The latest scandal in Obamaville is the NSA secret surveillance of phone records of all Americans coupled with the PRISM operation which secretly obtaining email, photos, videos, documents, and everything else going across the internet. It remains unclear if there were limitations on PRISM that confine it just to foreign communications or if all communications in America were included. Either way, one has to wonder what the point of all this surveillance is.
Let me put it this way. We know from news reports that Major Nidal Hassan, the terrorist who killed thirteen people at Fort Hood, had a long correspondence by email with a radical Muslim cleric in the Arabian peninsula and that the cleric has ties to al Qaeda. This is just the sort of thing that should be picked up by PRISM. We also know that Tamarlan Tsarnaev had communications by various means with folks in Russia who have terrorist ties. On top of this, the Russian state security force warned the USA about Tsarnaev by name. The NSA operation should have easily been able to obtain all of the Tsarnaev communications to confirm his ties to Islamic terrorism long before the bomb blew up in Boston. Where was the NSA? Again I say, what was the point of all this surveillance?
President Obama says today that this "minimal encroachment" on privacy is needed to keep us all safe. But, if it has not worked, why is it needed?
What we have is a massive system that does not seem to work all that well. It may be that the people who are running the system are incompetent. It may be that the politicians who are in charge of the folks running the system do not want to hear about problems. We do not know yet.
Is the reason that Major Hassan's murder spree was called "workplace violence" by Obama and the Obamacrats because the NSA had indeed picked up Hassan as a potential terrorist and the politicians stopped any action against him? It could be. Were the Tsarnaev brothers left free after PRISM identified them as terror suspects? Again, it could be. We would never know. For all we know, Tamarlan Tsarnaev said something on the internet that confirmed that it was he and some friends who had murdered three "infidels" (two Jews and a Christian) a year ago in order to finance his trip to Russia for terror training. It could be.
I realize that I sound like a conspiracy theorist. I am not. The problem, however, is that we have a situation where we know that the secret system did not stop these heinous acts of terrorism. It seems like that should not be the case, however. Certainly, neither Obama or his cronies will tell us, and even if they did, who would believe them? These people have forfeited all claims to credibility.
Let me put it this way. We know from news reports that Major Nidal Hassan, the terrorist who killed thirteen people at Fort Hood, had a long correspondence by email with a radical Muslim cleric in the Arabian peninsula and that the cleric has ties to al Qaeda. This is just the sort of thing that should be picked up by PRISM. We also know that Tamarlan Tsarnaev had communications by various means with folks in Russia who have terrorist ties. On top of this, the Russian state security force warned the USA about Tsarnaev by name. The NSA operation should have easily been able to obtain all of the Tsarnaev communications to confirm his ties to Islamic terrorism long before the bomb blew up in Boston. Where was the NSA? Again I say, what was the point of all this surveillance?
President Obama says today that this "minimal encroachment" on privacy is needed to keep us all safe. But, if it has not worked, why is it needed?
What we have is a massive system that does not seem to work all that well. It may be that the people who are running the system are incompetent. It may be that the politicians who are in charge of the folks running the system do not want to hear about problems. We do not know yet.
Is the reason that Major Hassan's murder spree was called "workplace violence" by Obama and the Obamacrats because the NSA had indeed picked up Hassan as a potential terrorist and the politicians stopped any action against him? It could be. Were the Tsarnaev brothers left free after PRISM identified them as terror suspects? Again, it could be. We would never know. For all we know, Tamarlan Tsarnaev said something on the internet that confirmed that it was he and some friends who had murdered three "infidels" (two Jews and a Christian) a year ago in order to finance his trip to Russia for terror training. It could be.
I realize that I sound like a conspiracy theorist. I am not. The problem, however, is that we have a situation where we know that the secret system did not stop these heinous acts of terrorism. It seems like that should not be the case, however. Certainly, neither Obama or his cronies will tell us, and even if they did, who would believe them? These people have forfeited all claims to credibility.
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