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Remember that all the information given out by the current NSA whistle blower, Edward Snowden, originally came out back in 2004 or 05 via the New York Times. And all of it was revealed in the book, State of War, by New York Times reporter, James Risen. So what’s the big deal? How can you be a whistle blower by revealing things that anybody can find at the local library or on past New York Times best seller lists?

As for the Fox Propaganda Network, Sean Hannity says it all in his vicious attacks against President Obama, whereas several years earlier, after the Times came out with the story, Hannity praised Bush for having the NSA spy on us in violation of the US Constitution.

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How can the US government charge Edward Snowden with revealing the existence of the National Security Agency (NSA) spy program on US citizens since the New York Times revealed it’s existence ten years ago? And what about New York Times reporter, James Risen? He wrote a detailed book about it called State of War. So far as I can tell in rereading the book, Snowden hasn’t revealed any information that hasn’t already been revealed.

Snowden’s defense may be simple. How can he have revealed something that has already been revealed on the New York Times best seller list? The government’s case is weak, at best.

All the crap being said about Snowden is nonsense, about being a traitor and other stuff, especially since Washington Post journalist Robert Novak revealed the identity of CIA deep undercover operative Valerie Plame right there on the pages of the Post a decade ago. That information was given to him by George W. Bush’s Undersecretary of State Richard Armitage. According to court records, this was authorized by then Vice President Dick Cheney. They revealed her identity and, in doing so, blew up a multi-billionaire dollar CIA front company named Brewster-Jennings, which she had worked for as an under cover agent, and which was used to monitor the movements of weapons and nuclear materials across the middle east. Why didn’t Novak, Cheney and Armitage go to prison? Why didn’t the Bush regime go after them? Oh, that’s right. It was all politically motivated, but the damage to national security was done.

So what has Snowden done? Nothing so far as damage to national security, and nothing so far as information that you can obtain from your local library.

At best, the government might be able to convict Snowden of giving out information by having read it in Risen’s book.

This suggests that all of this nonsense about Snowden is another attempt to distract the public. But from what impending disaster? A coming recession worst than last time? The potential and likely astronomical cost of the Affordable Care Act when it takes full effect on January 1, 2014? A secretly scheduled attack on Iran? Who knows?

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The book about how your calls and emails and Facebook accounts are being secretly watched was released way back in 2006. It’s called State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. Sure, maybe President Obama has expanded the program a little, but then maybe not. If you want a good read about the subject, this book is it. And people wonder why I call George W. Bush the most corrupt president in US history. This book illustrates only one of the ways that Bush was so massively corrupt, as well as completely incompetent.

Just think about this. You can write to the National Security Agency (NSA), which has a budget many times larger than the CIA and does much of the illegal spying, and request any information they have on you under the Freedom of Information Act. They responded to me with a form letter stating, among other things, “…because of the highly classified nature of the program, we can neither confirm nor deny whether records relating to you under this program exist. The fact of the existence or non-existence of responsive records is a currently and properly classified matter in accordance with Executive Order 12958, as amended.” An executive order is given only by the president of the United States, which, in this case, was GW, himself.

The corrupt, corporate wing of the US Supreme Court ruled back then that you need to prove that the government is spying on you in order to stop it from doing so. Naturally, the NSA will neither confirm nor deny that you’re being spied on. So you can’t get any evidence. In other words, the government can send agents to break into your house when you’re not there, download everything on your computer, search your papers, your soiled undewear and other private things, and you can’t do anything about unless you have clear proof that the government was involved.

In addition, the court has ruled that certain government information is classified, and you’re not entitled to it if agents of the government simply say it’s a matter of national security. That information could be important; like you work at a Seven-Eleven, date a girl named Roxie, live in an apartment, wrote an email to a friend in Canada in which you mentioned that Roxie’s pit bull is a terror, and that you’re thinking about going back to school, are matters of national security. All an agent of the government has to do is say to the court that this information is classified as a matter of national security.

The court’s ruling is shocking since the program is clearly unconstitutional. The only reason they would argue that you need proof that you, personally, are being spied on, is to protect the illegal activity. The court could simply issue a legal decision that effectively bars the US government from this illegal activity, but it didn’t.

And that’s how corrupt your federal government is at all levels.

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By Rich Rodriquez,

“We now have evidence the US Government has been vacuuming huge amounts of data from domestic servers. Prior we saw evidence the US Government has tapped the major fiber cables entering / leaving the United States gaining assess to virtually all communications, international and domestic. We know that at the time Occupy Wall Street was crushed in several states nearly simultaneously there were nationally coordinated conference calls with State Governors sponsored by a police organization located in Washington DC to ‘discuss’ the situation. We also know that Occupy Wall Street was penetrated by various ‘intelligence’ agencies.”

From the editor:

A lot of us have been pointing out this stuff for nearly a decade. A New York Times reporter even wrote a book about the program, which I purchased. It seems like it came out about 2006 or so. We were laughed at and ignored by Republicans, especially the grassroots. Most grass root Republicans seemed to have supported the program when morally reprehensible Republican President George W. Bush was ordering the dirty deed done. Now that there’s a Democratic president simply following through with the program illegally established by Bush, grass roots Republicans are outraged. They were the sheep when this program came out, now they want to be the patriotic lions. Many of the Republicans in office today stand behind the program, as do many Democrats. But there’s one truth that can’t be ignored.

The real lions, in this case, were those on the left who stood up and exposed this program more than a decade ago. By the way, there were some in the Bush Justice Department who were lions against the illegal program established by Bush. That includes his acting Attorney General, Bill Comey, in the video below.

On last thing needs to be pointed out. If anybody doesn’t think the US government was illegally keeping close tabs on Occupy Wall Street, they’re fools, or idiots, or both. Of course, the federal government coordinated the attacks on the Occupy camps. The last thing the government wanted was resistance spreading to Wall Street’s agenda to rip everybody off, and Occupy was a potential vehicle for doing just that, so those folks had to be silenced.

And when I say Wall Street, I mean most everybody among the top 0.05 percent richest American’s who get rich and richer via the Ponzi scheme known as Wall Street.

You don’t think there’s an economic reason why the government keeps illegal taps on millions of phone calls, emails, Twitter activity, Facebooking, etc….? Think again.

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It was Wednesday March 10, 2004. There was a presidential crisis. The US Constitution had been hijacked.

Some time before that day, President George W. Bush had ordered the National Security Agency and other governmental agencies to spy on American citizens without warrants. It was a massive program that spied on tens of thousands of citizens.

The 4th amendment of the US Constitution is clear about this, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Bush had sworn a presidential oath of office to protect the Constitution. Instead, he was burning it under an avalanche of crimes. March 10, 2004 made it obvious that this was so obviously an impeachment moment that didn’t come to pass because most members of congress are bought and paid for plutocrats, on the corporate dole, behind the backs of the 99 percent.

Below is video of the congressional testimony of Bush’s own acting US attorney general of how Bush destroyed the 4th amendment, and then tried to cover it up by making it appear that his destruction of the 4th amendment was legal.

Bush was the worst and most corrupt president in US history. The ultimate question is, Why isn’t he in prison?

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He was the worst president in US history, he also was the most incompetent and perhaps the most corrupt president in US history. And so the crowd waits eagerly for the unveiling of his statue.

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Why is President Obama so adamant about going after government whistle blowers, while making no effort at all at going after the crooks on Wall Street who tanked the economy? The answer is simple. Obama serves corporate interests, that includes Wall Street. Government whistle blowers are a threat to the corporate/government symbiotic chain of profits that redistributes income from working folks to the 1 percent via Wall Street and taxpayers.

Why doesn’t Obama close down the torture chambers at Guantanamo? Because it’s profitable to the private companies that operate the facilities. Likewise, why is Wall Street interests such a heavy influence in Comprehensive Immigration Reform? The answer is those folks are in it for profits at the expense of everybody else. And so it goes in all sectors of the Federal Government. The quest for private sector profits are determining national policies ranging from the above to federal education policy to whether or not we go to war. The interests of ever expanding profits are more important than people.

The same is true with both ideological sides of the corrupt US Supreme Court. The conservative side is always siding with the Koch Brothers, and the liberal side decided that the government can tax us for not buying health care via legislation that was written by the health insurance companies, which opens the door to other things we could be forced to buy, or else get taxed for not buying it.

In other words, Obama, like almost all Republicans, 80 percent of Democrats, President George W. Bush and many others, is letting the quest for profits determine national policies in almost all areas of American life.

Whistle blowers can reveal information that might prove what is already obvious, but the details might prove even more embarrassing to the administration, to the corrupt congress, to both corrupt political parties, as well as the corrupt corporate media that intends to side with the corrupt federal government . That’s why the whistle blowers need to be stopped. They’re bad for business, and the business of the US government is to make the rich wealthier at the expense of us all regardless of how many laws are broken by Obama’s Wall Street cronies.

Check out the links below for Comedian Jon Stewart’s comments on the issue.

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Over thirty million jobs have been shipped out of the US since 1990. One to two million are being off shored every year, according to the Federal Reserve. The results are simple. The rich are getting richer, there are rising numbers of US citizens unemployed or who have stopped looking for work, homelessness and joblessness are rising, school district budgets are constraining since much of the tax base has been redistributed to the 1 percent via free trade treaties and their congressional supporters, such as Wall Street Senator Ron “Fetch Boy” Wyden. We know homelessness has been created by congress and the president via legislation that redistributes income from the 99 to the 1 percent so much that Hoovervilles have been rising up all over the nation.

During the Great Depression, a Hooverville was anywhere and everywhere people found places to live along road sides, and they were named after another Wall Street president, Herbert Hoover, whose Republican economic policies, and those of his predecessor, President Calvin Coolidge, destroyed the nation.

Two videos are below. The first is about the original Hoovervilles, and the second is about the modern Obama/Bush43/Bush41/Clinton/Reaganvilles. The jobless have become the homeless.

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