One of the goals of the US spying programs is to prevent other countries from gaining access to the US governmentâ„¢s Å“militarized nuclear weapon technology,” says Jim W Dean, managing editor and columnist at Veterans Today.
A 2011 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion, declassified on Wednesday, has shown that the US National Security Agency unlawfully collected tens of thousands of Americansâ„¢ emails and other electronic communications.
Citing the recent revelations about the US spying programs, Daniel Ellsberg, who revealed classified Pentagon documents on the Vietnam War, said the US is becoming Å“a police state.”
Dean told Press TV that Americans have been living in a police state Å“for twenty years.” He also told of a Å“hidden scandal” which could explain some of the motives behind the US spying programs.
Å“Many tries of nuclear weapon technology have been around for a good while now,” said Dean.
He explained that the US has very small nuclear weapons and has Å“let the genie out of the bottle” in a lot of Å“these major bombings, quote unquote Ëœterrorist attacksâ„¢ that theyâ„¢ve had.”
Å“One of the things that they fear is that obviously other countries are going to learn how to do this nuclear weapon militarization. These are very easy to sneak in. They are very small, the size of a softball or grapefruit. One of the things theyâ„¢re worried about is having these small weapons being snuck in and basically used as payback for some of the forward military deployment that the US and the West is doing,” Dean said.
Å“This is the hideous story that no one will talk about because the bottom line is the West has already used these weapons, Israel has them, they have actually used them and they figure itâ„¢s a matter of time before someone uses these weapons back on them,” he pointed out.
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Republished from: Press TV