NSA Defense Unmasks Democratic Establishment

[GliderGuider]

NSA Defense Unmasks Democratic Establishment

Using Orwellian language so extreme as to be darkly hilarious, this was the first line of the White House's statement opposing the amendment: "In light of the recent unauthorized disclosures, the President has said that he welcomes a debate about how best to simultaneously safeguard both our national security and the privacy of our citizens" (i.e.: we welcome the debate that has been exclusively enabled by that vile traitor, the same debate we've spent years trying to prevent with rampant abuse of our secrecy powers that has kept even the most basic facts about our spying activities concealed from the American people).

The White House then condemned Amash/Conyers this way: "This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process." What a multi-level masterpiece of Orwellian political deceit that sentence is. The highly surgical Amash/Conyers amendment - which would eliminate a single, specific NSA program of indiscriminate domestic spying - is a "blunt approach", but the Obama NSA's bulk, indiscriminate collection of all Americans' telephone records is not a "blunt approach". Even worse: Amash/Conyers - a House bill debated in public and then voted on in public - is not an "open or deliberative process", as opposed to the Obama administration's secret spying activities and the secret court that blesses its secret interpretations of law, which is "open and deliberative". That anyone can write a statement like the one that came from the Obama White House without dying of shame, or giggles, is impressive.

I don't find much here to disagree with, unfortunately. Combine this with the expunging of their previous admiration for whistleblowers, and we can see that the mask has definitely slipped. They are, after all, "The Man". Now they're just behaving like it in public.

[Electric Monk]

1. 5 recs and no comments yet? Ok, I'll say it: I keep hearing the sound track from Brazil

[nashville_brook]

2. been a lot lately that that's highly rec'd with few comments...

i read that as a collective "yeeeahhhp."

[Hydra]

4. There's just not much to say, really

The comments from the WH have been more disturbing than anything else that's happened so far, and that's saying something considering they grounded Morales' plane to look for Snowden.

Vague, condescending, and totally unhelpful. Sounds just like something from the Bush admin

[Electric Monk]

3. "The Man" is just behaving like it in public