It Just Keeps Getting Creepier at the NSA

With the national crisis of the moment being the rush to enter into yet another illegal war in Syria our most serious problem, at least from a civil liberties standpoint has not received much attention as of late.  The deafening beating of the war drums, the state media propagandizing for an attack and the Putin problem have served to distract from the mounting evidence of just how far out of control that Obama’s NSA Stasi has become. We have recently learned that the NSA has undermined American free enterprise by intentionally destroying the effectiveness of internet encryption codes, you know those allegedly secure payment methods? Well thanks to the rogue surveillance state they are no more. The same big government agency has also been outed for spying on customers of credit card companies and providing the purloined data on law abiding American citizens to a FOREIGN country. Let’s just face it, the NSA and it’s tentacles are the greatest threat to this country since it’s inception, worse than King George’s Brits, the commies, Hitler and yes even al Qaeda. There is no way that even in his juiciest of 72 virgins wet dreams Osama bin Laden could never have even fantasized about doing this much damage the now defunct free and democratic society that we used to enjoy in the United States of America.

The rapacious carnivores in the surveillance/intelligence deep state have eradicated any form of privacy that exists outside of our heads and you can damned sure bet that they are at this very minute secretly working on a way to mind rape the citizenry as well. They have destroyed whatever vestiges of what was left of capitalism that the Wall Street looters were unable to take down with their schemes that waere aided and abetted by their moles in the government. Do you really believe that in the sane world that exists outside the borders of what can adequately now be called the United States of Dancing With the Stars is going to do business with American based tech companies? It is a real tragedy thanks to big government run amok and especially those who have spent countless millions on building the cloud based infrastructure that has been sold as the future of commerce. Think again because the rest of the civilized world actually bothers to read, is not already born half-stupid and given their lack of exposure to the corrupt corporate state media here in Der Homeland are well informed. They will be building their own cloud computing companies and the biggest selling factor of all will be that they will actually be SECURE and not subject to the whims of corrupt authoritarian power freaks who happen to also be bureaucratic drones and military voyeurs. We still do not know exactly what else that all of that data is being used for. There are already reports of probable industrial espionage out of Brazil and you can sure as hell bet the farm that much of this data is being provided to political cronies and their corporate backers to provide that competitive advantage that just can’t be gleaned from actually creating a better product. So much for that global economy, it shows just how badly that our once great American business ethic and all of the brilliant entrepreneurs that it created have given way to a corrupt elitist class that only cares about winning and to which cheating, bribery and subterfuge are the tools of doing business.

It is also pretty much a certainty although yet to officially come out that the NSA and it’s private contractors along with God knows how many other  foreign countries (one of which we already know about) are using this data for more nefarious reasons. Think about blackmail, the best way to ensure that the game stays rigged is to snag those with predispositions to perversion in utterly shameful (and likely illegal) sexual forays. This especially works well with politicians. One could imagine that the programs are being used for silencing those who are deemed to be threats, certain journalists who have perished in strange accidents or mysterious ‘suicides’ come to mind. It is no secret that big banks, lacking even the scruples of a crack whore engage in the laundering of drug money, just imagine how much juice that access to the most monstrous and powerful spy machine in the universe could bring to the bottom line. Again, these are speculative comments at the current time but truly, given what we already know is it going to be any surprise when the other shoe finally does drop?

But wait…

As horrifying that it already is it gets worse. In possibly the most disturbing and bizarre tale of the gross perversions of the NSA Stasi yet it has now been revealed that General Keith Alexander, the head of the surveillance colossus is living in a fantasy world with the Tribbles and Hobbits.  According to a recent story in the Guardian (where else?) by Glenn Greenwald that extensively references other sources and is entitled Inside the mind of NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander we may be more screwed than even the doomsayers are espousing. Because this story about arguably the most powerful man in America is about as batshit as it gets – what was only suspected, that a psychopath was running this entire spying machine is pretty much confirmed.

To excerpt from the material, in this case a reference to a PBS piece which has now mysteriously (or not so) been disappeared down the memory hole:

“When he was running the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command, Alexander brought many of his future allies down to Fort Belvoir for a tour of his base of operations, a facility known as the Information Dominance Center. It had been designed by a Hollywood set designer to mimic the bridge of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek, complete with chrome panels, computer stations, a huge TV monitor on the forward wall, and doors that made a ‘whoosh’ sound when they slid open and closed. Lawmakers and other important officials took turns sitting in a leather ‘captain’s chair’ in the center of the room and watched as Alexander, a lover of science-fiction movies, showed off his data tools on the big screen.

 ”‘Everybody wanted to sit in the chair at least once to pretend he was Jean-Luc Picard,’ says a retired officer in charge of VIP visits.”

Jesus, this guy is not only section eight material but to quote Kevin Costner’s title character in the post-apocalyptic film The Postman – “The General is a fucking lunatic”.  I would wonder just how much money was the average hard working taxpayer shaken down for so that this freak could get his rocks off by building his Captain Kirk command chair? Where the hell is the accountability? With all of the idiotic politial theater between Obama and the House Republicans over shutting the government down in order to defund Obamacare (and it is theater) it is pretty obvious that there is a REAL reason to close it all down and it is in charge of the NSA. I still anxiously await the great Darrell Issa (the John Stossel) of politics to convene hearings on the NSA’s unconstitutional and fascist usurping of the right to privacy. Again to place a bit of emphasis on this we aren’t talking about some dork who frequents Star Trek conventions, names his dogs “Tiberius” and “Khan” and gets his kicks by prancing around while wearing a set of waxen Spock ears but arguably the most powerful man in the country if not the world. This is no laughing matter!

Anyway, according to the Foreign Policy Magazine piece,The Cowboy of the NSA that is referenced in the Greenwald story Alexander is indeed quite the “cowboy” who plays fast and loose with the law. This a real understatement about our self-appointed guardian of the galaxy given the torrent of stories that have emerged over the last several months chronicling his agency’s flouting of the laws.  But here is where it really gets twisted – Federation Commandant Keith Alexander may not even be the worst of the NSA Stasi capos. According to a Washington Post story,  during a speech the uber-creepy General Michael Hayden, the personification of what Hannah Arendt once referred to the “banality of evil”not only defended the Constitution shredding NSA programs but took a foray into the same bizarre territory that Alexander exists in when lounging in his command chair. Among other delusional dispensations of his perfect fascist utopia Hayden proclaimed that there are terrorists on Gmail (and under the bed, behind the curtains etc..) which means that by now if you have managed to read this far you are now within my own personal NSA 3 hop query network. Congratulations.

Excerpts from  the piece which reveals the very troubling contents of a very troubled mind – a necessity for holding any sort of leadership position in Obama’s NSA Stasi:

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Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden stood on the pulpit of a church across from the White House on Sunday and declared Gmail the preferred online service of terrorists. As part of an adult education forum at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Hayden gave a wide ranging speech on “the tension between security and liberty.”

 During the speech, he specifically defended Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA), which provides the legal basis for the PRISM program. In doing so, Hayden claimed “Gmail is the preferred Internet service provider of terrorists worldwide,” presumably meaning online service rather than the actual provider of Internet service. He added: “I don’t think you’re going to see that in a Google commercial, but it’s free, it’s ubiquitous, so of course it is.”

Asked whether the United States’s promiscuous surveillance was setting a harmful example for other nations, Hayden suggested that the Internet’s origins in the United States partially justifies the NSA’s conduct. If the Web lasts another 500 years, he said, it may be the thing the United States is remembered for “the way the Romans are remembered for their roads.”

“We built it here, and it was quintessentially American,” he said, adding that partially due to that, much of traffic goes through American servers where the government “takes a picture of it for intelligence purposes.”

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Rest assured that we WILL be remembered by history and the analogy of Rome is a bit more fitting than the dirty little fiend Hayden may otherwise have intended.  Not that the planet will last for anywhere near 500 more years given the bent for destruction of the elites but if it manages to beat the odds historians will marvel over how the greatest empire since Rome rotted from within abetted by the same forms of moral decay, bloodlust, greed and perversion as well as bread and circuses that destroyed that which was at one time indestructable. Like Rome the proverbial Senate baths are filled with naked little boys greased up with olive oil, our ‘leaders’ drunkenly frolic unimpeded by shame while our imperial overlords have the starship coordinates set for the center of Hoth the ice planet with the controls at ramming speed.

Goebbels Shrugged

"I give them credit, I think the government is doing exactly the right thing here."

- Peter King, Rep (IRA)

It was like going back to the future. Beset by mounting pressure over the gross intrusions on the lives of others by Obama’s out of control NSA Stasi the reputedly on the run and defeated bogeyman  Al Qaeda was conjured up anew. It was so 2004. You could have pretty much seen this one coming as the Snowden leaks over unconstitutional spying on law-abiding American citizens began to take their toll. A nice little precursor of black propaganda was thrown out two weeks ago when hundreds of militants including but of course “senior members” of Al Qaeda engineered a jailbreak from Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Remember the place? It was Saddam’s preeminent torture facility until it was hijacked by U.S. invaders and used for even more torture. This was the place where that little peckerwood tramp Lynddie England and her sadistic boyfriend Charles Graner were caught filming their disgusting and demeaning abuse of Iraqis back when Bush’s Iraq war was in full swing. To say that the joint had a bad reputation is quite an understatement.

So with the marauding and not that long ago according to El Presidente himself “on the run” and “defeated” Manichean Devil of the modern era now regenerated just in time to provide cover for the NSA the frenzied alert of imminent danger was issued. By Friday the state-corporate media was aflame with fear and dread, a barrage of bullshit laid down in a shock and awe manner not seen for years. Following up the hysterics the lackeys, water carriers and unprincipled mouthpieces of Empire were sent forth to make the case for their precious and lucrative snooping monstrosity. The Sunday morning vanity fests served as the usual launching pads for the upcoming tsunami of deceit, fear-mongering, fibbing and self-serving that will again use fear of the outsider as the bludgeon that will enforce consent. It was Republicans who made the loudest case for Obama’s Stasi.

The same GOP cadre elite also support Obama’s immigration 'reform' policies precisely because their corporate paymasters need more cheap labor to drive down wages, bust unions and loot pension plans. Unlike the rank and file and other members of Congress who are kept in the dark about mass surveillance and data-mining there are those who enjoy access and actually have influence. There is the Gang of Eight, a sort of Senate within the Senate that is not mentioned anywhere in the constitution and this cabal exerts disproportionate control. This group typically includes McCain and Graham (and their new toady Marco Rubio) who are constantly in the media, pushing for war and oppression and are the go-to guys for the Pentagon and the armaments industry. Unlike the majority of Congress which is paralyzed due to partisan rancor and loyal only to special interests the gang is able to get things done by moving along or killing legislation. They will be instrumental in saving Obama's Stasi, as will Skull and Bonesman John Kerry and of course Dianne Feinstein who has never met a military or secret surveillance program that she couldn't support. Note that the other proponents of the NSA all benefit financially from the industry.

But I digress....

The formidable lineup of Republican media mouthpieces whooped up the fear and dread, dropped myriad 9/11 references and praised the NSA for their role in uncovering the evil plot. There was Peter King, the man who for years provided support for the Irish Republican Army, an outfit that was every bit the murderers of innocent civilians as Al Qaeda, you could pretty much by definition call Rep. King exactly what he is, a fat Gaelic terrorist. King sang the praises of Obama's surveillance state and then carried more water for the duplicitous administration in decrying  those conspiracy theorists who would dare call into question the fortuitous timing of panic mode over vague and unsubstantiated threats. Joining porcine Peter was of course John McCain's BFF Senator Lindsay Graham, a Sunday morning regular. Graham appeared on CNN's State of the Union with the insipid blathering sow Candy Crowley. Graham, in his most honey tongued Gomer Pyle twang proceeded to make the case for permanent religious war in the Middle East. They always reliable Graham practically crooned “If we ever take the bait, and try to come home and create fortress America, you’ll have another 9/11.” It was an obvious sucker punch to the Rand Paul, Justin Amash non-interventionist wing of the party and a deep, sloppy kiss to the neocons who are back in the game now. To Crowley's credit she did rebut Graham's lies and innuendo by asking him one of the forbidden questions:

“When you look at this map of U.S. embassies that are closed, twenty-two of them, most of them across the Muslim world, when you hear this global warning to all Americans to take care, what do you think that says?...Since the mission of terrorists is to terrorize, in some sense do you feel as if they’ve already won?”

The answer to that is obvious, were the 9/11 attacks engineered to destroy America from with the so-called "terrorists" should be running victory laps over the Sunday morning swill. By allowing psychotic terrorists like King and Graham who never met a carpet bombing of brown-skinned civilians that he didn't like it would in theory present a huge triumph for those who hated us for our freedoms and way of life. The problem is, and this is never defined by the corrupt corporate-state media is that those who hate us for those reasons are right here in the U.S.A. and are occupying the government as well as chairs on the propaganda circuit. Also showing up to throw down in favor of Obama's Stasi were Georgia senator Saxby Chambliss, he is the chickenhawk who shamefully attacked actual war veteran Max Cleland as soft on terror, airing a dirty smear campaign that no war veteran who lost three limbs in service to his country should ever have to face. Senator Chambliss is scum but in this heinously corrupt rotting empire amoral charlatans like him have clout.  Senator Draft Dodger also defended Obama's NSA:

"The one thing we can talk about is the fact that there's been an awful lot of chatter out there," the chatter is "very reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11." 

Then there are the stories about how Obama and McCain are now allies. As is typical, despite the rhetoric and public posturing when it comes right down to the preservation of the warfare state, unconstitutional mass surveillance, torture, bailouts to criminal banksters and giving themselves immunity to prosecution there is no daylight between the Democrat and Republican establishment. Fascism knows now party lines and the Republican defense of Obama's wanton neglect for the Constitution, a document that a good amount of the vermin and swine in the most corrupt Congress of all time find contemptible is a rallying point against the people in this country. 

Political whore-mongering, lies, double-dealing and graft chasing are one thing but the most disturbing aspect of all of this latest alleged threat is that we now once again are seeing a pattern emerge of the invocation of September 11, 2001 as justification for every abuse of power that followed. The cynical use of the most tragic day in the nation's history to make political hay by the previous administration, certain members of Congress and the always opportunistic defense and surveillance industry pimps was shameful. It was akin to pissing on the dead but that has never been beyond politicians, the uptick in invoking that which should never be used as another tool in the political toolbox over the last month has been as incessant as it is intolerable. That it is being used to justify NSA mass surveillance on innocent Americans is even more outrageous than the foreign wars of aggression that were sold to the public on the premise of payback for the attacks.

Interesting, the Obama administration and the government did so much to put their stamp on the official story of what occurred on September 11, 2001 as the national religion back on the tenth anniversary. Hell, the NFL, a preeminent American icon and corporate behemoth even participated, allowing their games that day to become a celebration of the mythology. So why is the scab now being pulled off?  And if 9/11 is now back on the board is it impolitic to ask just one question? What happened to WTC-7? The 47 story building that collapsed long after the initial attacks yet was never addressed by the Kean Commission outside of a footnote? If that very major event has never been adequately explained then why should any of it be believed? After all, that day as we have been repeatedly told changed everything - forever. 

So the embassy closures will continue now for at least another week, here is an idea for Barry - why not just close them permanently and get the hell out of parts of the world where we don’t belong? It will take a few generations but if you are forward thinking enouth maybe there will be a time when we are no longer feared and hated abroad. Despite all of the state crap propaganda about how they “hate us for our freedoms’ that is a lie of Hitlerian proportions. First off, if you take a good look around in 2013 we really are not “free” anymore thanks to the NSA intelligence colossus and secondly, they hate us for our intervening in their countries. Oh, and in breaking news the Obama administration State Department has just ordered Americans to immediately leave Yemen. I guess the locals aren't thrilled with Obama's ongoing drone attacks. 

Iran has been the vogue bogeyman but come on, what if the U.S. and CIA wouldn’t have participated in the overthrow of the democratically elected leader Mohammad Mosaddegh and the installation of the western golden boy the Shah and his vicious Savak secret police with their torture chambers? It takes balls to wreck the economy on a blood revenge mission against Saddam Hussein for being a man who kills his own people while Mohammad Resa Pahlavi was feted by U.S. leaders for decades while Iranians got their fingernails pulled out. How about the CIA support of Indonesia’s slaughterer in chief Suharto? Up to a million (nobody really knows) were summarily murdered, tortured and imprisoned in 1965 during the overthrow of Sukarno. Or what of Chile where the vicious thug Pinochet was backed by the U.S. elite when he launched his blood purge of the legitimately elected leader of his country? Or? Or? Or? Oh, Christ I can’t keep track of all of the atrocities committed for the sake of the uber-wealthy elite and then sold to the masses as justifiable interventions against the devil of the day.

The apple pie increasingly smells like baked horseshit when you really read your history – how does it feel to be the new Nazis?