farglebargle
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/1/101840/7097 quote:
A simple explanation of what BushCo is hiding and why they are parsing the language to keep it hidden: Just as Dick Cheney set up a separate intelligence office from the CIA and DIA, BushCo established an intelligence-gathering entity emphasizing primarily domestic surveillance, differentiating it from the primarily "overseas" mission of the NSA. This domestic intelligence-gathering entity had it's origins in John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program, which began in 2001 even before the 9/11 attacks. Moreover, this domestic data-collection entity was comprised of a bunch of Republican-crony private data-collection companies, which gained access to and began storing private information about U.S. citizens from telecommunication and banking institutions. Therefore, BushCo farmed out domestic intelligence-gathering to privately-owned companies and "loyal Bushie" public corporations, essentially bypassing the NSA's legal restrictions on domestic spying as well as any oversight by the FISA court in the process, in an attempt to gather as much private data on U.S. citizens as possible, for anti-terrorism purposes or for purely partisan reasons, as BushCo tried to implement PNAC's dream of permanent Republican control of our federal government. Anyway, there is no doubt that BushCo is trying to hide what they've been doing. My theory is that they're trying to not only cover their own butts, but also are covering for all the "loyal Bushie" U.S. companies complicit in this massive, FISA-skirting, semi-NSA-connected domestic data-mining operation. Thus, BushCo's language parsing. Legal NSA surveillance programs...with congressional oversight? Other intelligence-gathering programs...not so legal and with little or no congressional oversight? BushCo talking up legal government programs while downplaying (or not talking about at all) the privatized, rogue intelligence-gathering activities of U.S. companies and corporations? When BushCo parses the language, this is what I hear them saying. They are trying to keep a wall of disinformation and misinformation erected between the legal surveillance side and what BushCo has been doing illegally. And they are trying to protect all the U.S. companies and corporations (i.e. "loyal Bushie CEOs) that have aided and abetted BushCo's highly-illegal, anti-American criminal domestic intelligence-gathering pursuits.
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