President Barack Obama, Bob Schieffer, Ed Snowden, James Clapper, NSA: Notes Part 2
President Barack Obama, currently leader for the 1%, is *still* telling lies. He lies about what he says he understands about these programs, how they work, whom is involved in the work and at what levels.
President Obama pretends* to reassure us all; as consumers, and he sees us as consumers not citizens, to continue as consumers of digital goods, solely concerned with the convenience of the device, with no care of how they can be misused, there is no reason to worry.
In the following video we see the incumbent POTUS speaking while a U.S. Senator two years before his campaign for the presidency explaining his views on so-called entitlement programs…@ 1:41 he begins to address solutions for the 21st Century.
We are not listening to your phone calls (or if we are don't worry). We are not compiling data about you for use at a later date (we are simply compiling data, which is not about you, yet). Sadly many people believe him.
Excerpt from the transcript of an NBC News interview by Andrea Mitchell of James Clapper, Director of the National Security Agency NSA conducted on June 9, 2013:
ANDREA MITCHELL:
Now Americans might say, "Yes, but terrorists succeeded in Boston at the marathon, terrorists have succeeded elsewhere and not been thwarted, despite all of this information that is gathered by N.S.A."--
JAMES CLAPPER:
Right. Well, that's true, and I find it a little ironic that in-- several weeks ago, after the Boston bombings, we were accused of not being sufficiently intrusive. We are suppo-- we were-- we didn't-- we failed to determine the exact tipping point when the brothers self-radicalized.
And then it was we weren't intrusive enough. I don't mean to be a smart guy here, it's just that this is emblematic of the serious debate that goes on in this country between the two poles of security and civil liberties and privacy. And what we must, and I thought the president spoke-- really articulately about this yesterday in California.And he is-- is exactly on the money. And that the challenge for us is navigating between those two poles. It's not a balance, it's not either/or. There has-- there has to be that balance and-- so that we protect the country and also protect civil liberties and privacy.
NBC News:
What the president said in part was, "You can't have a 100% security and then you have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience. We're going to have to make some choices as a society." There are accidents. NBC News was told by one of your predecessors Dennis Blair that in fact one digit was inaccurately-- inputted back in 2009 and it was a completely innocent person whose telephone conversations was actually-- were actually eavesdropped on.
JAMES CLAPPER, NSA Director:There-- there is no question, and I-- I certainly want-- wouldn't want to leave the impression that this process, as complex and voluminous as it is, is perfect. Certainly it isn't. What we do try to do though is when errors are detected, and understand most of this is done through a computer process, it's not being done directly by human eyes and ears.
And so-- but the computer processes are directed by humans. And when we discover errors which in all cases I'm familiar with were innocent and unintended, they are immediately corrected. And any of the ill-begotten collection is destroyed. And this is all done in response to court oversight and court direction.
Would that be the secret court? The one that makes secret rulings regarding secret laws no one knows they are transgressing??
Mr. Clapper falls back on the tried and true excuse, "...most of this is done through a computer process, it's not being done directly by human eyes and ears... the computer processes are directed by humans." Yet we are to understand the humans are *not* the ones who are culpable for the errors they are responsible to correct, because those errors are the computer's errors. "We destroy any data collected in error....And this is all done in response to court oversight and court direction." Frankly, when we hear such explanations we stop listening when we hear words computer, error and humans all in the same sentence.
We understand the idea of an informed public nowadays seems counter intuitive, and is certainly not necessary or useful to government as business, militarization, and current totalitarian capitalist and communist configurations.
Mark Fiore seems to articulate what we may be feeling especially those of us who voted for President Obama...twice!
After the president spoke to reassure, the National Security Agency clarified in a new classified briefing it does not need court authorization to listen to our domestic phone calls. They, have decided they are above the law; they are beyond the reach of laws decided by the public or the people. (The people cannot pass a law they do not know about. ) They obey the secret laws of the 1 percent. The laws not determined or decided by the public, these are the laws created and decided in secret and dictated to the public.
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