So forgive me if I don't believe the denials of the tech companies or the government. Anyone who does, really needs to read "No Place To Hide" by Glenn Greenwald. Not to mention the fact that we currently have a government headed by a pathological liar and his oligarch cronies......
Wow, the Feds are really pushing harder and faster than ever since the Snowden leaks. It seems something new is being reported daily about programs they are already using to illegally get data or about things they want to get in place before too many people wake up and get really pissed off.
So let me see if I understand this correctly, the "oath" to not divulge classified material trumps the oath to "faithfully execute the duties of your office" and the oath to "defend and UPHOLD the Constitutiton"? Hmmmmmmmm.
That is what computer algorithms are for. William Binney - "He was co-developer of the surveillance software called Thinthread, which only cost about $3.4 million and was intentionally designed to prevent monitoring of ?US persons? without a warrant. NSA Director Michael Hayden preferred a competing concept called Trailblazer that intentionally enabled monitoring without warrants, ended up costing $6-8 billion, and was never deployed"
The war with Iraq did not HAVE to happen in any way, shape or form. It was personal vendetta perpetrated by an idiot man child (Bush) and his cowardly hawkish master (Cheney). Saddam was contained and was a threat to no one other than his own people. He had no means of waging war against any of his neighbors. The war was predicated and waged upon lie after lie. Remember "mushroom clouds", "mobile bio terror labs" or maybe "Nigerian Uranium". The U.N. and every nation watching Iraq was fully aware of that Saddam's capabilities were. We were in no way on the "right side" of history in this one. Thousands of dead/wounded American (and other nations) solidiers and tens to hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi's. All for what? To satisfy a personal vendetta.
His "stockpiles" of chemical weapons were a) severely depleted b)constantly monitored/tracked by the U.S. and others and c) had been sold to him by who? The U.S.
Saddam also lacked the capacity to deliver what little he had in any meaningful of significant way. In regards to his so called nuclear program, that was utterly destroyed by the Israeilies in the 80's and he was nowhere near being able to enrich uranium much less create a bomb. Finally in regards to any type of biological program that was virtually non existent and once again lacked any vector for delivery.
As a former solider (Desert Shield/Storm vet) you sir/ma'am are an idiot. The oath is to "defend the Constitutiton from ALL enemies foreign AND domestic". Right now some of the BIGGEST enemies are domestic and are elected. Bradley Manning was doing what any good soldier should do.
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So forgive me if I don't believe the denials of the tech companies or the government. Anyone who does, really needs to read "No Place To Hide" by Glenn Greenwald. Not to mention the fact that we currently have a government headed by a pathological liar and his oligarch cronies......
Wow, the Feds are really pushing harder and faster than ever since the Snowden leaks. It seems something new is being reported daily about programs they are already using to illegally get data or about things they want to get in place before too many people wake up and get really pissed off.
the Oath?
So let me see if I understand this correctly, the "oath" to not divulge classified material trumps the oath to "faithfully execute the duties of your office" and the oath to "defend and UPHOLD the Constitutiton"? Hmmmmmmmm.
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That is what computer algorithms are for. William Binney - "He was co-developer of the surveillance software called Thinthread, which only cost about $3.4 million and was intentionally designed to prevent monitoring of ?US persons? without a warrant. NSA Director Michael Hayden preferred a competing concept called Trailblazer that intentionally enabled monitoring without warrants, ended up costing $6-8 billion, and was never deployed"
http://www.peterbcollins.com/2013/04/18/blockbuster-part-1-on-the-nsa-4-with-whistleblower-bill-binney-and-journalist-tim-shorrock/
Re: Re: Re: Re: "chance to fish in a sea of secrets"
The war with Iraq did not HAVE to happen in any way, shape or form. It was personal vendetta perpetrated by an idiot man child (Bush) and his cowardly hawkish master (Cheney). Saddam was contained and was a threat to no one other than his own people. He had no means of waging war against any of his neighbors. The war was predicated and waged upon lie after lie. Remember "mushroom clouds", "mobile bio terror labs" or maybe "Nigerian Uranium". The U.N. and every nation watching Iraq was fully aware of that Saddam's capabilities were. We were in no way on the "right side" of history in this one. Thousands of dead/wounded American (and other nations) solidiers and tens to hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi's. All for what? To satisfy a personal vendetta.
Re: Re: "chance to fish in a sea of secrets"
His "stockpiles" of chemical weapons were a) severely depleted b)constantly monitored/tracked by the U.S. and others and c) had been sold to him by who? The U.S.
Saddam also lacked the capacity to deliver what little he had in any meaningful of significant way. In regards to his so called nuclear program, that was utterly destroyed by the Israeilies in the 80's and he was nowhere near being able to enrich uranium much less create a bomb. Finally in regards to any type of biological program that was virtually non existent and once again lacked any vector for delivery.
Re: Re: Re: "chance to fish in a sea of secrets"
As a former solider (Desert Shield/Storm vet) you sir/ma'am are an idiot. The oath is to "defend the Constitutiton from ALL enemies foreign AND domestic". Right now some of the BIGGEST enemies are domestic and are elected. Bradley Manning was doing what any good soldier should do.