‘Bullsh*t!’ Greenwald and Iraq Vet Blow Up on Real Time over Snowden Leaks

[Swede Atlanta]

28. I trust Greenwald more than I trust the secret government.....

I am thrilled we have exposed what the government is doing. I want more and not less transparency. The system is so rigged that our elected officials cannot even discuss this at a policy level with their constituents.

I have said this before and I will say it again. Even if Congress and the President agreed to dismantle the CIA, the NSA and any number of other clandestine organizations and defunded them they would continue to operate as if nothing happened. They are a government unto themselves, not answerable to anyone but themselves. This is how bad things have gotten.

That form of big brother is much, much worse than the threat of any domestic or foreign adversaries including terrorists. It tears at the fabric of our democracy worse than 9-11 or Pearl Harbor. It rips at the very essence of a government that serves at the will of the people and not the other way around.