Hillary Clinton Flaunts Her Surveillance State Baggage

[ellenrr]

On Friday in England, Clinton boasted that two years ago she had favored a proposal by a top British General to train 100,000 "moderate" rebels to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria, but Obama had turned her down. The American Thatcher? In that same interview with the Guardian she also managed to get in yet another shot against Snowden for taking refuge in Russia "apparently under Putin's protection," unless, she taunted, "he wishes to return knowing he would be held accountable."

Accountable for telling the truth that Clinton concealed during her tenure as secretary of state in the Obama administration? Did she approve of the systematic spying on the American people as well as of others around the world, including the leaders of Germany and Brazil, or did she first learn of all this from the Snowden revelations?

On Saturday, a carefully vetted four-month investigation by the Washington Post based on material made available by Snowden revealed that while Clinton was in the government, the NSA had collected a vast trove of often intimate Internet correspondence and photos of innocent Americans, including many users of Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other leading Internet companies. The Post reported many files "described as useless by the [NSA] analysts but nonetheless retained ... have a voyeuristic quality. They tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/hillary-clinton-flaunts-h_b_5566021.html

[cali]

1. even with the loaded language used- such as "boasted"

this should send a chill down the backs of thinking dems who oppose the constant intervention of the U.S. in impossible situations.

but c'mon, Scheer, don't be so obvious. "taunted"? really. the editorializing by Scheer is too much.