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In reply to the discussion: Al Gore: Edward Snowden's 'Important Service' [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)But avoiding an attack seems like almost the last thing at which the metadata collections eems directed. The very defense of it here is that nobody looks at the stuff. Cause, ya know, the government always tells us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And no US bureaucrat or administration abuses its power.
Of course, true as that may be in other cases that isn't true about metadata. Even the government has admitted that some have used it to check on their spouses, ex spouses and significant others. And, if they've admitted to that. what else has happened that they are not voluntarily disclosing? But, let's assume for a second that no one ever does look at most of it. Does that suggest the goal of it is preventing an attack, or obtaining a verdict after an attack? That is what I was responding to.
But, I very much agree with you that 911 was a boon to the PTB in ever so many different ways. And, follow the money. When you do, you find that it's almost always intended to benefit the right and/or hurt the left, just as the money was supposed to help Nixon cover up his connection to the Watergate break in.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.