Glenn Greenwald on Real Time

[jct74]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgG-WoQQ7Io
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgG-WoQQ7Io

[jct74]

a few more interviews from yesterday



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBLnvZF1Yw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxzA8dNmU5o


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9dkNcKpfl8

[purplechoe]

Thanks, Glenn Greenwald is impressing me much more than Glenn Beck ever has... :)

[Travlyr]

a few more interviews from yesterday



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBLnvZF1Yw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxzA8dNmU5o


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9dkNcKpfl8

Good for you Glenn Greenwald. Peter King is such a tool. LOL. Peter King, I don't want the likes of you protecting me. You have to spy on me to protect me? Get a life.

[matt0611]

Maher has his head so far up his ass.

[Travlyr]

Maher has his head so far up his ass.

Spot on Matt! The Bill Maher is a real dumbass.

[ObiRandKenobi]

andy card is such a dipshit

[ctiger2]

Maher is a fucking idiot.

[limequat]

Maher has his head so far up his ass.


Spot on Matt! The Bill Maher is a real dumbass.


Maher is a fucking idiot.


This, this, and this.

I like how he called Snowden "Batshit crazy" and "Fucking nuts" and reminds him of Ron Paul. DIAF Bill Maher.

[Rudeman]

So Peter King says there were no abuses and got called out on it so he redefined it to no abuses of the public. He also said there hasn't been an attack in 12 years, I guess the Boston marathon bombing doesn't count.

[anaconda]

This, this, and this.

I like how he called Snowden "Batshit crazy" and "Fucking nuts" and reminds him of Ron Paul. DIAF Bill Maher.

After which Greenwald made Maher look like a moron. Maher looked increasingly uncomfortable and frustrated to me as the interview progressed. I'm surprised Maher attempted to take even a slightly adversarial position with Glenn. Not a smart move when you're not remotely in the same intellectual league. Maher almost seems transparent in his continual attempts to advocate for the establishment.

[anaconda]

Does Obama ever object to the blatant lies that his handlers make him recite from the podium? How about this quote from his speech...

"It was clear to me in observing our intelligence operations on a regular basis that changes in our technological capabilities were raising new questions about the privacy safe guards currently in place."

Like, what..all of a sudden Barry had a Ph.D in computer science and several Cisco, Microsoft, and Oracle certifications?

[anaconda]

I wish Greenwald and King would have appeared simultaneously.

[anaconda]

Catherine Austin Fitts said in an interview that three defense contractors (Dyncorp, Lockheed Martin, and she didn't mention the third) control and operate the databases and the IT systems for all 21 U.S. government agencies. So I have to laugh when Obama says that everything is gonna be fine cuz someone besides the government is gonna "store" the data.

[milgram]

It's surprising that Maher, who fancies himself a genius, can really be too stupid to understand that collecting everything creates a virtual time machine. I've easily explained this concept to people who barely use a computer.

For deeper analysis of that topic, here's a Brookings research paper from 2011 entitled Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments ("http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2011/12/14%20digital%20storage%20villasenor/1214_digital_storage_villasenor)

Anyway, here are a couple other recent GG appearances, the first of which involves fireworks. UK press seems questionable at best.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY8qSDfvbNo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM00-nNh3SE

[HOLLYWOOD]

a few more interviews from yesterday


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxzA8dNmU5o

Glen Greenwald and the ACLU's Anthony Romero brought up someone VERY IMPORTANT, who has been rubber-stamping the actions of tyranny with POLICE STATE/SURVEILLANCE-SPY STATE/WAR STATE...

Here's the Traitor to the U.S. Constitution, America, and even the world. take a look below at the damage this FISA/FISC judge has done to America/Americans.

John D. Bates
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To be sure, this Court recognizes the somewhat unsettling nature of its conclusion — that there are circumstances in which the Executive’s unilateral decision to kill a U.S. citizen overseas is constitutionally committed to the political branches and judicially unreviewable.

Via Chumpfish (http://chumpfish2.blogspot.com/).
In case you are having trouble connecting the dots. There is increasing legal weight for the President, this one, the next and ever after, having the right to kill anyone—at his or her discretion, without review or approval, US citizen or not—determined to be an enemy of the United States. There is, keep drawing, a wide latitude for the President, this one, the next and ever after to pick what comprises an enemy of the United States out of a hat of his or her choosing


John Deacon Bates (born October 11, 1946), is a United States District Judge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge) for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_C olumbia). He was appointed by President George W. Bush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush) in December 2001, and has adjudicated in several cases directly affecting the office of the President (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_of_the_President_of_the_United_St ates). On June 11, 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts) named Bates to serve as Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Office_of_the_United_States_Courts) , effective July 1, 2013



In November 2013, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_Director_of_National_Intelligence) declassified and released a circa-July 2010 (date classified) FISC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISC) ruling by Judge Bates authorizing the National Security Agency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency) to restart mass collection of internet metadata, including those of U.S. persons.[5] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-5) In this ruling, Judge Bates noted that the NSA had been violating provisions of various laws, but nevertheless decided to allow the government to continue many aspects of the mass surveillance program. Critics of encroaching U.S. security state policies, in a nod to the Bates numbering method used in the legal field, appropriated the "Bates stamp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_stamp)" moniker as a neologism to refer to often uncritical FISC scrutiny of U.S. government conduct when considering FISA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA) applications.[6] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-6)



On March 12, 2012, U.S. District Judge Bates dismissed a Privacy Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974) claim saying that the "JABS [Joint Automated Booking System] was not limited to arrests for a criminal charge".[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-7) However, the Department of Justice twice published Privacy Act Notices in the Federal Register (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Register) stating that the "categories of individuals covered by the [JABS] system" are "alleged criminal offenders who have been detained, arrested, booked, or incarcerated" and no one else.[8] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-8)[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-9)



On December 10, 2010, U.S. District Judge Bates dismissed a challenge to President Barack Obama's targeted killing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing) order against Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki), a dual American and Yemeni citizen with ties to al-Qaeda. Judge Bates ruled that al-Awlaki's father, Nasser al-Awlaki, who filed the suit with assistance by the American Civil Liberties Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Constitutional_Rights), lacked legal standing in the case against the Obama Administration. In the ruling, Judge Bates stopped short of granting the executive branch "unreviewable authority" to order the killing of an American citizen, instead concluding that the case would likely be settled in another forum outside the courtroom.[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-10)



On July 31, 2008, Judge Bates ruled, in a dispute between the Administrative and Legislative branches, that President George W. Bush's advisers, chief of staff Josh Bolten and former legal counsel Harriet Miers, are not immune from congressional subpoenas to testify about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys and turn over all related, non-privileged documents.[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-11)[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-12)



As a District Court Judge, Bates dismissed the GAO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAO)'s effort to learn with whom Vice President Dick Cheney (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney)'s energy task force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_task_force) conferred.[13] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-13)



On July 19, 2007, he dismissed a lawsuit filed by Valerie Plame Wilson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame) and her husband against Vice President Dick Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove), former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Libby) and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_%28politician%29). Plame's lawyers had said from the beginning of the lawsuit that it would be quite difficult to win, since public officials and servants are generally immune from such suits filed in connection with their jobs. Plame's identity as a Central Intelligence Agency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency) field operative was revealed in a syndicated newspaper column in 2003. This revelation coincided with (Plame's husband) Wilson's criticism of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq. Many opponents of the administration question the timing of the leak of Plame's identity, and assign blame of the leak to officials in the administration. Although several administration officials were questioned in an investigation of the leak, no formal charges were brought, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was then found guilty of lying and obstruction of the investigation as a consequence of his lying. President George W. Bush consequently commuted Libby's sentence, preventing him from doing any prison time at all.[citation needed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)]



"Dismissed a lawsuit by outed spy Valerie Plame and her husband against Vice President Dick Cheney and other top Bush administration officials." Judge Bates stated in his ruling that the couple's allegations "pose important questions relating to the propriety of actions undertaken by our highest government officials," but that he had to dismiss their claims for jurisdictional reasons. While saying the Bush administration officials' actions "may have been highly unsavory," Bates nonetheless ruled "there can be no serious dispute" that speaking to the press to rebut Wilson's criticism was "within the scope of defendants' duties as high-level Executive Branch officials." [14] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Bates#cite_note-14) The Wilsons appealed.



"In a December 30, 2002 decision, Judge John Bates of the U.S. District Court ruled that lead plaintiff Representative Dennis Kucinich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich) and 31 other members of the United States House of Representatives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives) have no standing to challenge President Bush’s withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABM_treaty) without congressional approval. He also ruled that the case presents a "political question" not suitable for resolution by the courts."

[enhanced_deficit]

Maher has his head so far up his ass.

True.. and he is an opportunist war monger based on his past record. But to give him credit, Maher does try to have dialog now and then.. but then he exposes his inner neocon in the process.