But there you have it.
This confirmed liar, who before the revelations by Snowden began to come to light this past summer, had testified before Congressional committees stating, "We don't conduct surveillance of Americans," when in truth we now know Alexander DID lie to Congress (which by the way is a felony) and last night he's still coming up with the same sorry disclaimer, "There is nothing that anyone from the NSA has done that is wrong". Please.
Now there are many questions regarding Alexander as well as National security Director James Clapper but here a few that go directly to the matter:
- Why haven't they been fired?
- Why haven't they been charged with a felony for lying to Congress?
- And why have they been allowed to continue giving testimony to groups such as the Baltimore Council of Foreign Affairs when it's been confirmed they have been lying?
From here there could be a fear within the Obama administration that if one or both men were axed, they could expose Obama and other members of his staff of being in on and authorized all the malfeasance conducted by the NSA and could therefore face impeachment proceedings for what they authorized. That's pure speculation of course but it makes perfect sense.
Look at former Director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover who remained the director long after he should have been let go but was allowed to stay on presumably because he had scandalous information he clandestinely obtained on those in the White House which if revealed could bring a president down.
Here's the rub; when wrong-full, illegal policies and actions are carried out by those who authorized them and not held to account the whole edifice is rotten to the core.
It's why Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, ex President George W. Bush et al were (are) given an unwritten pardon by then new President Barack Obama who offered the lame, "We need to move on and not relive the past", thus exonerating the former administration miscreants from facing prosecution for the crimes they committed.
That's the state of our nation folks and why the flag should be flown upside down as the sign of it being in distress.
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