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In reply to the discussion: Snowden hate... I don't understand it... ? [View all]Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)George W. Bush and his administration put that data mining program in place after declaring a war upon Iraq which George W. Bush and his cronies already had planned long before George W. Bush was elected (2001).
The attack on the Twin Towers by Islamic terrorists who were led by a Saudi Arabian, with Saudi Arabian money, provided George W. Bush with a really good and easy excuse to declare war upon Iraq (which was NOT where the Islamic terrorists that attacked on 9/11 were from, or where the money financing it was from). I should mention here that the Bush family has been very close to the Saudi royal family, and that they evacuated the Saudi family from the U.S. to get them to safety in Saudi Arabia, after the attack on 9/11. As always, Republicans are evil trash.
In any case, what I'm getting at here is that PRISM was designed and put in place by the George W. Bush administration, not by President Obama. The thing was already underway when Obama took the presidency, at a time when Republicans were still (as they are now) continuing to try to retain control of the U.S., and making it nearly impossible for him to move forward with any of his plans.
As for the NSA's own PRISM data mining program. I have no f----- clue who designed the damned thing, but it's a disastrous waste of money, like turning on the tap and letting it just run without reason or rhyme. Money is poured at breakneck speed into the program that is supposed to spy on terrorists, not innocent people, and instead of using data mining to capture terrorists, the inept NSA and fascist organization is simply data mining EVERYONE. How f----- up is that? Claiming that our country doesn't have enough money to help the ill and poor, but throwing it away on this f------ up system of spying on ordinary citizens! Never mind that they have used the data to attack ordinary innocent citizens!!!! PRISM has the makings of Nazi spy machinery, replete with spying upon all the citizens of our own country, be they grandmas and grandpas, terminally ill people, or what have you, BUT NOT THE TERRORISTS. It's an embarrassment, it's a crime, and I'm GLAD that someone outed it.
However, right wingnuts blame President Obama for PRISM (which he didn't design), and instead of attacking Repukes for this sick, psychotic, demented, fascist machinery, a handful of Democrats attack President Obama as well.
We need to direct our hatred where it's warranted - at the Republicans who wanted, designed, and put this sick machinery in place which does nothing to capture terrorists, but instead terrorizes our nation.