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2018-05-21 Home Front: Politix

The late Michael Hastings - 'Why Democrats Love to Spy On Americans'

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-21 08:45|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Perhaps we were told, but no one listened. Excerpt from the Hastings article:

The very topic of Democratic two-facedness on civil liberties is one of the most important issues that Greenwald has covered. Many of those Dems — including the sitting President Barack Obama, Senator Carl Levin, and Secretary of State John Kerry — have now become the stewards and enhancers of programs that appear to dwarf any of the spying scandals that broke during the Bush years, the very same scandals they used as wedge issues to win elections in the Congressional elections 2006 and the presidential primary of 2007-2008.

Recall what Senator Levin told CNN in 2005, demanding to "urgently hold an inquiry" into what was supposedly President Bush's domestic wiretap program.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-21 08:59|| 2018-05-21 08:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Why? Because they're power-hungry control freaks, that's why.

Posted by Raj 2018-05-21 09:33|| 2018-05-21 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Nice to have this sort of thing brought to everyone's attention now. Since he died under mysterious circumstances (if I recall something strange about his brakes) it makes it very hard to attack the messenger.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-05-21 10:20|| 2018-05-21 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Talks about the possible cyber-hack in the linked wiki article.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-05-21 10:21|| 2018-05-21 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Republicans are no better in this regard.

Posted by Iblis 2018-05-21 10:25|| 2018-05-21 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 WIKILEAKS’ release of Vault 7 has reignited conspiracy theories about the CIA’s involvement in the death of Michael Hastings, an investigative journalist killed in a car crash in 2013. The trove of secret information, which allegedly comes from the CIA’s Cyber Intelligence Centre, suggests US spies have explored hacking into vehicles remotely to carry out “undetectable assassinations”.

Posted by Eohippus Dribble5682 2018-05-21 13:06|| 2018-05-21 13:06|| Front Page Top

#7 It appears to me that Michael Hastings, Andrew Breitbart, and Seth Rich were all murdered by the Deep State. All of these "departures" were just too convenient to have been natural occurances.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2018-05-21 19:58|| 2018-05-21 19:58|| Front Page Top

#8 It appears to me that Michael Hastings, Andrew Breitbart, and Seth Rich were all murdered by the Deep State. All of these "departures" were just too convenient to have been natural occurances.
Posted by: Lone Ranger

I suspect there may be, or have already been additional "natural occurances."

Posted by Besoeker 2018-05-21 20:33|| 2018-05-21 20:33|| Front Page Top

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