Noam Chomsky: The State Fears Its Own People <-- AWESOME 5 MINUTE VIDEO

[ConservativeDemocrat]

7. Sure, I'll do so...

Chomsky:

"First a look at what he exposed ... this is not any threat to security, with one exception, the security of the government from its own population."

FALSE.

About the Fort Hood shooting:

Days after the shooting, reports in the media revealed that a Joint Terrorism Task Force had been aware of e-mail communications between Hasan and the Yemen-based cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who had been monitored by the NSA as a security threat, and that Hasan's colleagues had been aware of his increasing radicalization for several years. The failure to prevent the shootings led the Defense Department and the FBI to commission investigations, and Congress also held hearings.

The problem, in short, isn't the NSA. It's that, due to 4th Amendment concerns, that government is very hesitant in acting, even when there are clear indications a terrorist attack is about to occur.

The things the NSA is tracking with these programs clearly ARE a threat to security.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

/ cue the "Obama is literally Hitler" non-sequitur responses by the hard Naderite leftists who, just as much as the GOP, hate inconvenient truths as much as they love fact-free bashing of President Obama