The Obama administration, still dissembling about the true magnitude of big government’s domestic surveillance and data-mining programs has chosen to just whitewash it all. In a move that should surprise nobody who has been watching the shifty bastard, El Presidente is about to pack his promised NSA review board with cronies and insiders. While Obama couldn’t quite get away with letting the perjuring pimpernel James Clapper head his dog and pony show he is going to go one better. It has been reported that none other than longtime crony from back in the pre-Harvard Chicago days Cass Sunstein, a dangerous fascist ideologue will have a prime seat on Barry’s crackerjack team of ‘outsiders’ tasked with what promises to be an outrageously bogus fraud. It is like having the proverbial pack of wolves put in charge of guarding the hen house. Sunstein is the author of the manifesto on Conspiracy Theories that touted the infiltration of those groups that questioned shady government conduct – COINTELPRO anyone?
Joining Sunstein will be such prominent establishment hacks as former Clinton-Bush bureaucrat Richard Clarke, he of the “hair on fire” fame who brought down the house during the 9/11 Kean Commission hearings by proclaiming to Americans that “your government failed you”. Clarke managed to parlay his star making turn into a minor celebrity status as one of those ‘experts’ who is always in front of the cameras and appears on such gauche television shows as HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, the smarmy, religion bashing anti-Muslim bigot that liberals adore. Clarke should be an accomplished expert in government failure, I guess that is his ante money to get into this game. In addition to Sunstein and Clarke the Obama dream team will be filled out by former CIA placeholder Michael Morell and Peter Swire a White House insider who is being touted by the Washington Post as “a measured but critical voice of post 9/11 information-gathering practices”. With a recommendation like that from the beltway’s preeminent megaphone the finely tuned horseshit detectors of those who actually care about any of this stuff in an existential sense are screeching. Hell, this is as legitimate as when virulent Kennedy hater Allen Dulles was placed on the Warren Commission.
I suppose that it could be worse, after all Obama did not appoint former DHS honcho Michael Certoff now of The Chertoff Group who used his insider influence to parlay the failed Christmas Day “underwear bomber” plot into big time mega bucks. Chertoff’s firm at the time was representing a security industrial complex company by the name of Rapiscan which was able to use the ridiculous and highly suspect ‘terrorist’ plan to sell hundreds of those wonderful naked full-body scanners to the TSA. However Rapiscan was recently dumped by the TSA and government but not until after Chertoff made his millions. Obama I suppose also deserves some ‘credit’ for not including authoritarian nutjob Michael Hayden to his NSA investigative crew. Former NSA top dog Hayden has been spending a lot of time in carrying water for Obama’s Stasi as of late and made the following ridiculous statement that shows that the phony war on terror has always been about a war on all of us:
“If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do?” said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran the NSA and then the CIA, referring to “nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years”.“They may want to come after the US government, but frankly, you know, the dot-mil stuff is about the hardest target in the United States,” Hayden said, using a shorthand for US military networks. “So if they can’t create great harm to dot-mil, who are they going after? Who for them are the World Trade Centers? The World Trade Centers, as they were for al-Qaida.”
Complete and utter nonsense and yet it gets credibility and airtime which is indicative of a lying and on the dole state media. As I believe I previously mentioned Hayden reminds me of the nerdy, nondescript neighbor who one day is found to have the remains of dozens of missing children buried in his backyard Incidentally Hayden is a member of guess who? – The Chertoff Group. There is one hell of a lot of coin to be made in keeping the American sheeple terrified, distracted and obedient while their own tax money is extracted to enslave them. Nice work if you can get it. So it’s just another day in the United States of Scared Shitless and the corporate-state media is fixated on poor doomed Bradley Manning’s gender issues. Chelsea Manning is as popular as Lady Gaga on the electronic crackpipe, too bad that none of the vile networks, papers, websites nor their paid shills gave a rat’s ass when “Chelsea” was tortured and dragged before a Stalinist style show trial for blowing the whistle on war crimes.
And today The Guardian has also just broken yet another new story on NSA rottenness in that the U.S government was using your money to subsidize tech corporations compliance costs. The British government can continue to send their goons into news organizations as though they were the finger men of V For Vendetta’s Norsefire party but it all continues to come out. I personally cannot wait until the day that the shoe drops that all of this surveillance has been being provided to the same big Wall Street racketeers who crashed the economy and then were bailed out by Barry and the Boys.
Perhaps it will finally be the day when we roll out the guillotines.
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