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Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email
mspohr writes with this excerpt from Democracy Now!: "National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney reveals he believes domestic surveillance has become more expansive under President Obama than President George W. Bush. He estimates the NSA has assembled 20 trillion 'transactions' — phone calls, emails and other forms of data — from Americans. This likely includes copies of almost all of the emails sent and received from most people living in the United States. Binney talks about Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and challenges NSA Director Keith Alexander's assertion that the NSA is not intercepting information about U.S. citizens." The parts about National Security Letters in particular are chilling, even though the issue is not new.
What's wrong with you, huh? Why do you hate FREEDUMB?? Binney is obviously giving away National Security secrets to the terr'rists, and should be Gitmo'd right away. Didn't he read the name of the Act? It's the USA PATRIOT Act. If he hates the US America so much, maybe he should move back to Sharia Kenya, or wherever all these freedom-haters come from.
Poe's Law is a fickle mistress =/
Bush went to war against Iraq
You're referring, of course, to Bush senior, who did so along with a large group of other nations because of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and posturing along the Saudi border. He (Bush senior) committed to a an eventual regime change there, based on Saddam's failure to ever live up to the agreements he made to cease the destruction of what was left of his military as he withdrew from that invasion. The Clinton administration continued pressure on him over weapons inspections (such as the large VX gas stashes the UN observed, his long range missile building and importing from North Korea, etc), and continued the presence of the military in the region because Saddam never stopped shooting at the allied aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones over the ares where he (Saddam) had been doing things like slaughtering thousands of villagers.
The second Bush echoed Clinton's stated policy of getting rid of Saddam, and finally acted on that post-9/11 after Saddam not only continued to stonewall the UN, but syphoned off food money to rebuild his military, continued to attack no-fly patrols, made public (televised) payments to terror operations and the families of suicide bombers in the region, and demonstrated that his continued provocations, long-range missle programs, and hide-and-seek with his VX stockpile wasn't going to get better - only worse. With groups like AQ starting to filter down from their suddenly less hospitable hangout in Afghanistan and into places that included Iraq, and with a jillion un-addressed UN calls for him to stop blocking his promised weapons inspections, the second Bush wrapped up what two presidents before him (and many other nations) had been doing all along: defanging the Baathist regime in Iraq, and getting rid of Saddam and his odious, mass-murdering, criminal family and their cronies.
That war was started by Saddam, and finished with his ouster. The fight with the insurgents started winding down under Bush, not Obama, and it was Bush's wrap-up schedule for major operations there that Obama stuck to and finished, since it was now on his watch.
Obama got us out.
We are not out of Iraq. If you think so, you're wrong. If you know so, then you're lying. There are thousands and thousands of our people there, armed to the teeth, in harm's way, and providing support for the slowly-growing Iraqi infrastructure's ability to deal with insurgents on their own. We are still right next door in Kuwait, in huge numbers, to provide exactly the same support we have been - only, now it's more difficult because we have to do some operations at longer range.
Of course, you know all of this, because it's right there in front of you.
Can you see the wee-bit of difference there?
Your are either woefully uninformed, or deliberately misrepresenting the situation.
I can and I'm voting for Obama.
You are either too uninformed to safely vote, or you're too comfortable deliberately lying about the situation in order to show support for someone for other reasons that you're not stating. Either way, please do not vote. Neither ignorance nor purposeful disingenuousness in the service of an unspoken agenda have a place there. But if you are going to continue to attempt to mislead people, thank you for doing it on a topic that's such a plain case of public record, because doing so makes it so much easier to disregard your advice.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Bin Laden died in late 2001:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html
Bin Laden "killed" by Seal Team 6:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/02/bin-laden-killed-cia-led-seals-team-death-hailed-blow-al-qaeda/
Seal team members killed to cover the lie:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/
The American public is SO owned...