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Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA
FuzzNugget writes "No, you didn't just stumble upon The Onion by mistake. Ars Technica reports that Obama's 'reform' panel will report directly to James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence who arguably lied to Congress about whether the NSA conducted dragnet surveillance of Americans' communications. But is anyone really surprised?"
And most of you voted for him. I hope you are proud of yourselves.
It's up to us to contact our representatives and let them know that they can't just sweep this under the rug like usual. There has to be consequences.
"Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
Either he did or he didn't, there's no in-between. In actuality he lied, and did it intentionally.
Technically, I don't think one can lie unintentionally.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Campaign finance reform would go along way to changing the system.
Representative democracy is subverted from the very beginning and its so easy to subvert. Most of the voting population make their voting decisions in the same way they make purchasing decisions. By the way, the majority of people don't evaluate the relative benefits etc of the various products they get to choose from. They make their decisions based on advertising. Advertising works, its worth big money, theres no argument there.. It works for products and services and it 'works' for democracy too.
The people who control the advertising control the democracy and so democracy almost automatically transforms into mediacracy.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
This is a panel to determine if the US "employs its technical collection capabilities in a manner that optimally protects our national security and advances our foreign policy while appropriately accounting for other policy considerations, such as the risk of unauthorized disclosure and our need to maintain the public trust."
This isn't supposed to be oversignt. It's entirely for the NSA's benefit.
Read Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States. It's always been thus. It's never been a democracy. It's only been a republic.
No it won't. It will do nothing. The voter has to learn to resist propaganda, and think critically. Check the records, not the campaign speeches. Campaign 'reform' is a bullshit shell game, just like term limits. They will find another way to launder the money.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Is that they live in a world so far removed from our own - in which civil rights, due process and conflicts of interest are active concerns - to such an extent that doing something like this "ain't no thang". Disturbing.
Frankly, they could have at least pretended to give a shit.
Except even that doesn't fully capture what is going on here. More like putting KFC in charge of the henhouse?
Yeah, but he decided not to investigate himself, so it's cool, right?
It's much more important to prosecute for lying about taking steroids to play baseball than it is to prosecute for lying about fucking your country.
...the Director of National Intelligence who arguably lied to congress about whether the NSA conducted dragnet surveillance of Americans' communications.
Damn /. editors, you misspelled "arguably". The proper spelling is D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.): "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
James Clapper: "No, sir"
Wyden: "It does not?"
Clapper: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertantly perhaps collect, but not wittingly."
That is not the truth, but not the whole truth. That is a flat-out lie, told under oath before a Senatorial committee.
You can cower and boot-lick your way through life if you want. Me, I want to live free.
Hence the Anonymous Cowardice.
I'm tired of this 'arguably' and 'allegedly' garbage. James Clapper has already apologized for lying to Congress. HE LIED TO CONGRESS AND HE ADMITTED IT. There is no more 'arguable' or 'allegedly' any more. It is misinformation to keep taking black and white concrete facts and use gray words in their place. It's like there's a hidden agenda somewhere to try to keep people confused on the simplest of facts.
Therefore, Obama appointed the man in charge of the NSA, who already lied to Congress, to investigate possible reforms for the NSA. But then again, Obama also lied about the extent of the NSA's surveillance. The day after Snowden's original revelations, Obama stated that they only collect 'meta' data - but not actual phone calls. Then, recently, he states that they make copies of everything but do not look at it. Therefore, Obama's original statement was a lie.
But that's how our country works.. Obama can lie directly to our faces. James Clapper can lie directly to Congress. And the media will say 'they may have lied.'
--- We need more Ron Paul!
Hmmm, I wonder is Clapper will do the same?
Actually, no, I don't wonder, I know he will.
With this administration its always
1). We're shocked this happened, we will investigate!
2). Assign investigation to the person/group accused of wrongdoing.
3). Profit????? Well at least pay no price......
Still think that AC is actually anonymous to those we're talking about here?
It's "gutting" companies that are already failing. He extended the life of most of the companies further than would have been possible without his company's intervention.