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There are some real gems in that LAT piece that Greenwald labels as propaganda[1]: >What the Church and Pike committees found" nearly 40 years ago was "that p
by mcphilip 13y ago
There are some real gems in that LAT piece that Greenwald labels as propaganda[1]:
>What the Church and Pike committees found" nearly 40 years ago was "that people were doing things that were wrong. That's not happening here," Alexander said.
The particular definition of wrong used by Alexander would be interesting to know.
>"When you're the good guy and you're on the side of truth and democracy and the American way, anything that is an impediment to you is naturally bad and needs to be overcome, even if it's the law," German said.
Apparently the ability to have private communication digitally is one such annoying impediment.
>Now, Russian ground commanders and Al Qaeda cell leaders are on notice that the NSA is nearly everywhere.
Those evil Russian ground commanders... One tip for the author of this piece: Snowden leaks enabling child pornographers to avoid surveillance would be a much more effective appeal to emotion than a topical example like renewed fears of Russian aggression that risk fading from the zeitgeist soon!
[1]http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-alexander-nsa-20140331,0,3369988,full.story#vcomment http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-alexander-nsa-20140331,0...
- happyscrappy 13y agoYou could hardly dream up a better way to quash Europe's anger at the NSA's spying than Russia taking back pieces of the Soviet empire, surreal.
- dasil003 13y agoWhoah, queue the next level of conspiracy theories. Now that everything the tinfoil hats were saying a decade ago is revealed as 100% real and operational, we need to go to the next level Inception-style.
- Perdition 13y agoI have been joking with my friends that Obama called up Putin and told him to put on a side-show.
- sitkack 13y agoNo joke. We couldn't have asked for anything better than this. Pure Gold!
- mercurial 13y agoI'm not sure what anger you are talking about here. Nobody is demonstrating in the streets. Angela Merkel is unhappy that her phone was targeted, but what of it? As for the various national security apparatuses, they were already part of the system.
- yk 13y ago> The particular definition of wrong used by Alexander would be interesting to know. Probably the definition includes, "found in a congressional report."
- paulannesley 13y agoI believe the “When you're the good guy …“ quote by Michael German is sarcasm, or perhaps that's the wrong word and he's speaking from the point of view of Keith Alexander. The article says German is at the Brennan Center for Justice, a civil liberties organization, and believes that Alexander's world view "reflects a career in the national security bubble".
- mcphilip 13y agoGood catch. My reading comprehension isn't up to par today, apparently.
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- duaneb 13y agoNot to mention that if anyone is unaware the NSA is watching, they will make pretty terrible criminals. The proof has only emerged recently, but it's not like anyone actually thought the NSA wasn't spying on its citizens.