Conservatives,
Thomas Drake, a 30-year
intelligence professional who
was a Senior Executive of NSA
when he was surprised to find
himself prosecuted for Espionage
(treason), after going through
all the "proper channels" to
report the ongoing fraud, waste
and the abuse of US Law, which
he observed at his place of work.
He speaks eloquently about the
explosive growth of the US'
surveillance system in the post-9/11
world, a system, which the dreaded
and infamous "Stasi in East Germany
would have drooled over."
Ironically, the Stasi were the very
group that it was Drake's job to spy
on, as a pilot of an AWACS aircraft,
during the Cold War.
He says that the very things that the
US' current surveillance system is
alleged to be defending, breaks the
very laws which are the true defense
of the United States, namely the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
which he says have now gotten "in
the way" of this monstrous
mechanism, which he believes will
culminate in providing for neither
security nor freedom nor for basic
human rights.
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