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7/7/2013 11:33:00 PM

"Shoe Chucker" <georgewk10@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:georgewk10-7EF590.06552907072013@news.toast.net:

> In article <kYbCt.6809$ny.1269@fx14.iad>,
> "Ray Keller" <Leftards@re.desperate.com> wrote:
>
>> Obama Gives Himself Control of all Communication Systems in America
>> World Truth ^ | July 6, 2013 | Staff
>>
>> Executive Order -- Assignment of National Security and Emergency
>> Preparedness Communications Functions http://www.white......
>>
>> US President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order
>> on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private
>> communications in the country in the name of national security.
>>
>> President Obama released his latest Executive Order on Friday, July 6,
>> a 2,205-word statement offered as the "Assignment of National Security
>> and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions." And although the
>> president chose not to commemorate the signing with much fanfare, the
>> powers he provides to himself and the federal government under the
>> latest order are among the most far-reaching yet of any of his
>> executive decisions.
>>
>> "The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all
>> times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and
>> time sensitive missions," the president begins the order. "Survivable,
>> resilient, enduring and effective communications, both domestic and
>> international, are essential to enable the executive branch to
>> communicate within itself and with: the legislative and judicial
>> branches; State, local, territorial and tribal governments; private
>> sector entities; and the public, allies and other nations."
>>
>> President Obama adds that it is necessary for the government to be able
>> to reach anyone in the country during situations it considers critical,
>> writing, "Such communications must be possible under all circumstances
>> to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies and improve
>> national resilience." Later the president explains that such could be
>> done by establishing a "joint industry-Government center that is
>> capable of assisting in the initiation, coordination, restoration and
>> reconstitution of NS/EP [national security and emergency preparedness]
>> communications services or facilities under all conditions of emerging
>> threats, crisis or emergency."
>>
>> "The views of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit
>> sectors, and the public must inform the development of NS/EP
>> communications policies, programs and capabilities," he adds.
>>
>>
>> (Excerpt) Read more at worldtruth.tv ...
>
> and.
> In article <XnsA1F4E454D95976F089P2473@202.177.16.121>,
> "Leroy N. Soetoro" <leroysoetoro@usurper.org> wrote:
>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/opinion/rothkopf-sur...
>> revelations/index.html
>>
>> (CNN) -- It's hard to think of a time in the history of America's
>> intelligence community when it has been more battered by accusations of
>> over-stepping or mismanaging its mission: to secretly gather
>> information to support the activities of the U.S. government.
>>
>> The list of recent revelations grew over the weekend with allegations
>> that America has been systematically spying on its European allies.
>> Reports in the European press, apparently drawn from documents provided
>> by Edward Snowden, suggested that America spied on the European Union,
>> France, Italy, Greece and other close international friends, listening
>> in on encrypted fax transmissions and planting bugs and other devices
>> at 38 embassies and missions in Washington and New York, as well as
>> locations in Europe.
>>
>> The timing is not great: the eve of scheduled trade talks with the
>> Europeans, a priority of the Obama administration. The new reports have
>> caused a furor across the continent, stoking the uproar caused by
>> earlier Snowden-related revelations that America has been listening in
>> on millions of German calls and e-mails.
>>
>> Top officials, like Secretary of State John Kerry, shrugged it off by
>> saying allies often spy on each other, and others, like former Director
>> of the NSA and CIA Gen. Michael Hayden, noted that some friends spied
>> on us.
>>
>> But the damage was done to important relationships and to the Obama
>> administration's prior claims that it would conduct itself according to
>> a different standard than past U.S. governments.
>>
>> This all comes on the heels of reports that the overreach of the
>> intelligence community begins at home. While it will be cold comfort to
>> our NATO allies that we are only treating them as we do our own people,
>> the details of programs that warehouse massive amounts of phone
>> metadata and e-mail traffic were the first shock waves produced by the
>> Snowden leaks.
>>
>> But the problems go beyond what Snowden leaked to the very fact that a
>> comparatively junior contractor could gain top level clearances and
>> access to so much information. Indeed, it is deeply disturbing that
>> hundreds of thousands of private contractors had Top Secret clearances
>> and that, as we have learned, many may have gone through inadequate
>> screening procedures or been inadequately managed.
>>
>> Earlier news -- about the scope of U.S. drone programs managed by the
>> intelligence community, "kill lists," extra-judicial targeting of
>> perceived threats, the scope of America's cyberwarfare programs against
>> enemies in Iran (Stuxnet), China and elsewhere -- have already called
>> the role of the community into question. Just last week NBC News
>> reported that a senior U.S. military leader very close to President
>> Obama and his national security team, Gen. James Cartwright, was a
>> target of a leak investigation concerning Stuxnet..
>>
>> These are all stories of a culture of secrecy and of arrogance that has
>> simply gone too far. Perhaps each and every one of these missions began
>> with a reasonable national security goal.
>>
>> But because so much of the planning and execution takes place behind
>> closed doors or in situations in which the term "oversight" is
>> laughably applied to wink-and-a-nod rubber stamping of initiatives, it
>> is perhaps more surprising we have seen so few scandals than that we
>> are dealing now with what seems like so many.
>>
>> Consider: According to the U.S. government's own figures, last year the
>> Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court received 1,789 applications for
>> approval of government spying operations and OK'd all but one.
>>
>> Since 2001, according to a report in Salon based on government figures
>> collected by the Federation of American Scientists, more than 15,000
>> applications were approved and only 10 denied. The Supreme Soviet of
>> Cold War Russia was a less effective rubber stamp.
>>
>> The FISA Court is just one of the feeble oversight mechanisms that
>> apparently did not do its job. Congressional and executive branch
>> officials have bought into the post 9/11 paranoia and hopped up threat
>> mentality and come to accept that even the possibility of an attack on
>> the United States warrants disregard for U.S. laws and international
>> agreements. Not to mention the principles of respect for individual
>> liberties and reasonable constraints on government power on which the
>> United States was established.
>>
>> This was well illustrated when NSA Director Keith Alexander argued that
>> the agency's massive surveillance programs were warranted because they
>> allegedly stopped "over 50" terror attacks, with scant reference to the
>> size of the attacks, the real risk posed, whether other means to stop
>> them that didn't involve massive surveillance might exist, or to the
>> possibility that the damage done to civil liberties might be worse than
>> that which might have been produced had the terror plans gone forward.
>>
>> Indeed, senior U.S. officials have told me that, in their view, a
>> primary motivator for accepting all these programs was fear that
>> resisting would hold dire political consequences for them, should an
>> attack occur. In other words, in the modern U.S. intelligence
>> community, CYA has become more important than CIA.
>>
>> There are real threats out there. And, yes, other nations spy on us.
>> Terrorists use new technologies to target American interests and
>> citizens and must be contained. Cyberwarfare poses a growing threat to
>> the United States as well as other nations.
>>
>> All these facts require analysis and countermeasures by the U.S.
>> government. Some require the United States to go on offense. But what
>> the revelations show is a series of errors of overreach and bad
>> judgment, not that all our programs should be eliminated. The problem
>> here is one of scale and of profoundly compromised and twisted values.
>>
>> That problem itself is complicated and exacerbated by America's
>> emergence as the world's first cybersuperpower. As such, we have sought
>> to flex our technological muscles not only in ways that make us safer
>> but that introduce a new form of constant, low-grade, invisible
>> conflict that makes Cold War spy games seem quaint in their
>> narrowness--even if their stakes were much higher.
>>
>> In the past, I've called this Cool War?neither cold nor hot but
>> dangerous nonetheless, not just to our enemies but also to our friends,
>> our interests and our values.
>>
>> Edward Snowden broke the law and if the United States can bring him in,
>> he deserves to be prosecuted.
>>
>> But the ones who should be in their own hot seat are those who created,
>> approved and rationalized into existence the sprawling, seemingly
>> uncontainable global intelligence and cyberwarfare apparatus that is as
>> much of a threat to the kind of country we want to be as any terrorist
>> group.
>>
>> The problem for us, of course, is the only people with the power to
>> restore balance and common sense limitations to these programs are the
>> ones who let them get so out of control in the first place.
>
> and ;
> CNN) -- The conservative Republican Rep. Peter King of New York recently
> uncorked the genie that journalists fear most, by calling for a
> crackdown on anyone who gives air time to Edward Snowden and like-minded
> leakers. To most of my journalist colleagues, this seems to violate the
> most basic tenets of press freedom. But as I discovered from my own bout
> with the U.S. Supreme Court, the First Amendment can be a fickle friend
> for anyone who dares defy the guardians of "official secrecy."
> for the rest of this story;
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Peter King isn't really a Republican. He just plays one on TV.

Well maybe he is, lets get rid of both parties.

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Obama called the SEALs and THEY got bin Laden. When the SEALs called Obama,
THEY GOT DENIED. Fuck Obama