“The ‘architecture of oppression,’ as Snowden deemed it, has successfully built itself into our lives because it takes on the appearance of a defensive measure, a military tactic deployed against a foreign enemy. Yet this administration is rapidly dropping even that pretense, and their partisan hounds are baying ‘What have you got to hide?’ What we are faced with is the astonishing sight of an administration often hailed as among the most ‘liberal’ in our history making the case for government secrecy and surveillance on an unprecedented scale.”
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/08/13/data-gate-shows-were-on-the-cusp/
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