To: markomalley
I think Jeb is actually going to run against Hillary.
For the Democrat nomination.
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posted on
04/21/2015 11:05:35 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: FredZarguna
The difference is, the writers actually made it work for the fictional character of George Costanza.
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posted on
04/21/2015 11:06:21 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: markomalley
How does it go...
A turd in the hand, is still better than Jeb Bush?
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posted on
04/21/2015 11:11:27 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: markomalley
Jeb has been tapped. Eery has been tapped. The only remaining question for us is which one our overseers will inaugurate.
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