VIDEO: [BREAKING NEWS] White House releases report on limiting NSA program

[Constitutional Paulicy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylDMHEeaKhY


A review board established by the White House to investigate the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance operations - including potential abuses - made more than 40 recommendations in a 308-page report released by the White House on Wednesday afternoon. President Barack Obama ordered an independent committee to convene and consider the NSA's activities in the wake of an international surveillance scandal started in June by former government contractor Edward Snowden's unauthorized disclosure of top-secret national security documents. In other NSA-related news, Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke the Snowden leaks, testified today in front of a European Union committee looking into NSA surveillance on EU citizens. RT's Sam Sacks takes a look at the review panel's specific recommendations, including calling for the NSA to stop undermining encryption standards, as well as what Greenwald had to say in his testimony.

Entire recording of the review panel.....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGYkbBcyL90&feature=youtube_gdata

[belian78]

LoL.. Yeah, ok.

[Constitutional Paulicy]

LoL.. Yeah, ok.

Dog and pony show. :rolleyes:

[coastie]

LoL.. Yeah, ok.


Well, I feel better now.

[Lucille]

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2013/09/when-state-floods-zone-reform-is-dead.html


In fact, and it gives me no pleasure to say this, but it's better to face the truth as fully as we can, if the NSA ceased to exist today, it would not make any appreciable difference in the surveillance activities of the United States government.

[...] But the heightened focus on the NSA, while ignoring all the other agencies and programs involved in similar and even identical activities, leads directly to the "solution" that will make the State writhe in ecstasy. Congress will have some hearings, and they will provide for some "oversight" and "accountability," and most people, including most of the State's critics, will herald the great triumph of "the people" and "democracy." Meanwhile, the State will continue doing exactly what it was doing before.

There is a further, related reason why the "reformist" agenda focused only on one part of a far larger problem is doomed to failure, and why such a reformist agenda represents exactly what the State hopes will happen. Here we come to the phenomenon that I now refer to as the State "flooding the zone." When the State floods the zone, as it has with regard to surveillance (and in many other areas), incremental reformism is rendered almost entirely meaningless.