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I just want to know, was Obama administration responsible for increased NSA surveillance? or was this something set in motion by the Royal George Bush Family In
by notastartup 13y ago
I just want to know, was Obama administration responsible for increased NSA surveillance? or was this something set in motion by the Royal George Bush Family Inc. and that can't be stopped? Seems like Obama is getting all the shit for something his predecessor set in motion and now cannot be stopped.
It seems like there's forces even more elite and powerful than the president that dictates what he can do and can't do and that he is largely a puppet with strings being pulled by stakeholders that benefits most from totalitarian power over it's peons.
Without Edward Snowden, this tyranny would've gone unnoticed for centuries. I think he should run for President.
- lukifer 13y agoSystematic dragnet spying is a holdover from Cold War thinking, and predates Bush II by decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee#Results_of_the_investigation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee#Results_of_the...
- oleganza 13y agoWhat's the point of electing a president if for 5 years he doesn't know what his government is doing?
- lukeschlather 13y agoKnowing is only half the battle. Possibly even less than that.
- ameister14 13y agoWell, Obama not only supports it, he definitely has the power to do something about it if he wanted to. He doesn't want to. It's not that it can't be stopped; if the President wanted to do so he could conceivably fire the CIA and the NSA.
- rurban 13y agoI don't think that the president has the effective power to do any harm to the security apparatus. He didn't even try so far, though it was rumored that he might go Bulworth some day. They probably have too much power and info over him. But at least he is still alive. JFK tried too but was eliminated by them, and afterwards only the Church committee tried to limit their power a bit, but not their budgets. The fact the Obama completely turned 180° on all security and constitutional matters from his senate times should tell you.