tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post3031616056628043817..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: Cue next hysteria eruption (updated)Nancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-26679020622781090352013-06-07T10:47:37.058-05:002013-06-07T10:47:37.058-05:00The current "media" is a misnomer...ther...The current "media" is a misnomer...there are very few if any real investigative journalists attached to the msm. The msm is simply a mouthpiece for their corporate owners. They didn't "miss" anything...they are simply following directions. Misdirection and disinformation campaigns are all the msm knows how to do any more. <br /><br />It's certainly not a place to find facts.donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415671160713121008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-70191516872754667342013-06-06T20:01:40.588-05:002013-06-06T20:01:40.588-05:00...and media misses the obvious...casting aspersio......and media misses the obvious...casting aspersions at those doing legal things legally when it's the law that they have a problem with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-60286149489672261822013-06-06T18:14:21.190-05:002013-06-06T18:14:21.190-05:00hello Suzanne...you are echoing my thoughtshello Suzanne...you are echoing my thoughtsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495861806403242783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-39875041776451706432013-06-06T15:02:56.034-05:002013-06-06T15:02:56.034-05:00They've been doing this for over seven years a...They've been doing this for over seven years and Congress as recently as last year reauthorized it for another 5 years. Two Senators that head the Intelligence Committee said this isn't new. <br /><br />Sounds like the media got played again. woody45http://oldhollywood.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-83946241570560455752013-06-06T14:42:53.467-05:002013-06-06T14:42:53.467-05:00In 2003 I got a phone call from someone posing as ...In 2003 I got a phone call from someone posing as a reporter (I checked. NOT true.) Said person knew the entire content of an entirely private email conversation among my Board members concerning FBI over-reach in demanding the contents of Muslim sermons. This person demanded of ME that I give over the names and addresses of all Board members. I refused. Given the timing I seriously doubt that even had the discussion been the least threatening which it was not, there was no time for a warrant. <br /><br />Having records without names, content, etc. - metadata - is not at all the same thing, and having them WITH a warrant is how our system works. Thank you for telling us all that this is not about our personal communications but is about business records, and thank you more for reminding us that those records - freely obtained by a for-profit business each time a call is made - are not the issue of what is 'private'. Not going after our content, identities, etc., means this administration has already, hands down, not tried to screw any of us as the previous one already tried to do in 2003 to me and my organization. I am happy with the difference.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-45344928287075641732013-06-06T12:33:32.850-05:002013-06-06T12:33:32.850-05:00The other thing I find very odd is how many of the...The other thing I find very odd is how many of these supposed scandals are being "leaked" at the same time. Who leaked to Rosen and Greenwald? All of the "Scandals" seem to have been known about for quite some time and often by GOP in congress.Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12130159732026998535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-32430651483569156182013-06-06T12:28:29.050-05:002013-06-06T12:28:29.050-05:00Think Progress has a factual timeline of info but ...Think Progress has a factual timeline of info but does not address the distinction that this is the Verizon Business Network. I will tweet them your article. <br /><br />They note Sen. Feinstein saying this program has been going on for 7 years.<br /><br />http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/06/06/2111741/what-you-should-know-about-the-governments-massive-domestic-surveillance-program/<br /><br />"During a press conference, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that the order the Guardian obtained is “the exact three-month renewal” of program underway for the past seven years. “It’s called protecting America,” she said. Asked if other phone companies are giving similar data to NSA, the senators said, “We can’t answer that.”<br /><br />Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12130159732026998535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-54335515520892390192013-06-06T11:31:48.656-05:002013-06-06T11:31:48.656-05:00Turned on the TV briefly this morning to see all t...Turned on the TV briefly this morning to see all the networks having major meltdowns over this. All I could think was, "This is news"?<br /><br />We've known for years that the NSA has been vacuuming up this kind of communications metadata. We've grown kind of used to it (arguments about whether we should or not are completely valid). But the way this was being covered in the few minutes I attended to it made it sound like this was THE MOST SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE.<br /><br />I think the media has gotten into a mode where they desperately want there to be some negative story of this sort about the Obama administration and are therefore going to leap on the least hint of it as if it were evidence that Obama was a secret puppet-master who has visions of becoming the next Hugo Chavez or something.Chris Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18139817527808942227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-86869088465117647152013-06-06T09:41:17.051-05:002013-06-06T09:41:17.051-05:00Thanks, yet again for being a voice of reason. Thanks, yet again for being a voice of reason. J.A. Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15800901321134394272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-79693534823597941212013-06-06T09:22:31.940-05:002013-06-06T09:22:31.940-05:00I saw that. Its speculation that might have some m...I saw that. Its speculation that might have some merit. I thought about including it but decided that it would be best to wait and see how that info plays out. Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-72819391743204102022013-06-06T09:09:28.497-05:002013-06-06T09:09:28.497-05:00Great post, SP. Glenn Greenwald is an ambulance c...Great post, SP. Glenn Greenwald is an ambulance chaser posing under the guise of a journalist.<br /><br />Per Talking Points Memo this morning, a key point of this subpoena is that it came 4 days after the Boston Marathon bombing...<br /><br />http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/06/coincidence.php?ref=fpblgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com