Sunday Shows meet Glenn Greenwald!

[MNBrewer]

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/09/sunday_shows_meet_glenn_greenwald/

There are two key findings. One is that there are members of the Congress who have responsibility for oversight, for checking the people who run this vast secret apparatus of spying to make sure they are not abusing their power. These people in Congress have continuously asked for the NSA to provide basic information about how many Americans they are spying on, how many conversations and telephone and chats of Americans they are intercepting, and the NSA continuously tells them we don’t have the capability to tell you that, to even give you a rough estimate. So with these documents that we published show, that were marked top secret to prevent the American people from learning about them, was that the NSA keeps extremely precise statistics, all the data that the senators announced (ph) where the NSA has falsely claimed does not exist, and the other thing that it does, as you said, is it indicates just how vast and massive the NSA is in terms of sweeping up all forms of communication around the globe, including domestically.

But, Mr. Greenwald, Stephanopoulos asks, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says your reporting is filled with inaccuracies: what do you think about this, hmm? And there goes Glenn, off to the races: “Every single time any major media outlet reports on something that the government is hiding, that political officials don’t want people to know,” he says, the “people in power” go after “the media as the messenger and they are trying to discredit the story.” The people in power will deny any knowledge of these things — “it has been going back decades, to the Pentagon papers… The only thing being damaged is the credibility” of public officials here. Meet Glenn Greenwald, America!

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“Here’s the point,” Diane Feinstein says while approaching a point. Will it have to do with 9/11? “I flew over World Trade Center going to Senator Lautenberg’s funeral…” Oh God. Diane Feinstein thought of bodies jumping out of the World Trade Center, “hitting the canopy,” on the way to Frank Lautenberg’s funeral, while also looking at the Statue of Liberty, and that’s why she wants you to shut up about your precious liberties.

[RobertEarl]

1. Hello, Glenn!

Thank you. And welcome to the Sunday American news programs.

[Thinkingabout]

2. The old saying "Loose lips sinks ships" still rings true. If you are going to

Allowed top secret clearance then you need to shut your mouth after leaving whatever position you held. You offer a few greenbacks to some and they would sell their parents and kids to get the money. There should be strong consequences for those who violate. I knew several years ago gathering of materials was being done and illegal wiretapping and then the Patriot Act was passed to at least put the information in FISA court for a judge to rule on. The answer is simple, if you do not want your phone call records available, your emails recorded, your text messages recorded then don't participate. You are exercising your freedom to participate, stop your crying and whining and get over it.