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Related: About this forumBig Bro Broken: Lavish surveillance shattered by Boston bombings
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Published on May 2, 2013
Many US government officials are calling for tougher national security measures, in the wake of the deadly Boston bombings. But more than a decade of multi-billion-dollar surveillance, at the expense of civil liberties, has failed to prevent terror at home. Experts say Washington's security strategy has already cost far more than it's worth.
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Big Bro Broken: Lavish surveillance shattered by Boston bombings (Original Post)
marmar
May 2013
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snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)1. I'm willing to bet that many pockets have been lined with the $700Bn
spent on making us safer.
2naSalit
(100,972 posts)2. But perhaps
only a specific select few.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)3. Probably members of the 1%. imho
2naSalit
(100,972 posts)4. Indeed...
That's what i was thinking and what i suspected you meant, perhaps.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)5. I should have just said it outright to begin with, huh? Ha. nt
