Under the sewers of Washington, DC...

[kentuck]

In the darkest and most secure place it could find, a monster has been growing since the late 1940's. It has now matured. It's tentacles reach far and wide. Into the White House, into the Congress, into the Defense Department, and into the lives of normal Americans.

It breathes secrecy as a human would breathe air. Its power far exceeds that of a President or a Congress. It instills fear in mere politicians. It calls the shots and war is its meal ticket.

No one should question its purpose. It exists to protect our "national security". We pay it a handsome sum for its expertise,

But now, it wants more. It is mad and out of control...

[MADem]

1. NSA Bombshell Story Falling Apart Under Scrutiny; Key Facts Turning Out to Be Inaccurate

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/nsa-story-falling-apart-under-scrutiny-key-facts-turning-out-to-be-inaccurate/

The entire article is a MUST READ:

...As of Saturday, Greenwald, unlike the Washington Post, hadn’t corrected or revised his reporting to reflect the new information, and, in fact, Greenwald continued to defend his reporting on Twitter. (It’s worth noting how speculative Greenwald’s article was. The following line was particularly leading: “It also opens the possibility of communications made entirely within the US being collected without warrants.” There’s no indication whatsoever that the government was gathering information without warrants.)

10. Heads, sadly, continued to explode all over the place in spite of the total de-fanging of both stories.

11. Meanwhile, TechCrunch‘s Josh Constine reported on Saturday, “[T]he NSA did not have direct access or any special instant access to data or servers at the PRISM targets, but instead had to send requests to the companies for the data.”

This is vastly different from what Greenwald reported.

12. Rampant outrage all day Saturday.

13. And ultimately, other than the PRISM Power Point, the NSA’s surveillance story isn’t anything new.....

A couple of slobs who wrongly call themselves "journalists" got half of DU to jump up and down having shitfits.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. You KNOW something's REALLY BAD, when they go to these lengths (^^^) to deny.

[longship]

2. What's this? The next Dan Brown movie?

Or maybe Ray Harryhausen still lives and is working with Roger Corman again.

My question. When's the DVD getting released?

Just joking a bit. It is late and your post tickled my funny bone a little bit.

You get an R&K for that alone.


Regards.

[HereSince1628]

4. Anyone who appreciates the blackmailing nature of J. Edgar Hoover

would probably have some wariness about the intelligence communities desire for total information awareness.

[Recursion]

5. You're doing the NSA's job for it by buying into this myth

And they're in Laurel, MD, not Washington, DC, anyways.