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kpete

(72,006 posts) Tue May 8, 2012, 02:36 PM May 2012

NSA Whistleblower: Justice Department Covers Up Crimes of Obama, Bush Administrations

NSA Whistleblower: Justice Department Covers Up Crimes of Obama, Bush Administrations
By: Kevin Gosztola Tuesday May 8, 2012 11:41 am

In a recent segment from Current TV‘s show “Viewpoint,” host Eliot Spitzer interviewed three National Security Agency whistleblowers: William Binney, a former technical director; Kirk Wiebe, former senior analyst; and Thomas Drake, a former senior official. Each man talked about what he saw the NSA do when they were employees. Each of these whistleblowers directly explained the threats to civil liberties posed by the lawlessness of the NSA in the past decade.
http://current.com/shows/viewpoint/videos/nsa-whistleblowers-warn-of-secret-spying-programs-that-can-target-anyone/
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The segment closes with this exchange:

SPITZER: You see what’s going on with the Justice Department these days. We’re prosecuting Roger Clemens for steroid use. You guys are made into enemies of the state. Nobody on Wall Street has been held accountable. Do you begin to think something is amiss somewhere?

BINNEY: Absolutely. Absolutely, yes. But the real problem I see is that the DoJ is covering up for all the crimes that this administration and the previous administration has been committing against every one of the public…

…WIEBE: We have a Congress that isn’t ensuring protections under the Fourth Amendment as well. We have a real problem on multiple fronts in government.

more:
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/05/08/nsa-whistleblower-justice-department-covers-up-crimes-of-obama-bush-administrations/

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NSA Whistleblower: Justice Department Covers Up Crimes of Obama, Bush Administrations (Original Post) kpete May 2012 OP

Did he say ProSense May 2012 #1

I believe all the crimes in that list have also happened under Obama's watch whatchamacallit May 2012 #3

K&R'd snot May 2012 #2

Holder had to be real busy doing SOMETHING kenny blankenship May 2012 #4

ProSense

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1. Did he say

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2012, 02:47 PM

May 2012

"NSA Whistleblower: Justice Department Covers Up Crimes of Obama, Bush Administrations"

...what crimes the Obama administration has committed? From the second link:

The reauthorization of the FISA law will mean the continued expansion of lawlessness between the NSA and other institutions or agencies of government. Employees will witness this and conscientiously object, but they can expect President Barack Obama to have Attorney General Eric Holder and the wider Justice Department come after them, as it has been clearly established—

We don’t prosecute people for war crimes.

We don’t prosecute people for authorizing or legalizing torture.

We don’t prosecute people who engage in lawless covert operations.

We don’t prosecute people for warrantless wiretapping.

We don’t prosecute people for engaging in corporate crimes, even ones that collapse the US economy.

We DO prosecute people who blow the whistle on people who have committed any of the above.

So the "crimes" are not prosecuting Bush administration "crimes"?

If that's not it, they should list the "crimes" of the Obama administration. That way the next administration can prosecute those "crimes." I doubt they're going to prosecute based on the above list.