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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou’s Open Letter to Edward Snowden

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“Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who is serving a thirty-month sentence in prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania, has written another letter. It expresses support for former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has exposed secret US government surveillance programs and policies, and provided a glimpse of the ever-expanding massive surveillance apparatus the government has built.  Kiriakou was the first member of the CIA to publicly acknowledge that torture was official US policy under the administration of President George W. Bush. He was convicted in October of last year of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.”

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/07/02/cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakous-open-letter-to-edward-snowden/

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Bush says ‘civil liberties were guaranteed’ under his NSA Internet surveillance

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“Former President George W. Bush is insisting that a NSA Internet surveillance program started during his administration ‘guaranteed’ civil liberties, and that Edward Snowden ‘damaged the country’ by leaking details about it.  In an interview with CNN, Bush was confident that ‘the Obama administration will deal’ with Snowden and the fallout from his leaks. ‘I think he damaged the security of the country,’ he explained. ‘I put the program in place to protect the country, and one of the certainties is civil liberties were guaranteed.’  The former president added that his program had found ‘the proper balance’ between privacy and security.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/01/bush-says-civil-were-liberties-guaranteed-under-his-nsa-internet-surveillance/

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The Surveillance State: How The War On Drugs And The War On Terror Go Hand In Hand

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“It is telling that in ten years there were only 15 terrorism related ‘sneak and peak’ warrants issued while the rest were predominantly for drugs. It is this mission creep which has led to many of the abuses behind not just the Drug War, but the War on Terror. It is the permanent state of war that has contributed to the lack of transparency that should concern all Americans as laws and technology collide. How do we balance the need for security and maintain our civil liberties? It is this discussion that requires the full light of day. Whether Edward Snowden’s leak of NSA information is heroic or treasonous, what he revealed about America should startle us all.”

http://www.ladybud.com/2013/06/19/the-surveillance-state-how-the-war-on-drugs-and-the-war-on-terror-go-hand-in-hand/

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Fact checking NSA’s 9/11 claim: U.S. already knew identity of Saudi hijacker

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“Those making the argument have ignored a key aspect of historical record.  U.S. intelligence agencies knew the identity of the hijacker in question, Saudi national Khalid al Mihdhar, long before 9/11 and had the ability find him, but they failed to do so.  Mihdhar is at the center of the well-known story of the failure of information sharing between the CIA and FBI and other agencies.  Indeed, the Obama administration’s invocation of the Mihdhar case echoes a nearly identical argument made by the Bush administration eight years ago when it defended the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/20/fact-checking-nsas-911-claim-u-s-already-knew-identity-of-saudi-hijacker/

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David Galland: What the Hell Is Wrong with Obama?

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“It sure seems like we are following the script set down by the neocons (Kristol, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Abrams, et al.) that years ago infiltrated the US military-political complex. This is the ‘Might is right’ crowd who believe in exercising US power proactively to knock down the dominos of all Middle Eastern countries Israel feels threatened by, with the end goal of remaking the Middle East as a region dominated by friendly democracies (or, in the case of Saudi Arabia, friendly dictatorships). Failing functioning democracies, turning the outcast countries into failed states that pose no real threat to US or Israeli interests.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-obama

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The Bush-Obama Great Stagnation

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“Robert Higgs has another must read in his ‘Etceteras …  Real Gross Domestic Private Product, 2000-2012’ in the most recent Independent Review. He provides good arguments on why government product should be (and perhaps almost was) excluded from income and product accounts. He then builds a measure of Real Gross Domestic Private Product for the Bush-Obama years.  Based on his calculations, he states, ‘Perhaps the most positive statement we can make about the private economy’s performance during this thirteen-year period is that it has been somewhat better than complete stagnation.'”

http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/06/the-bush-obama-great-stagnation/

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A life sentence … for pot?

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“The top federal prosecutor in Montana — Mike Cotter, the U.S. attorney appointed by President Obama in 2009 —   is breaking his silence and speaking publicly, for the first time, about his two-year crusade to shutter the medical marijuana industry and put its practitioners behind bars, in many cases for life sentences. And he is mincing no words. He says that pot has no medical value at all, for anyone, and that if you think otherwise, you are a sucker who has been duped ‘by slick Madison Avenue marketing’ employed by pot dealers. He says pot is a dangerous drug and growing it is a federal crime that must be punished.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/why_is_an_obama_appointee_launching_an_anti_marijuana_crusade/

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Pelosi booed at Netroots while defending espionage charges against Snowden

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“A man identified by Politico as 57-year-old Marc Perkel can be heard shouting, ‘It’s not a balance. It’s not constitutional! No more secret laws!’ Perkel was ejected from the room by security, while other audience members shouted for him to be left alone. Shortly thereafter, loud boos can be heard coming from the audience after she said former NSA contractor Edward Snowden ‘did violate the law’ in releasing details about NSA programs like PRISM.  Pelosi also defended President Barack Obama against charges that the surveillance of private residents’ phone and internet use constituted a ‘fourth term’ for his predecessor, George W. Bush.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/22/pelosi-booed-at-netroots-while-defending-espionage-charges-against-snowden/

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Michael Hastings’ Final Article Before Car Explosion: ‘Why Democrats Love To Spy On Americans’

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“For most bigwig Democrats in Washington, D.C., the last 48 hours has delivered news of the worst kind — a flood of new information that has washed away any lingering doubts about where President Obama and his party stand on civil liberties, full stop. Glenn Greenwald’s exposure of the NSA’s massive domestic spy program has revealed the entire caste of current Democratic leaders as a gang of civil liberty opportunists, whose true passion, it seems, was in trolling George W. Bush for eight years on matters of national security.  ‘Everyone should just calm down,’ Senator Harry Reid said yesterday, inhaling slowly. That’s right: don’t panic.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-on-americans

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Bill Ayers: Obama should be put on trial for war crimes

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“Radical anti-war revolutionary turned education advocate Bill Ayers said Tuesday he believed President Barack Obama should be charged with war crimes. Ayers, who co-founded the far left revolutionary Weather Underground group, told Tom Bevan and Charlie Stone of Real Clear Politics that Obama’s use of targeted drone strikes was ‘absolutely’ a form of terrorism. ‘Every president in this century should be put on trial for war crimes,’ he said. ‘Absolutely. Every one of them goes into an office dripping with blood and then adds to it. And yes, I think these are war crimes. I think they’re acts of terror.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/18/bill-ayers-obama-should-be-put-on-trial-for-war-crimes/

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