22 Nauseating Quotes From Hypocritical Establishment Politicians About The NSA Spying Scandal Michael Snyder
#1 Barack Obama: "I think it’s important to understand that you can’t have 100 percent security and then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We’re going to have to make some choices as a society."
#2 Barack Obama in 2007: "This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand… That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists… We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary."
#3 Speaker Of The House John Boehner on what he thinks about NSA leaker Edward Snowden: "He’s a traitor."
#4 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham: "I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice."
#5 U.S. Senator Al Franken: "I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people."
#6 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "For senators to complain that they didn’t know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to."
#7 U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell: "Given the scope of these programs, it’s understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what’s difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation’s enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
#8 U.S. Representative Peter King on why he believes that reporters should be prosecuted for revealing NSA secrets: "There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security."
#9 Director of National Intelligence James Clapper making a joke during an awards ceremony last Friday night: "Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up—so many emails to read!"
#10 Director Of National Intelligence James Clapper about why he lied about NSA spying in front of Congress: "I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner."
#11 National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden: "The president has full faith in director Clapper and his leadership of the intelligence community"
#12 White House press secretary Jay Carney: "...Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information"
#13 Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee: "There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper."
#14 Gus Hunt, the chief technology officer at the CIA: "We fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever."
#15 Barack Obama: "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls."
#16 Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency: "We do not see a tradeoff between security and liberty."
#17 An exchange between NSA director Keith Alexander and U.S. Representative Hank Johnson in March 2012...
JOHNSON: Does the NSA routinely intercept American citizens’ emails?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Does the NSA intercept Americans’ cell phone conversations?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Google searches?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Text messages?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Amazon.com orders?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Bank records?
ALEXANDER: No.
#18 Deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino: "The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks"
#19 U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss: "This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years."
#20 Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton on NSA leaker Edward Snowden: "Let me ask, who died and made him king? Who gave him the authority to endanger 300 million Americans? That's not the way it works, and if he thinks he can get away with that, he's got another think coming."
#21 Senior spokesman for the NSA Don Weber: "Given the nature of the work we do, it would be irresponsible to comment on actual or alleged operational issues; therefore, we have no information to provide"
#22 The White House website: "My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration."
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
According to those that have seen it, the "Obama database" is unlike anything that any politician has ever put together before. According to CNSNews.com, U.S. Representative Maxine Waters says that this database "will have information about everything on every individual"...
"The president has put in place an organization that contains a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life," she added. "That’s going to be very, very powerful." Martin asked if Waters if she was referring to "Organizing for America." "That’s right, that’s right," Waters said. "And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before."
Waters said the database would also serve future Democratic candidates seeking the presidency. Perhaps this helps to explain why so many big donors got slapped with IRS audits immediately after they wrote big checks to the Romney campaign.
We are being told to "trust" Barack Obama and the massive government surveillance grid that is being constructed all around us, but there has been example after example of government power being grossly abused in recent years.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I would not have supported Jim Crow laws then just as I don't support voting right laws being proposed today that limit the rights of all classes to vote. To say that those laws were 'legal' is a fact, to say that those laws were 'just' is a different matter.
Watching you protect and justify unconstitutional laws today leads me to the belief you wouldn't have changed a thing back then, especially if it was under a democrat administration. To say it was legal even though unconstitutional is exactly the problem we have today, the law of the land would deem it illegal, some lousy scum in Washington pass a law saying it is legal doesn't make it so, that is why we have the law of the land the constitution. Sad part is many had to die and get beaten by the government thugs just to get their constitutional rights recognized.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
The govt didn't show "proof" of BinLaden's death, they showed 'evidence'. Just as I keep asking for your 'evidence' that the story is a hoax.
So if I showed you a $1 bill and told you I just found $5,000,000 all in hundreds would you believe me, I doubt it, that is what our government did.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
You can question anything, of course, just as I question the motives and agenda of Henry's coming war against Obama's Black Army.
Huh? LMAO
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
The thing that bothers me most about this guy is that Bush never made any pretense about what he stood for. If people were dumb enough to buy into that "kind of guy you could have a beer with" (Bush didn't drink) nonsense it was their own stupid fault. Obama, on the other hand, shamelessly played some very desperate, vulnerable people with his hope and change crap.
but he played the public like a well tuned cello
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Europeans ‘shocked and angry’ by ‘unaccountable’ American surveillance Europeans ‘shocked and angry’ by ‘unaccountable’ American surveillance in Breaking News 8 hours ago
The recent NSA leaks have awakened many Europeans to the “disturbing” privacy violations regularly committed by the US that their own governments facilitated and may have benefited from, Jim Killock, the executive director of Open Rights Group, told RT.
European lawmakers have publicly condemned US authorities after Edward Snowden, a former CIA technician and contracted NSA employee, leaked classified documents revealing invasive and indiscriminate US surveillance on citizens both foreign and domestic.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Watching you protect and justify unconstitutional laws today leads me to the belief you wouldn't have changed a thing back then, especially if it was under a democrat administration. To say it was legal even though unconstitutional is exactly the problem we have today, the law of the land would deem it illegal, some lousy scum in Washington pass a law saying it is legal doesn't make it so, that is why we have the law of the land the constitution. Sad part is many had to die and get beaten by the government thugs just to get their constitutional rights recognized.
I agree... human rights is an ongoing battle in the US. The RIGHT to Choose, Voting Rights, 14th amendment Americans being threatened with deportation... the fight for our rights is an ongoing process.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
So if I showed you a $1 bill and told you I just found $5,000,000 all in hundreds would you believe me, I doubt it, that is what our government did.
We all can see this issue is about 'agenda'. If Randy Paul had killed BinLaden, under the same circumstances, you'd accept the evidence as SOLID GOLD PROOF! The fact that a Black Democrat accomplished what G Worst Bush could not do, sticks in your throat so that you will denounce it even if Bin Laden's bloody body were sitting on your front porch.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I agree... human rights is an ongoing battle in the US. The RIGHT to Choose, Voting Rights, 14th amendment Americans being threatened with deportation... the fight for our rights is an ongoing process.
Don't forget your right to privacy and due process. I know that isn't as big an issue as gay state sanctioned marriage, but for a few it is.
We all can see this issue is about 'agenda'. If Randy Paul had killed BinLaden, under the same circumstances, you'd accept the evidence as SOLID GOLD PROOF! The fact that a Black Democrat accomplished what G Worst Bush could not do, sticks in your throat so that you will denounce it even if Bin Laden's bloody body were sitting on your front porch.
Nope I would demand the same proof under a president Paul just like I'm doing with Obama, you trying to throw the race card into this laughable and expected. Do you buy the reasons they didn't show the pictures, do you really believe AlQaeda would need another reason to attack us? Do you believe Americans aren't adult enough to see a graphic picture? answer those questions.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Nope I would demand the same proof under a president Paul just like I'm doing with Obama, you trying to throw the race card into this laughable and expected. Do you buy the reasons they didn't show the pictures, do you really believe AlQaeda would need another reason to attack us? Do you believe Americans aren't adult enough to see a graphic picture? answer those questions.
Your post leads me to believe that I'm right about you... this is agenda driven, not fact driven.
Of course Al Qaeda needs no excuse to attack us... (your bogus point), but Al Qaeda DOES need support from the region to survive. The more inflamed the populace of Muslim countries, the more support for Terrorists... and you know it. Saudi Arabia walks a fine line between supporting terror and supporting US interests. Pics of Bin Laden's dead bloody body would make it more difficult for any Muslim country to support the US.
Much like the pics of G Worst Bush's Abu Ghraib prisoners, pics of Bin Laden's dead body would only hurt US interests.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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