Snowdon is a dummy

He may mean "Americans are guilty" because they do nothing about it; they claim ignorance or other reasons. What's that phrase? I can't think at the moment, but, it's basically if you're not for it, you're against it. No such thing as standing on middle ground. That's how Americans are guilty.

If the UK didn't do enough to protect you from US spying, you should complain to your own government. Evidently, it wasn't doing its job.

In a 22-page statement of grounds, Privacy International refers to the Prism programme, which allows the NSA to intercept the communications of non-US citizens living outside America from global internet companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo.

The Guardian revealed that some of this information has been shared with GCHQ. So far the government has refused to say under what legal authority this has been done – if GCHQ had wanted to get this material for itself in the UK, it would have to apply under the Regulatory of Investigatory Powers act (Ripa) for a warrant from a minister.

Campaigners fear Britain is circumventing its own rules to make it easier to get intelligence, and that the emails and calls of Britons are almost certainly being swept up by the NSA.

His shortcoming is in not recognizing that almost all governments have done the same thing to more or less of a degree.

I would never defend his opinions because he is so partisan to one opinion.

I disreguard everything he posts because he is unreasonable.

It must be hell to be you.

In China, even government officials who are caught with fraud are shot dead.

And no one remarks/calls you on your splendid examples of editorial excellence, Frank.


Frank A:
I supposed that the government was going to do many, many things that we were not going to like, in order to prevent (insofar as is possible) as many terroristic attacks as possible.

JTT:
Still you advance this egregious propaganda, Frank, never acknowledging the truth, that these piddly events that have occurred against the US are but a miniscule fraction of the terrorism the US has been engaged in for over a century.

Frank A: I also suspect (and will go on record here as saying) that we are probably one really effective terroristic attack (of the like of 9/11) from causing people to run for office PROMISING to do things that will make the stuff currently being disclosed look like piddly little nonsense. (And those people will be elected.)


JTT: Y'all have always been so easy to terrify, Frank. Again, you ignore history and the truth to pretend that you are revealing something new tat no one has ever thought of before.

This isn't your usual 'top of the class' stuff, Frank.


Frank A: [Insert Frank Apisa's top of the class editorial excellence here]

Finally, you've seen fit to reach deep and pull out Frank Apisa's best editorial stuff of all time. We should all be honored, deeply honored that you have bestowed this upon us, Frank. A lesser man would have saved it for TIME or his local rag or even Fox in order to enhance his own glory.

Not our Frank tho'!!!

Intelligence insiders and other experts are striking a common note on the recent media coverage of the NSA: German authorities depend strongly on cooperation, because they don't have the financial or the personnel resources, nor do they have the same far-reaching powers of other intelligence agencies.
The agencies exchange "finished intelligence" reports - summarized studies derived from intelligence "raw materials," Schmidt-Eenboom said. But things are different when it comes to terrorism and early warnings. "If the NSA discovers an acute threat, it will be sent immediately as an urgent matter to the respective German authorities and to the German chancellor's office."

Over 200 times we [the USA] have put our forces into other countries to force them to our will. We've been in the business of being a country for about 200 years. We've spent fifty years at war, - John Stockwell

To acknowledge what you do not know – is a display of strength. To pretend you know what you truly don’'t – is a display of weakness.

To pretend that what you do know to be true is false is the greatest of all displays of weakness.

David Davis was being interviewed on the radio the other day. He made a very good point about the pointlessness of large scale surveillance. Both the perpetrators of the 7/7 bombings and the men who killed Lee Rigby were known to police beforehand, but because they were part of massive reams of data, they weren't acted on. Intelligence needs to be more intelligent and targeted.

That should all sound familiar right now. If the government was willing to break into a doctor's office to steal files to smear a political opponent, why would I trust them now? Have humans changed so that we know that abuse of power is a thing of the past?