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All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama

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“Even if all the critics were proved wrong, even if the CIA, NSA, FBI, and every other branch of the federal government had been improbably filled, top to bottom, with incorruptible patriots constitutionally incapable of wrongdoing, this would still be so: The American people have no idea who the president will be in 2017. What we know is that the people in charge will possess the capacity to be tyrants — to use power oppressively and unjustly — to a degree that Americans in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, or 2000 could’ve scarcely imagined. To an increasing degree, we’re counting on having angels in office and making ourselves vulnerable to devils.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/all-the-infrastructure-a-tyrant-would-need-courtesy-of-bush-and-obama/276635/

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Glenn Greenwald exposes Obama surveillance to CNN

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Glenn Greenwald exposes Obama surveillance to CNN

“The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald talks to Howard Kurtz about exposing the Obama administration’s surveillance program.”

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Glenn Greenwald Vs Bush Press Sec. Ari Fleischer Over NSA’s PRISM

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Glenn Greenwald Vs Bush Press Sec. Ari Fleischer Over NSA’s PRISM

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Justin Raimondo: Police-State ‘Progressivism’

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“Verizon and other carriers are forbidden by law from revealing the court order. A secret court, such as the FISA court – under which this order was issued – isn’t really a court in the Western sense: it is a star chamber affair, a formality that rubber-stamps whatever our rulers desire at the moment.  In what sense is the United States a ‘free’ country, let alone the leader of the ‘Free World’? Sure, we have elections: so does Iran. Yes, we have a ‘free’ press, but what happens when sources are afraid of talking to reporters? With a massive database that may even be tracking our location, America’s political class is making itself invulnerable to any challenge.”

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/06/06/police-state-progressivism/

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Collection of phone records stirs debate: Valuable tool or ‘beyond Orwellian’?

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“Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the program helped to disrupt ‘terrorist plots’ on U.S. soil. ‘It is lawful,’ the California Democrat insisted. ‘It has been briefed by Congress.’ Reps. Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger, the two top Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, both stressed that ‘this important collection tool does not allow the government to eavesdrop’ and that it is routinely reviewed by Congress.  White House spokesman Josh Earnest further stressed the importance of ensuring ‘we have the tools we need to confront the threat posted by terrorists (and to) protect the homeland.'”

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/06/politics/nsa-verizon-records/index.html

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Glenn Greenwald: On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation

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“They could easily enrich themselves by selling those documents for huge sums of money to foreign intelligence services. They could seek to harm the US government by acting at the direction of a foreign adversary and covertly pass those secrets to them. They could gratuitously expose the identity of covert agents. None of the whistleblowers persecuted by the Obama administration as part of its unprecedented attack on whistleblowers has done any of that: not one of them. They undertook great personal risk and sacrifice for one overarching reason: to make their fellow citizens aware of what their government is doing in the dark.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/07/whistleblowers-and-leak-investigations

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Obama picks former Bush official James Comey as new FBI director

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“Barack Obama is preparing to name a former Bush administration who was heavily involved in some of the most controversial issues of that era, including illegal wiretapping and torture, as the new director of the FBI. Since leaving the Justice Department, Comey has been working as a hedge fund manager and lecturer. Comey, 52, is set to replace Robert Mueller, who has headed the agency since the week before the 9/11 attack and is due to step down in September. The expected nomination comes at a time when the agency is under siege on a series of issues.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/30/obama-picks-former-bush-official-james-comey-as-new-fbi-director/

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Paul Craig Roberts: Why Disinformation Works

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“Have you ever wondered how the government’s misinformation gains traction? What I have noticed is that whenever a stunning episode occurs, such as 9/11 or the Boston Marathon bombing, most everyone whether on the right or left goes along with the government’s explanation, because they can hook their agenda to the government’s account.”

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/05/23/why-disinformation-works-paul-craig-roberts/

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Merkel, the Red footsoldier: Photos of German chancellor’s Communist uniform released

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“She denies she was close to the Communist rulers in East Germany, where she grew up. So this 1972 photo of her in military-style uniform has left German Chancellor Angela Merkel ‘not amused’. Then called Angela Kasner and aged 17, she is shown happily involved in a civil defence exercise under the gaze of an East German officer. Drills included first aid and preparing for nuclear attack.  Mrs Merkel is also alleged to have been a propaganda secretary for the youth movement, the FDJ.  The photo was found by an old schoolfriend, Sonja Felssberg, 58, and handed to a German newspaper.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328536/Angela-Merkel-Communist-links-new-image-uniform-released.html

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Churchill and Stalin made ‘merry’ until early hours

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“Wartime talks between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin were proving awkward until a drinking session lasting until 3am, newly released files show. In a Foreign Office account of the 1942 Moscow visit, an official recalls finding the men enjoying ‘food of all kinds… and innumerable bottles’. The mood was ‘merry as a marriage-bell’ although Churchill was ‘complaining of a slight headache’ by 1am. The letter adds: ‘The two great men really made contact and got on terms.'”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22623251

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