Maybe it's because I've held a Top Secret security clearance once...

[timdog44]

23. Thanks for that.

I am a nobody as it comes to espionage and spying. An expert in TV movies on it. But what you say is what I suspected. We are all getting our underpants in a bunch over this nonrevelation. And Greenwald is getting his out of this, too. But this Snowden "kid" is a beginneer and should not have been spilling his guts about that which he did not really know.

Now I agree with cali, and I think you said it too, the Patriot Act has to go, and the size and scope of the espionage community needs to be reduced get those damn mercenary spies out of it. I did not like those sell outs over in Iraq and Afghanistan (and I did not like either of those in the first place) and I certainly don't like them in our surveillance community.

We need to reduce the vast number of agencies, link all their computers, and let them do the job they really should be doing. The right hand does not know what the left is doing or if there is even a left hand to start with.

Personally I think this is another diversion by the right wing to take our eyes off the prize, and even more take the eyes of the dumbed down right wing off what the real prize should be.