This week's Sunday morning demagoguery featured rising star Mike Rogers, House Intelligence Committee Chairman and the new face of American fascism. The foremost defender of unconstitutional NSA spying programs was featured on CNN’s State of the Union on the weekly bloviation circuit where is is rapidly establishing himself as a regular. Rogers took batting practice from Candy Crowley where he was lobbed softballs that will become the establishment talking points this coming week. He was joined by the reprehensible reprobate Dianne Feinstein, the impenetrable firewall of cellulite that is standing between the run amok NSA and any potential oversight.
The round-faced former FBI man’s recitation of the fascist talking points that “terrorist” groups were “changing behavior” due to ongoing revelations of NSA transgressions is just more of the same standard horse crap and fear mongering. Rogers was on a roll as he delivered the following from the transcript with the conflict of interest ridden DiFi chiming in. I excerpt the following and add comments in brackets:
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CROWLEY: The big question that's always asked, are we safer now than we were a year ago, two years ago? In general?
FEINSTEIN: I don't think so. I think terror is up worldwide, the statistics indicate that, the fatalities are way up. The numbers are way up. There are new bombs, very big bombs, trucks being reinforced for those bombs. There are bombs that go through magnatometers. The bomb maker is still alive. There are more groups that ever and there's huge malevolence out there. [brings to mind the ludicrous story of the surgically implanted bombs used to evade TSA naked body scanners that was floated earlier this summer]
CROWLEY: So congressman, I have to say, that is not the answer I expected. I expected to hear, oh, we're safer. Do you agree?
ROGERS: Oh, I absolutely agree that we're not safer today for the same very reasons. [fear is the key to more power for Rogers and his ilk]
So the pressure on our intelligence services to get it right to prevent an attack are enormous. And it's getting more difficult because we see the al Qaeda as we knew it before is metastasizing to something different, more affiliates than we've ever had before, meaning more groups that operated independently of al Qaeda have now joined al Qaeda around the world, all of them have at least some aspiration to commit an act of violence in the United States or against western targets all around the world. [the bogeyman that justifies all of the unconstitutional spying must be preserved at all costs and it has reconfigured since Emanuel Goldstein Osama bin Laden was killed]
They've now switched to this notion that maybe smaller events are okay. So if you have more smaller events than bigger events, they think that might still lead to their objectives and their goals. That makes it exponentially harder for our intelligence services to stop an event like that. [smaller justifies spying on EVERYBODY]
CROWLEY: Because essentially one person can do a small event. [NSA couldn't stop Boston Marathon bombers]
ROGERS: Absolutely.
CROWLEY: So, one of the things that the senator said was that there is more hatred out there, more -- and why is that? [I am sure it has nothing to do with drone strikes, murdering civilians and occupying Middle East countries]
FEINSTEIN: I think there is a real displaced aggression in this very fundamentalist, jihadist, Islamic community. And that is that the west is responsible for everything that goes wrong, and that the only thing that's going to solve this is Islamic Sharia law and the concept of the caliphate [This is pure bloody red meat for the rubes who eat up the Muslim bashing as though it were a cherished treat]. And I see more groups, more fundamentalists, more jihadists more determined to kill to get to where they want to get. So, it's not an isolated phenomenon. You see these groups spread a web of connections. And this includes North Africa, it includes the Middle East, it includes other areas as well.
CROWLEY: Lots of times we look at kind of some of these splinter groups going, yeah, but their interest is local.
ROGERS: And here's the -- but here's the concern of that. Now, remember, you have somewhere near 25 states that have some failed level of governance, meaning they can't secure large spaces of their own country. Those are always attractive for safe havens when it comes to any terrorist organization. And we're finding they're taking advantage of that.
So you see what's happening in a place like Syria where you have a pooling of al Qaeda members and affiliates of al Qaeda in a way we've never seen before at the level of numbers that we have never seen before, and here's the scary part of this, some thousands of people showing up to participate in that in their mind jihadist effort are westerners, meaning they have western passports.
A percentage of them have already gone home, including the United States [hey Americans, they are under your beds and hiding in your closets so be very afraid], by the way, is included in that western number. We are very, very concerned that these folks who have western paper have gone there, participated in combat events, are trained, are further radicalized, now have the ability to go back in western countries. [what is the over/under on bogus threats aimed at shopping malls this holiday season? This guy is shameless]
We know that those--
CROWLEY: And to ply that trade.
ROGERS: Well, to ply that trade. And now they have a connection, a direct connection to al Qaeda affiliates operating in a place where most people would say, well, we have no interest in Syria. Well, clearly we do. And clearly, that's just one place. And it's starting to spread.
You saw what happened in Lebanon recently.
CROWLEY: In Lebanon, that's right.
ROGERS: Where they blew up the Iranian embassy. [or was it Mossad?]
This is all starting to spread. Iraq is having its problems now. It's spreading into Lebanon, Jordan has issues, Turkey along the border has issues. This is very, very, very concerning. [a continued military presence in the region is imperative because it makes big money for DiFi's defense contractor hubby as well as justifies the trillions of dollars that go into NSA surveillance and it's civilian offshoots - two key words "campaign contributions]
FEINSTEIN: There is now a bomb that can go through magnatometers. People can get on aircraft with those bombs. They have tried to send four into this country, two in printer cartridges, one by Abdulmutalleb, and one, asset, was able to obtain out of Yemen. [groan]
These were coming into this country, two of them aimed at synagogues in Illinois. Now, having said that, the only way to stop this was with intelligence. The only way you could stop that is putting clues together to ferret out where this was coming from. [this fat slob has no qualms whatsoever at blatantly encouraging hate crimes against law abiding American Muslim citizens]
CROWLEY: So where is our weakest point? [Might I suggest the U.S. Congress]
ROGERS: Well, I mean, I think -- the threat level has never been more diverse than it is today. And that's one of the bigger, I think, concerns that we have. And I think why both -- we both would agree that the threat is higher today and we are probably less safe is the more efforts they try, the more perfect you have to be in order to stop something. And that's a huge challenge.
CROWLEY: And lucky.
ROGERS: And lucky.
And so, you think about what's happened with recent disclosures. We have now three al Qaeda affiliate groups have changed the way they communicate means it's less likely that we're going to be able to detect something prior to an event that goes operational, meaning that they've already started the final planning stages to blow something up or shoot someone. [do those "changing the way they communicate" also include U.S. citizens who don't want their entire lives spied on by a fascist NSA? Or American tech companies who are changing their ways thanks to the threats against their business models courtesy of the surveillance?]
And so we're fighting amongst ourselves here in this country about the role of our intelligence community that is having an impact on our ability to stop what is a growing number of threats. [it's called following the Constitution]
And so we've got to shake ourselves out of this pretty soon and understand that our intelligence services are not the bad guys. The bad guys, the al Qaeda affiliates, Russian intelligence services, Chinese intelligence services, the Quds force that operates terrorism events all around the world, those are the folks we need to focus our attention and our energy on in order to keep America safe.
CROWLEY: So it seems to me what both of you are saying you haven't liked this focus on the NSA and the complaints about the NSA in terms of the breadth of what they're collecting. [low speed softball over home plate]
ROGERS: Well, I would argue it allows them to focus on the problem. We spend a lot of time now internally focused, their up -- I can't tell you the thousands of man hours they have spent trying to prepare people to understand fact from fiction, what is happening versus what is not happening.
And we both -- both of our committees take great pride in our real oversight function of which we participate in to make sure they're not violating the law. [whopper of the week]
Well, we've had to recreate all of that work over and over and over again every time there's a disclosure. And our fear is, every time we do that, we take them away from their focus, which is what is al Qaeda's next event? Who is moving somewhere in the world is trying to get into the United States or an allied country to kill somebody. And that part seems to have gotten lost in the fact that we have new threats. I think people think what the senator was talking about, Dianne was talking about, was people think, well, we've got this thing beat, it's kind of over. We don't have to worry about al Qaeda anymore. And what we see is that's not the case.
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These people just do not get it as they and the state continue to blame the messenger for their own enabling of an out of control surveillance state as well as their blatant violations of their oaths of office. It is the fault of former government contractor Booz-Allen employee Edward Snowden for blowing the whistle as well as those who have written about it and the few decent members of the filthy corrupt Congress that are trying to bring it under control.
Hell any serious “terrorist” groups would be savvy enough to understand that everything is being watched and to avoid the internet altogether. No this is about the J. Edgar Hoover style vacuuming up of the sexual and otherwise browsing habits for blackmail purposes. There is no coincidence that the pig that is the former FBI fascist Rogers coming out the very weekend when it was revealed that the NSA is also monitoring the porn sites and looking to use the private sexual preferences of those who have committed no crime other than being rabble rousers against the abuses. Being that the adult entertainment industry is enormous there is no shortage of blackmail material being piped into that massive NSA facility in Utah.
Rogers and Feinstein both belong in jail and Crowley is about the poorest excuse for a 'journalist' operating today which is quite a statement.
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