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| Permalink View Article Stats (4 comments) Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/21/11: The always-expanding bipartisan Surveillance State, by Glen Greenwald Quicklink submitted by GLloyd Rowsey (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| When I wrote earlier this week about Jane Mayer's New Yorker article on the Obama administration's war on whistleblowers, the passage I hailed as 'the single paragraph that best conveys the prime, enduring impact of the Obama presidency' included this observation from Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin: 'We are witnessing the bipartisan normalization and legitimization of a national-surveillance state.' There are three events -- all incredibly from the last 24 hours -- which not only prove how true that is, but vividly highlight how it functions and why it is so odious. |
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Private property
by John Smith on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 5:54:38 PM
So true, Jan.
by GLloyd Rowsey on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 5:12:12 AM
This expansion of a surveillance state right here in the USA
by E. T. SIMON on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 8:04:40 AM
It's worse than a slap in the face, Ms. Simon.
by GLloyd Rowsey on Monday, May 23, 2011 at 9:07:10 AM