The only reason we know about mass surveillance by the government is...

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 6 years ago to News
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...because of journalists who relied on informants leaking classified information at great personal risk.


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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years ago
    Am I correct that Congress doesn't enforce the 24th Amendment? I seem to recall the vote must come from the Cabinet officers. I don't think I am wrong about that, but I was wrong about something once!
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years ago
    What if it turns out there really was a coups? And if Barr has the proof? Whoa! Isn't that a conundrum?
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  • Posted by mminnick 6 years ago
    Most but not all of the "Classified leaks in the last two years have been done to damage the president and his people, not to provide necessary information to the American public. Some of the leaks did more damage to the intel community than damage to the president.
    Just because the leaks assist uyour side doesn't make them an honorable thinkg to do. When people die because of a leak, you have done great harm not a great right.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years ago in reply to this comment.
    That is the most reasonable conclusion we reached on several private posts on that subject.

    Now, let us see if Trump has anything up his sleeve.

    Last night they ran several clips of his pre presidential speeches where he praises Wikileaks but when asked the question at a new conference yesterday, he said it wasn't his thing.

    So, it seems the intermission is over and the show will start again forthwith.

    PS...did you get the links for the parts 5a and 5b of the Diehold series...Dan Posted it Public, (ewe invaded it too). I read Voit's chapter 11 where he talks about 64 different societies having similar legends of the last 4 catastrophe cycles, 10 of them mention that the earth started to rotate in the opposite direction during the event)...pretty conclusive I think.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 6 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Based upon what I perceive at the present time, Wikileaks/Assange and Snowden are heroes.
    Feds used 9-11 as an excuse to push through all their wish list unconstitutional invasions of privacy and destruction of other constitutional limitations on government powers. I think the feds were complicit in allowing 9-11 to occur for that reason.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years ago
    Julian Assange: Hero or Zero

    _ He's a traitor and should be extradited and prosecuted for treason.

    _ He released information the American People had a right to know about. He should be investigated for any criminal activities but not for publishing the information he obtained from Manning.

    √ The First Amendment trumps all. The government should be transparent.
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