{"id":43512,"date":"2013-06-19T18:47:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/feinstein-on-nsa-nothing-to-see-here-please-move-along\/43512\/"},"modified":"2013-06-19T18:47:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T17:47:23","slug":"feinstein-on-nsa-nothing-to-see-here-please-move-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/feinstein-on-nsa-nothing-to-see-here-please-move-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein On NSA: Nothing to See Here, Please Move Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Obama and Congress continue effort to minimize damage inflicted on American people by Stasi state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kurt Nimmo<\/strong><br \/>Infowars.com<br \/>June 19, 2013<br \/><!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p>California Democrat and Senate fixture <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/06\/nsa-senate-hearing-92942.html?hp=r23\">Dianne Feinstein<\/a> and her comrades in Congress hope the NSA political football gets lost in the shuffle.<\/p>\n<p><small>Feinstein and Rogers explain why the Constitution should take a backseat in the manufactured war on terror.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Feinstein said there are no hearings currently planned on the NSA scandal and nothing will happen until the intelligence community decides \u201cwhat can be said\u201d about the massive and unprecedented violation of the Fourth Amendment by No Such Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Republican Saxby Chambliss said Congress does not plan to discuss the issue with the American people who are routinely kept in the dark on so-called national security issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe so rarely have open hearings,\u201d Chambliss said. \u201cRight now I don\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Rogers, who has served as the main apologist for maintaining a super-secret Stasi state, said on Tuesday he will convene a dog and pony show devoted to how the NSA programs \u201cprotect Americans, and why disclosure aids our adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogers plans to roll out NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce, Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Robert Litt, the general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>A scheduling snafu resulted in Alexander facing Maryland <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/06\/12\/barbara-mikulski-halts-nsa-hearing-to-answer-a-twitter-critic-video\/\">Sen. Barbara Mikulski<\/a>\u2019s Senate Appropriations Committee instead of the Intelligence Committee. Mikulski tried to steer questions posed by fellow senators away from the NSA violations of the Constitution and move the discussion into the neutral area of cyber security. Criticized for the attempt to protect Alexander from answering to the American people, Mikulski took a self-defensive stance on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/politics\/article\/Obama-Lives-have-been-saved-by-NSA-programs-4608874.php\">Obama tried to defend the Stasi state<\/a> and its unwarranted intrusions. \u201cLives have been saved,\u201d he claimed from Berlin, where he met with his counterpart, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Obama said NSA surveillance \u201cis not a situation in which we are rifling through ordinary emails\u201d of huge numbers of citizens in the United States. He said PRISM and other NSA efforts are \u201ccircumscribed, narrow\u201d and do not violate the constitutional rights of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Obama also said the NSA program has the \u201coversight\u201d of the court. He refrained from mentioning that the \u201ccourt\u201d involved is the secret FISA court, itself an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130617\/01375623502\/retired-federal-judge-explains-why-fisa-court-should-not-be-trusted.shtml\">unconstitutional aberration<\/a> created as a response to decades of constitutional abuse by intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel floated the idea that the state has an interest in violating the privacy of citizens in order to prevent terrorism. \u201cThere has to be proportionality,\u201d she said and added that her discussion with Obama on the issue Wednesday was \u201can important first step\u201d in establishing a \u201cbalance,\u201d as the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/today\/index.ssf\/2013\/06\/obama_says_lives_have_been_sav.html\">Associated Press<\/a> described it.<\/p>\n<p>Obama and Congress will continue their effort to minimize the damage inflicted on the American people by the Stasi state. Rep. Rogers insistence that the NSA has prevented terror attacks and saved lives is, of course, ludicrous when the facts are examined.<\/p>\n<p>Infowars.com <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/ny-times-fbi-staged-terror-attacks\/\">has provided conclusive evidence<\/a> that the FBI creates terror attacks, which are in turn exploited by the establishment and its congressional clerks to build a fallacious case for the supposed war on terror and a continued dismantlement of the Bill of Rights, specifically the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>FBI director <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/13\/fbi-mueller-spy-tactics-9-11-boston\">Robert Mueller<\/a> signaled last week that the NSA revelations will not result in a rollback of his agency\u2019s tactics. He called for a continuation of the Stasi state that has turned the Fourth Amendment into a mockery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time we have a leak like this and you follow it up and look at the intel afterwards [you find terrorists] are looking for ways around,\u201d Mueller said. \u201cIf we lose our ability to get their communications we are going to be exceptionally vulnerable\u201d to staged terror attack his agency orchestrates.<\/p>\n<p>      &lt;!&#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n<p> &#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013  at  12:27 pm<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/constitution\/\" rel=\"tag\">constitution<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/domestic-news-2\/\" rel=\"tag\">domestic news<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/domestic-spying\/\" rel=\"tag\">domestic spying<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/police-state-2\/\" rel=\"tag\">police state<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/technology\/\" rel=\"tag\">technology<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/terrorism\/\" rel=\"tag\">terrorism<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\" \/>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/feinstein-on-nsa-nothing-to-see-here-please-move-along\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Feinstein On NSA: Nothing to See Here, Please Move Along\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama and Congress continue effort to minimize damage inflicted on American people by Stasi state. Kurt NimmoInfowars.comJune 19, 2013 California Democrat and Senate fixture Dianne Feinstein and her comrades in Congress hope the NSA political football gets lost in the shuffle. 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