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Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media
JCWDenton writes "Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA's warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists."
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This guy is a former colleague, and let's just say none of us that know him personally are surprised that he went all the way to the media to satisfy a grudge. The funniest part is that he never even had access on the level implied in this "story".
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
Fascinating. Two (relatively) low numbers debating a point. I don't know how truthful this guy is, but the two of you have given me useful filters to examine the accusations. Biases exist everywhere, so there's a grain of salt with which I read things, but I have to agree that learning happens, regardless.
I'm Peggy.
LOL great source there, worldnutdaily
No, McCarthy is not a hero. He was a traitor. WorldNetDaily is the worst kind of Coulter-loving, Rush-smooching right wing wank-fest this side of freep. Don't trust anything you see on that site. The article you link to simply quotes another right wing crackpot organization, 'Accuracy in Academia,' a group dedicated to vilifying left wing teachers. Suck it, Prune. You conservative idiots had your chance, and you screwed it up so badly you nearly brought down the whole country. Just sit back and massage your ass until it stops hurting, the grown-ups are back in charge again.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
McCarthy paid dearly for his patriotism and this sacrifice is what makes him a hero. Read Herman's book.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
Before you mod me down, I hope you'll consider the references cited in the link I posted. Or maybe that's too much to ask on Slashdot
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
Stalker much?
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
By the way, calling me Muslim is the biggest insult I have received all my life. My views on Islam and the soft jihad they are waging on Europe and now Canada are aligned with those of the great Ezra Levant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Levant#Human_Rights_complaint http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3SdV2cwn4&feature=channel_page
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
What I posted does not imply I worked at the NSA. Think about it
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
Yes, it's clearly proof of whatever whacked out conspiracy theory Rush Limbaugh shat into your earhole yesterday.
You must be a shill for the ex-Bushtard administration.
LOL @ "screening". Many sociopaths are quite adept at keeping the burner low--at least until some point. A screening is not an all-revealing X-ray; it merely removes the worst outliers.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
A move that will surely lead directly to the death of Americans, we should applaud him for sure. It's great that the democratic policies for dumbing of America has worked so well.
What you say about the site may be true, but I'm more interested in the references cited in the article, especially Herman's scholarly book.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
"The ends don't justify the means" is a meaningless cliche, a semantic game, since you can redefine what are ends and what are means to suit your argument. For example, one view is that all means, specifically their side-effects, are part of the ends, and the correct way to weigh this is to tally up everything.
As much as a utilitarian approach to issues involving morals and other subjectivity seems insensitive, in a cost-benefit analysis McCarthy was a net benefit, as demonstrated by the references cited in the article.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
That post was half-serious, though for a different reason than you may think. Insults are a matter of perception. On the one hand, this means that it may be something extremely offensive to my views, to be called a Muslim, and this is the serious part. On the other hand, the power of an insult is (or at least should be) a function of the respect one holds for the one from which the insult stems, and this is why I'm not really that insulted.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
I'd say that's to an populist start that avoids many awkward questions; it's fixing a symptom, not the disease.
Of course, I'd be delighted to be proven wrong; maybe he is Hercules re-routing the Alpheus through the Augean stable of US politics. But like the fable, the old cattle will still be there afterwards, filling the place with BS again...
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Of course every political ideology has good and bad points, but that does not mean they are all on the same level; I'm sure you know this and I think you are trying to claim the opposite for show. The fact that he based his reputation on this shows he took great risk and sacrifice to stand up for what he believed (and later turned out mostly correct) is right.
I agree that being anti-American is not a crime, nor am I suggesting it should be. At the same time, I believe there should be social consequences for undermining the US in the way I see communist sympathizers doing (and I'm not American, by the way).
I think that, regardless of the connection between socialism and communism, you cannot put them on the same level so no, I would not call you anti-American merely for what you have written about yourself.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
B fails--I know because he himself told me. A fails--do you think he's held a single job in his lifetime?
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
Of all the biases exhibited here at Slashdot---and there are many!---the bias favoring low-id users is probably the most idiotic.
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Of all the biases exhibited here at Slashdot---and there are many!---the bias favoring low-id users is probably the most idiotic.
If this is true, it's too big a secret to have stayed 100% unknown. Some / many of your journalists must have known about it and are traitors to your nation. Those are not the people you want to trust to protect you. Possibly he's the first person willing to publish when others were willing to hide the truth. If so, you should punish them together with the spies.
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Not really a flip, but more of hypocrisy, on how he is a part of the environmentalist global warming crowd, then his inauguration sets a record for private jet use, as well as the largest temporary bathroom event ever.
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." Hayek
You appear to be conflating conservative with Republican, but the two are not interchangeable, particularly with respect to the administration that just left office.
And you appear to be conflating republican with Republican, but the two are not interchangeable, particularly with respect to the administration that just left office.
BBH
if his name is Rowland, will you pay for his therapist?
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
Why go to a non-partisan source? They aren't any less trustworthy than a biased source. In fact, I'd take this story to the most extreme liberal, since they're going to be the ones to attack at the story's discovery the hardest.
it just demonstrates that Olberman and the like aren't actually partisan, they are both correct and relatively neutral
My goodness sir you should write for the onion. Wait, you were actually serious? Keith, I never said Hillary should drop out(except when I implied someone should do violence to her to coerce her to end her campaign) Olbermann? That Keith Olbermann who spent months railing against Bill O'reilly's belief that he(Bill) was the center of the universe, then made someone who accidently took his luggage and didn't return it in person "Worst Person in the World". Correct and relatively neutral. Have you seen any of the Keith's "Special Comments"? If those are your definition of correct and relatively neutral, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
Just a couple days ago I had a pissing match with a right wing idiot who thought that my *sig* was good justification for a troll mod. Nevermind that the content was not political, and was informative.
So yes, O'Reilly might have gotten some troll mods too. Big fucking deal.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
If you had lived under a communist regime as I have, you'd not write such nonsense.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
"I think it is often the more patriotic act to defy your government, than to obey it without thinking." Note that there's at least as much truth to saying "I think it is often the more patriotic act to obey your government, than to defy it without thinking." Most people I know that hold libertarian and anarchist views do so more to be hip or are being reactionary, despite fooling themselves to the contrary.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."