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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongress can't get basic info from NSA, but DEA can get details on suspected Americans.
Anyone else find something about that wrong? It's more than an example of just-us run amok.
I call Secret Government un-American because the above shows it's un-Democratic. In addition, there's:
No Scrutability.
No Accountability.
No Telling Who Benefits.
When "Money trumps peace" explains the true business of America, then NSA spying on Americans represents more than a Constitutional problem for the United States of America. It's existential.
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Congress can't get basic info from NSA, but DEA can get details on suspected Americans. (Original Post)
Octafish
Aug 2013
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Secret government, secret laws, secret courts, secret spying ... what a democracy.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)2. Really, should be on the cover of Newsweak.
Anyone with two brain cells knows Cable's got lots more'n two channels.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)5. More like: A, WHAT DEMOCRACY
Kinda stings when it's all gathered up like that.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)4. Only a Supreme Court stacked with fascists would allow this to happen.
The neocon nutjobs appointed by Pruneface, Poppy and Smirko have enabled the national security state to destroy the Constitution, in particular We the People's parts.
Anyone who wonders should remember that the Florida stealing John Roberts personally appoints the FISA court which allows the unitary executive to hijack new powers un-Constitutionally.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)6. At some point I wish Sibel would lose her gag
It seems the same players keep popping up.