To Spy with Obama
Published in El Caribe
(Dominican Republic) on 19 June 2013
by Fernando Casanova (link to original)
(Dominican Republic) on 19 June 2013
by Fernando Casanova (link to original)
Translated from
by Kate Wheeler.
Edited by Bora Mici.
Ever since “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Au Clair de la Lune,”* recordings of the human voice have supported the idea of man's permanence. However, when Bell invented the telephone, he opened Pandora’s box to recording private telephone conversations.
WikiLeaks and the more recent Obama administration's telephone spying scandal show the level of chaos and the lack of credibility within the U.S. government’s administration, especially in areas of extreme sensitivity. Bradley Manning’s acts with WikiLeaks and more recently those of Edward Snowden show that this is not a case of a few specific documents, but rather cases of U.S. defense and intelligence personnel, convinced that they are trying to save humanity against the acts of the U.S. In other words, they are acts of treason against their own country and their employers. They are acts that put many soldiers and intelligence personnel abroad in danger. It is the worst form of treason that a country or an army can encounter. How can it be that a few young employees think they know what is best for their country and act against the confidence placed in them? This is a more serious issue.
Who has ever doubted that the governments of the U.S., Russia, China, Cuba, the Dominican Republic or Haiti listen in illegally to their adversaries or simple citizens that they think are suspicious? To think otherwise is naïve.
There is no need to differentiate between government and a jealous spouse when it comes to spying. They are two entities that need to cheat in order to retain what they have definitely lost: confidence in themselves. President Obama responded to the illegal wiretapping scandal in a manner typical of the Democratic Party.
He stated: "What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls … They are not looking at people’s names, and they’re not looking at content.”
This is almost identical to what Clinton said when it was debated if he had used marijuana: “I experimented with marijuana a time or two … I didn’t inhale.”
Overall the telephone calls are practically worthless; the important things are said to face to face. Their messages are mostly empty, as empty as the discourse of Margarita Cedeño about “values.”
*Translation: By the Light of the Moon
WikiLeaks and the more recent Obama administration's telephone spying scandal show the level of chaos and the lack of credibility within the U.S. government’s administration, especially in areas of extreme sensitivity. Bradley Manning’s acts with WikiLeaks and more recently those of Edward Snowden show that this is not a case of a few specific documents, but rather cases of U.S. defense and intelligence personnel, convinced that they are trying to save humanity against the acts of the U.S. In other words, they are acts of treason against their own country and their employers. They are acts that put many soldiers and intelligence personnel abroad in danger. It is the worst form of treason that a country or an army can encounter. How can it be that a few young employees think they know what is best for their country and act against the confidence placed in them? This is a more serious issue.
Who has ever doubted that the governments of the U.S., Russia, China, Cuba, the Dominican Republic or Haiti listen in illegally to their adversaries or simple citizens that they think are suspicious? To think otherwise is naïve.
There is no need to differentiate between government and a jealous spouse when it comes to spying. They are two entities that need to cheat in order to retain what they have definitely lost: confidence in themselves. President Obama responded to the illegal wiretapping scandal in a manner typical of the Democratic Party.
He stated: "What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls … They are not looking at people’s names, and they’re not looking at content.”
This is almost identical to what Clinton said when it was debated if he had used marijuana: “I experimented with marijuana a time or two … I didn’t inhale.”
Overall the telephone calls are practically worthless; the important things are said to face to face. Their messages are mostly empty, as empty as the discourse of Margarita Cedeño about “values.”
*Translation: By the Light of the Moon
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