Senator Dares to Ask if NSA Spies on Congress

When it comes to defiance of the NSA Stasi the U.S. Congress is not the place where one would expect to find either an abundance of principled representation nor much of a supply of backbones. While there have been a few outliers who have demanded that Obama’s surveillance machine be brought under control those such as Representative Justin Amash, USA Patriot Act creator Representative James Sensenbrenner and Senator Patrick Leahy for instance they are a minority who will ultimately be crushed by the machine as it goes back on offense.  The U.S. Congress is the largest collection of corrupt miscreants, quislings, perverts, charlatans, opportunists, hucksters, half-wits, knuckle-draggers, warmongers, gangsters, on the take defacto corporate lobbyists, chiselers, con artists and assorted swine on the face of God’s green Earth. The defenders of the criminals in high places using the surveillance machine for blackmail, industrial espionage, money laundering and even more nasty bits of business are coming together in defense of their own asses and a career of suckling at the public teat while never having to worry about getting a real job. So it is quite something when an actual question of validity is asked for NSA officials on their disembowelment of civil liberties and privacy rights.  Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders just did this when he in a letter asked whether the NSA has been spying on Congress as a part of their “collect it all” drive for global eradication of privacy and the coming roundup of dissenters.

The simple answer, although you couldn’t beat it out of the scum running the show at Fort Meade, in Bluffdale Utah,San Antonio and D.C.  is yes of course they are -at least on an unknown number of certain members not named Mike Rogers or Dianne Feinstein. However they will continue to fib, obfuscate, dodge, prevaricate, engage in selective recall techniques and trot out armies of legal eagles to bury the truth under a pile of weasel words all while they are fully enabled by the heads of the Intelligence Committees of both houses whose only purpose for their lofty positions is to prevent the billion dollar surveillance business and all of its accompanying revenue streams from ever being made to answer truthfully. It is pretty damned shameless when two days after a terrorist appeasing degenerate like Peter King (R-IRA) denounces the New York Times as terrorist appeasers for daring to suggest that former government contractor turned heroic whistleblower Edward Snowden be given clemency for exposing the blatant criminal actions of those in high places that the legal counsel to the perjurer James Clapper at ODNI comes out and has the stones to deny that the bastard lied in the first place.  The culprit is one Robert Litt, the general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (the Clapper) who has sent a written rebuttal to the New York Times (which should immediately be fed into the nearest shredder) offering up an excuse for the perjury. Now there is some chutzpah!

The knives for Sanders are already being sharpened for tomorrow morning's Sunday edition of the two-minute hate, you see Bernie Sanders is a - GASP -socialist and not only is he one but he is open about it. Rather than have any sort of a serious discussion about surveillance of elected officials there will be no answering of this very important question because Senator Sanders will be buried under an avalanche of horseshit as the state-corporate media will see to it that he is crucified upon a hammer and sickle. That much is as certain as the sun coming up in the morning and given the dismal quality of lunatics in charge of the government probably even more so. Senator Sander’s socialism only allows for the state-corporate media smear machine to more easily dismiss him as a crank, much as they did to Ron Paul and currently Senator Rand Paul, another NSA and PNAC global dominance critic. Best to not assist the payroll propagandists with cutting our own throats, the strategy of divide and conquer is as old as it is effective.

While Senator Sanders' socialism probably doesn’t sit well with a good many libertarians, paleoconservatives and those of differing philosophies when it comes to economic systems it should be clearly understood by all that in the current, corrupt authoritarian system that the government blade swings both left and right. Put into layman's terms it makes no difference to the corrupt operatives of the authoritarian state whose heads will be lopped off first because if you oppose it you are already in the database and your punishment has been preordained.

It is wise to recall the words of Pastor Martin Niemöller who was present in Germany in the 1930's during the rise of another authoritarian regime with a passion for surveillance:

When the Nazis came for the communists,

I remained silent;

I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,

I remained silent;

I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,

I did not speak out;

I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,

I remained silent;

I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,

there was no one left to speak out.

It is truly imperative for all Americans who are cognizant of the danger of the immense power imbued in the rogue government to put aside philosophical differences and unite against Leviathan. I have long been an advocate for a progressive-libertarian alliance against fascism and this also includes socialists, most of whom have an intense desire to eliminate the ability of the government to destroy the lives of its citizens through constitutional revisionism, secret courts, paramilitary police and most of all a vast and monstrous surveillance machine that grows increasingly powerful by the day. The most important duty of all for patriotic Americans today - one which will ultimately affect the lives of future generations yet unborn - is to stamp out fascism and that starts with bringing the surveillance colossus down and restrained by the Constitution.

Serial Perjurer Clapper Plays the Fear Card

The establishment is beginning to grow restive over the failure of our political buffoons and narcissists to rescind the partial government shutdown and increase the debt ceiling. While it is still a dead bang certainty that a last minute agreement will materialize, primarily to save the reckless bets of the Wall Street gambling casinos other elements of the overstuffed fascist police state are playing the fear card to ensure that none of their money sucking programs suffer cuts. On the same day that it was revealed that Obama’s NSA Stasi is using their lawless impunity to vacuum up the email address books of millions of law abiding Americans a story ran in McClatchy blaming Barry for “putting the country at risk” for not cutting the inevitable deal with House Republican insurrectionists. The story in question, a fine puff pastry piece of state propaganda entitled Shutdown Misstep: How Obama Plan Put the Country at Risk, written by some payroll weasel who goes by the name of  Anita Kumar bestows state media legitimacy upon Obama’s Director of National Intelligence and serial perjurer James Clapper as well as other high level U.S. Stasi swine.

The Kumar piece spent a good amount of time bemoaning that the partial shutdown put thousands of government teat sucking bureaucrats and the operatives of the most invasive and oppressive spying system in human history out on furlough. For good measure it interjected the warmed over Bush-Cheney rhetoric (since adapted by Barry) was putting the country at risk. The piece as well as serving as a mini-hagiography of Clapper goes on to cite a good number of 'experts' who obviously have much riding on their well paid gigs within the disinformation sphere that protects the NSA and other intelligence agencies from too much scrutiny here in Der Homeland. No mention whatsoever was given to the story in The Guardian (where else?) that featured the very creator of the USAPATRIOT Act, Congressman James Sensenbrenner denouncing the monster that he created and leading efforts to drive a stake through it's rotten black heart. Sensenbrenner also appropriately tabbed Clapper as the professional fibber that he is and called for his prosecution. But in going with the way that we honor our criminals here in the rotting republic of greed and wanton stupidity the perjuring bastard is treated as some sort of hero. Especially when he is trotted out to scare the bejesus out of the lemmings to preserve the funding for his precious authoritarian voyeur programs. 

These bastards have no shame whatsoever, these out of control fascist agencies need to be broken into millions of pieces and scattered to the winds not given free reign to enslave American taxpayers using their own tax money. Citing “The Clapper’s” testimony at a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing the man who would in a decent society currently be cooling his heels in the iron bar hotel  dissembled that “each day that goes by, the jeopardy increases”.  The sheer disingenuous nature of the piece is made even more obvious when that insipid, corrupt blathering sow Diane Feinstein is quoted as well “our country is at heightened risk of terrorist attack” slobbered Di Fi, stressing out over the very thought of her hubby’s portfolio taking a ding without the endless flow of taxpayer money sluicing into the defense-surveillance industrial complex that they both profit immensely from.  Rather than dig much more into the article, which isn’t suitable for bird cage liner the remaining days until that financial doomsday clock strikes 00:00 will be filled with much of the same idiotic nonsense from those who have the most at stake money wise in the metastasizing of the U.S. security colossus.

The coming days will see more fear-mongering and nonsense by the high criminals who have burrowed deeply into our most corrupt of governments and have like the junkie gamblers on Wall Street have become as addicted to their ill gotten gains.  It is the continuing hope of this writer that the tea party insurgents, who I have absolutely nothing else in common with are successful in dealing a blow to this monstrous system by allowing all of the schemes to implode by allowing the debt ceiling to not be raised again. The only way that Clapper, Feinstein and their trough feeding cohorts will stop sucking off of the unsustainable system will be if the credit limit is restricted and they can go and make a decent living as anything other than the fascist parasites that they are.