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nationalize the fed

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56. Rove

Sat Jun 7, 2014, 01:37 AM

Jun 2014

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"That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
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Edward Snowden Questions Failure to Prevent 9/11 Terrorist Attacks [View all] DeSwiss Jun 2014 OP

As should we all. nt alsame Jun 2014 #1

We all questioned the "Pearl Harbor like event" that the PNAC Cleita Jun 2014 #2

Pres. Bill Clinton's response to the letter was an truedelphi Jun 2014 #9

It's time, "we the people" took those big boys down. Cleita Jun 2014 #14

Clinton started the first PNAC war nationalize the fed Jun 2014 #54

my biggest hope is that something he has yet to release finally shines the light of truth on this tk2kewl Jun 2014 #3

Your hope, my hope..... DeSwiss Jun 2014 #16

i hope if/when glen releases the big names he alluded to elehhhhna Jun 2014 #45

It is a racket BeyondGeography Jun 2014 #4

There are two victims: First, the American people whose privacy has been invaded. JDPriestly Jun 2014 #15

We didn't need Snowden to tell us the NSA is a giant waste, but I'm glad he did anyway BeyondGeography Jun 2014 #21

You and I are the victims of the NSA surveillance. JDPriestly Jun 2014 #32

I believe he did name victims. He named President Obama and members of Congress were being spied on sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #46

Our best defense is not spying or collecting information JayhawkSD Jun 2014 #5

maybe this will bring the BOG back to the correct side of this whole Doctor_J Jun 2014 #6

The correct side? mimi85 Jun 2014 #23

no one should tolerate abuse of power Skittles Jun 2014 #53

I have no idea what you mean. mimi85 Jun 2014 #64

I believe it when I see it. n/t Aerows Jun 2014 #40

your quote sounds like Vito corleone's credo Doctor_J Jun 2014 #7

Yes yes and yes. BIG K&R nt riderinthestorm Jun 2014 #8

Wasn't AT&T routing all internet traffic to a room in SF *before* the attacks? arcane1 Jun 2014 #10

Earlier I think.... DeSwiss Jun 2014 #12

I got that beat... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #33

Before THAT, there was a book written by the brother of OK governor grasswire Jun 2014 #57

I swear,...if we start hearing about alien attacks I'm gonna watch the Russo thing again. Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #58

Yes Aerows Jun 2014 #41

310,000,000 iandhr Jun 2014 #11

Redacted. johnnyreb Jun 2014 #13

And they mean every word of that too! DeSwiss Jun 2014 #18

Governing a large country is like cooking a small fish. pocoloco Jun 2014 #30

When this same story was posted here before, it was hidden because of the source. rhett o rick Jun 2014 #17

Which is why I searched for alternative sources..... DeSwiss Jun 2014 #20

Some are naive, just trying to keep DU pure and others are using the lock&hide features to rhett o rick Jun 2014 #37

I simply don't take the time to memorize which sources are DU approved and which are not riderinthestorm Jun 2014 #28

Some of the lock&hiders have good intentions but dont understand the idea of letting liberals rhett o rick Jun 2014 #35

There is a concerted effort to stop people from learning the truth. One of the tactics used on sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #47

I think they are getting desperate. They see that their ideal is crumbling and yet they rhett o rick Jun 2014 #50

That's the feeling I get also. The attacks are more intense, more angry, less subtle. sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #51

I guessed that the post would be hidden nationalize the fed Jun 2014 #55

#Fail. Chucky-Doll Jun 2014 #19

Post removed Post removed Jun 2014 #22

And now, millions more are going to the internet to find & read it. What you don't sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #48

You are totally misrepresenting what Snowden is saying. rhett o rick Jun 2014 #60

You start with a biased thesis: that people who disagree with you are 'diverting'. randome Jun 2014 #61

You have no idea what he stole. You have no idea how much of an expert he really rhett o rick Jun 2014 #62

All I know is that I don't trust him. randome Jun 2014 #65

Why have you been so quick to demonize his while believing the NSA? nm rhett o rick Jun 2014 #67

"costing us our safety, but our rights and our way of life?"---Why, one mght almost conclude that WinkyDink Jun 2014 #24

You'd actually have to have..... DeSwiss Jun 2014 #27

I'll just wrap my Duck Dynasty flag bandana around my head! WinkyDink Jun 2014 #59

Naw... Obama will let his own but be impeached for getting a souldier out before he does anything grahamhgreen Jun 2014 #25

That may have been the deal from the jump. DeSwiss Jun 2014 #29

The power to remove (healthy) food (drinkable) water and (clean) air, the basics of health and life, DhhD Jun 2014 #42

'We are an empire now .... " sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #49

Rove nationalize the fed Jun 2014 #56

Thank you. That is one very sick individual. We will study what they did as we study other sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #68

Never saw that. Thank you. grahamhgreen Jun 2014 #69

How would they have done that? jmowreader Jun 2014 #26

The Republicans actually believed their own crap at the time that all that talk about "terrorism"... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #34

Thank You For Sharing cantbeserious Jun 2014 #31

I have from the beginning. I've done A FUCK load of research... AAO Jun 2014 #36

Good to see him come to a position most of us have held for a long time. nt. NCTraveler Jun 2014 #38

We all know why the NSA, CIA, FBI and everyone else nyabingi Jun 2014 #39

Completely agree! FiveGoodMen Jun 2014 #43

K&R emsimon33 Jun 2014 #44

Bad headline. Snowden actually EXPLAINED the failure, succinctly. greyl Jun 2014 #52

That's rich considering treestar Jun 2014 #63

I question the failure of a background check on hiring Snowden into the NSA in any form Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #66

kick woo me with science Jun 2014 #70