| This column is by Peter Ludlow ("The Stone"), and remarkably it appears in the NYTimes, which has shamelessly conveyed much of the disinformation that has poisoned our polity these 12 years. "The modern American surveillance state is not really the stuff of paranoid fantasies; it has arrived." Government agencies and also private intelligence firms are involved "not just with the concealment of reality, but with the manufacture of it." When corporations hack into your emails for their own profit, this is a legitimate exercise in data collection. But when activists hack into corporate computers and reveal to the public that we are being manipulated, the Obama Justice Dept goes after them with a vengeance. The line between public relations and psychological warfare has disappeared. |
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