Marine Corps Colonel speaks out, "We're building a domestic army"

There are things people talk about we never see on the news. Lately some of my friends and I have been wondering when someone will actually question the security of this country given two low level people not only got their hands on classified information, but were able to release them.

Stop and think as you read about Pfc. Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. Someone thought it would be safe to let these two get their hands on secret information. What does that say about the people in charge? Should make us all nervous about who else is out there only instead of giving the information, they give it to other nations or worse, more terrorists.

To me, it isn't so much the government is doing it but the fact the government doesn't know who is doing what with what they do scares the crap out of most of the people I know.

I don't buy into most conspiracy theories for one very simple reason. There is enough of the known stuff going on to worry about.

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"We're building a domestic army" -Marine Corps Colonel speaks out

UPDATE

NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands Of Times, Harms Uncertain
Washington Post
GREGORY FERENSTEIN
Thursday, August 15th, 2013

According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, the National Security Agency broke its own privacy rules thousands of times per year. Many of the violations seem like unintentional infractions, such as a typo while searching telephone area codes, which results in a swath of phone records that shouldn’t have otherwise been scanned. It is unclear whether any of the wrongly obtained information was used for illegal or illicit purposes.
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NSA leaker more a showing about defense contractors lousy security

This man was hired by a contractor. Didn't the contractor think to have him sign an agreement about talking about the government's secrets? How was this such a huge deal when reports about this came out during the Bush Administration?

Bush says he signed NSA wiretap order
Adds he OK'd program more than 30 times, will continue to do so
Saturday, December 17, 2005

President Bush arrives for his radio address in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In acknowledging the message was true, President Bush took aim at the messenger Saturday, saying that a newspaper jeopardized national security by revealing that he authorized wiretaps on U.S. citizens after September 11.

After The New York Times reported, and CNN confirmed, a claim that Bush gave the National Security Agency license to eavesdrop on Americans communicating with people overseas, the president said that his actions were permissible, but that leaking the revelation to the media was illegal read more here

Naturally the media jumped all over this story and once again avoids reporting on things that can make this country better. But, hey, they'd have to actually work for a change. Ok, not all of them. Some of them do actually work hard but most of them are just doing the bungie jump. Would have been more interesting if they actually attempted to figure out how many other defense contractors have such lousy security this could be pulled off?

White House defends surveillance as world digests leaker's motives
By Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen
CNN
June 10, 2013

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: President open to surveillance changes if public debate leads to consensus, spokesman says
Group begins legal defense fund for self-avowed leaker, Edward Snowden
Snowden outs himself in newspaper article, saying he acted in defense of freedom and privacy
But Rep. Peter King calls him dangerous and "a defector"

Hong Kong (CNN) -- A day after former intelligence worker Edward Snowden outed himself as the man responsible for leaking details of U.S. surveillance programs, White House spokesman Jay Carney defended the administration's stance on the initiatives, calling them a necessary middle way between total privacy and unacceptable threat.

He said President Barack Obama would be willing to consider changes should a national debate show the public wants them. But, he wryly noted, "This is not the manner by which he hoped to have the debate."

Meanwhile, the world continued to digest what Snowden had to say in a Guardian newspaper interview published Sunday about the reasons for leaking the classified information.
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