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[MrScorpio]

117. You know, I'm not faulting him for his efforts to expose how the government is wrong here

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Of course, the government is wrong. Everyone knows this. But, what is he telling us that we don't already know?

Greenwald here is much like a doctor who focuses 90% of his time on the symptoms of a disease and ignores both its causes and it vectors.

Now while everyone, those who belong to his quite considerable fan club, are sitting around and congratulating themselves on his latest rhetorical takedown of the political establishment, I'm still waiting him to explain how this thing got out of hand.

You know? How something like THIS happened:



Because IF the Corporate/Congressional/Surveillance/Industrial Complex isn't replaced with some system where the government can have complete internal oversight of it (you know, like with DEMOCRACY?), rather than allowing private enterprise to promote its own growth as was done with the Pentagon, how the hell are we to reverse the expansion of this process?

How will it be controlled? How to take the profit and influence OUT of the expansion of this process? How to take out the corporate infrastructure that protects it's own interests and profits that it gains from its relationship with the government?

Because THAT'S the REAL story.

Booz Allen is a major corporate sponsor of Public TV, much as are the Koch Brothers. We all saw what happened when Public TV tried to do an exposè on the Kochs, right? It was squashed. How much influence do these corporations have over the content of the media? Why aren't the brave souls, like your boy Greenwald, focusing on how these corporations influence and control the process. He's only making these people out to be un-indicted co-conspirators in this process, instead of the ones who are responsible for pulling the strings.

How the HELL does anyone explain the WAY that Congress lost its oversight over the surveillance infrastructure?

There's a lot missing about this story. But instead of focusing on what the extent of the problem actually is, Greenwald wrote a nice personality driven piece on how Congress is fucking up, both sides are to blame, don't mind those corporations behind the curtain blah-blah-blah.

I'm sure that someone is telling this story correctly. I'm also pretty sure that those same people aren't as self-congratulary as Greenwald while they're doing it.

You know, when Greenwald was interviewing Snowden, he had this wonderful opportunity to explain how a company like Booz became a power-player in the government contracting game. How that game had facilitated the growth of the surveillance infrastructure, how it protects itself from efforts by diligent public officials to restrict its growth and maintain oversight, how that such a process also facilitates the policies and laws which makes surveillance intrusion and collection "legal," how that no political party is completely immune to the influence of the relationship that government has with these corporations.

This is NOT politics, we are WAY beyond politics here.

"That is the atomic, and sub-atomic and galactic structure of things today," once said by a famous movie character.

I'm just me, but still waiting for Glenn Greenwald to start meddling with the primal forces of nature.