Finally the story is out. Result: A-Rabs (or to use the intelligence community's label, "Mohammed Raghead". No shit! Read the
story.)
Or is the story really out? I'd be surprised if this is not simply the first installment. Give the simps at Fox News some time to justify the targeting to their Islamophobic audience, then land the next punch. It'll be interesting to see who, if anyone, falls into this trap after a year of Greenwald doing the same moves.
Several other interesting things in no particular order:
The story released within the last few days about '9 out of 10' people being spied on being accidental was supposed to be very negative about the NSA, but I'm not so sure. In many people's minds I think it will serve to cloud and confuse the issue about specially targeted people.
For some reason it seemed like we were pretty close to seeing the 'poison pill' over the time that this story was delayed. Cryptome made some serious noise about doing the deed. Did Greenwald almost end up a captive of the state (or dead?)
This (hopefully) first installment hints several times to pressure from the neoconservative corner resulting in their political adversaries being targeted for enhanced surveillance. As a long-time observer, it strikes me that the neocons press strongly and almost always achieve control over internal security here in the good ol' U.S.A. though that role is denied them at the highest levels of our external security apparatus (state dept, military, etc.) Not that they are not used heavily from time to time within these apparatus (esp in the Cheney admin for instance), but they never are handed the reigns. Anyway, I'll look forward to see if that string gets tugged on some more.
That "John Guandolo" fellow is one whacked out motherfucker! If he is representative of even a small fraction of the people working within the state security apparatus, heaven help us!