At some point, we LOST the cold war and the AXIS powers won.
Soviet-style media clampdown? Taken care of by the media cartels.
East German-style spying? Facebook, Google, ATT, Verizon, Onstar, etc make that possible.
In case after case, the DOJ uses State Secrets to squash lawsuits and FOIA requests regarding the NSA’s domestic surveillance programs.
Here’s what one of the NSA whistleblowers, William Binney, said at HOPE 9 recently:
“Domestically, they’re pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you’re doing. So the government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it’s a very dangerous process.” He estimated that one telecom alone was sending the government an “average of 320 million logs every day since 2001.”
