...no one mentions the other big hole in what appears to be everyone's excuse for this illegal madness, which is that people got a bit carried away in the days after September 11th of 2001. See, this doesn't work too well with the revelation that the NSA program of illegal spying on Americans was initiated months earlier. It wasn't power they took in the heat of the moment after being shaken by a terrorist attack, nor was it something they did because it was "necessary" in time of war, but something they had started doing almost immediately upon taking office. It makes their entire argument moot; there was no "wartime" to "justify" the violations they were committing in March, not September, of 2001...
This is a dirty little secret that was in fact no secret at all.
People were exposing this virtually from the time Bu$hie seized office.
"Seized office" being another dirty little non-secret of the Bu$h years. There were two stolen presidential elections. The only reason this one didn't get stolen was there were too many pissed people showing up to vote for the republicans to get away with it.
The main$tream continues to act surprised by all of this. But they ignored and ridiculed us then, just as they ignore and ridicule us now. The only difference is larger and larger audiences ignore them because they can't ignore what they've done to the economy and the nation.
Which brings me to something Greenwald said:
... It's just not possible to have a rotting, bloated, deeply corrupt and completely insular political ruling class -- operating behind impenetrable walls of secrecy -- and avoid the devastation that is now becoming so manifest. It's just a matter of basic cause and effect...
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