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Trump Flip-Flops, Now Backs the Permanent Spying Powers of Big Brother
Despite his opposition to surveillance during the campaign, Trump has flip-flopped once
again and now supports the surveillance state.
His Homeland Security advisor, Tom Bossert, who worked with the Bush administration, penned
an editorial for The New York Times this week calling for a reauthorization of Section 702
of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Section 702 allows for vacuuming up emails, instant messages, Facebook messages, web browsing
history, and more in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment.
�Cabinet officials and security professionals from different agencies will testify on this
matter on Wednesday,� writes Bossert.
�President Trump stands with them 100 percent on the need for permanent reauthorization
of Section 702.
Officials from the past two administrations also agree that we cannot have a blind spot
in our defenses simply because a foreign terrorist on foreign land chooses an American email
provider.�
Former NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers
have repeatedly claimed NSA snooping has thwarted 54 terrorist attacks.
This claim has been completely debunked.
Like the baseless and politically motivated claim Russia hacked the election, the 54 terrorists
claim is little more than fiction.
It�s propaganda to justify a surveillance state.
Jenna McLaughlin writes �the reason there haven�t been any large-scale terror attacks
by ISIS in the US is not because they were averted by the intelligence community, but
because � with the possible exception of one that was foiled by local police � none
were actually planned.�
The NSA and the government insist they only conduct surveillance overseas but this was
dispelled after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties
Union showed the NSA intentionally violated the law and spied on American citizens.
The surveillance state was created not to protect Americans from terrorists.
It was created to spy on political targets in the United States.
Evidence of this arose in 2014.
�Inside NSA there are a set of people who are � and we got this from another NSA whistleblower
who witnessed some of this � they�re inside there, they are targeting and looking at all
the members of the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Congress, both House and
Senate, as well as the White House,� NSA whistleblower William Binney said in March.
Binney said nothing will change �until we put people in jail, because they have violated
laws and the Constitution, as well as the Constitution and laws in Europe and around
the world.
Until we start putting people in jail to make sure they don�t do this again, and start
cleaning up what is going on, I don�t see this changing.�
Trump and his advisers will make sure nothing changes and the surveillance state continues
to grow until it becomes the sort of totalitarian leviathan portrayed in George Orwell�s dystopian
novel Nineteen-Eighty Four.
Finally, is the move to make Section 702 permanent supported by Trump loyalists and the alt-right?
Thus far, they have supported everything Trump has done, including killing people in Syria
and Iraq. Trump�s pathological lies made during the election do not seem to bother
them in the least.
Besides, the alt-right is too busy attacking the left and vice versa in a never-ending
ideological running battle that serves as a huge distraction.
That�s why I call Trump Republicans and the alt-right neo-neocons.
They are continuing the forever war and police and surveillance state agenda of the Bush
neocons.
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