“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, “whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,” and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
— John Adams
Ja da sagt man, dass seien alles nur Verschwörungstheorien. Die Enthüllungen durch Snowden u. a. zeigen wie sehr vor allem die angelsächsischen Regierungen uns belügen und hintergehen. Das hat mit Demokratie schon längst nichts mehr zu tun. Geschweige dass eine funktionierende demokratisch legitimierte Kontrolle vorhanden wäre.
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Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) said lawmakers learned „significantly more“ about the spy programs at the National Security Agency (NSA) during a briefing on Tuesday with counterterrorism officials.
„What we learned in there,“ Sanchez said, „is significantly more than what is out in the media today.“
Lawmakers are barred from revealing the classified information they receive in intelligence briefings, and Sanchez was careful not to specify what members might have learned about the NSA’s work.
„I can’t speak to what we learned in there, and I don’t know if there are other leaks, if there’s more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it’s the tip of the iceberg,“ she said.
Quelle: The Hill
„But what if the government abuses the vast surveillance power it is accumulating? What if the NSA is used for political purposes, not safety? This is often left out of the debate, or dismissed outright. (…) Unfortunately, the NSA has already abused its surveillance power in at least one case where political opponents were targeted, and it’s a big one.
In 2003, a woman named Katharine Gun, who was working for a British intelligence agency, leaked a memo to the press from an NSA agent named Frank Koza. It described a massive American effort to monitor the communications of six delegations to the United Nations—the so-called “Middle Six” who were undecided on authorizing the Iraq War and who were being fiercely courted by both sides.“
Quelle: The Nation
” They’re eating crow right now. Those are lies. Those are just outright lies. Obviously they are, with that court order. They’re scooping up the metadata of everything, and the PRISM program is a scoop up of actual content. Emails, video, photographs, all of that—that’s content. So they’re collecting all of it, and it’s a big vacuum. So you know, those are just outright lies.”
Business Insider 10.6.2013
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