Clearing up misconceptions regarding Anwar al-Awlaki

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87. Does Uncle Sam Have a God Complex?

Norman Solomon
Posted: 07/15/2014 4

SNIP...

Testifying to a committee of the German parliament in Berlin two weeks ago, Binney -- whose 30 years at the NSA included work as a high-level intelligence official -- said that the NSA has a "totalitarian mentality."

Days later, speaking at a conference in London, Binney explained: "At least 80 percent of fiber-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80 percent of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores."

Since last summer, a backup source of strength for the voices of Binney, Thomas Drake, Kirk Wiebe and other NSA whistleblowers -- the fact that Snowden has provided the public with NSA documents -- is exactly what has enraged U.S. officials who want to maintain and escalate their surveillance power. Because of those unveiled documents, clarity about what the NSA is really doing has fueled opposition.

NSA surveillance proliferates in a context that goes well beyond spying. The same mentality that claims the right to cross all borders for surveillance -- using the latest technologies to snoop on the most intimate communications and private actions of people across the globe -- is also insisting on the prerogative to cross borders with the latest technologies to kill.

When a drone or cruise missile implements an assumed right to snuff out a life, without a semblance of due process, the presidential emulation of divine intervention is implicit.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-solomon/does-uncle-sam-have-a-god_b_5586881.html

Guy may be under a lot of pressure, but it's amazing to see the Buy Partisan support for war in DC among those in his -- OUR -- own Party.

People forget Vietnam. And the Cold War. And who armed Iraq. And why no Bankster or Warmonger or Traitor who LIED AMERICAN INTO WAR ON IRAQ has been brought to justice. Just sayin'.