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发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: USANews
标 题: 荣跑：What the FBI/FISA Memo Really Tells Us About Our Government
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 5 21:17:28 2018, 美东)
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2018/february/05/what-the-fbifisa-memo-really-tells-us-about-our-government/
First, the memo demonstrates that there is a “deep state” that does not
want things like elections to threaten its existence. Candidate Trump’s
repeated promises to get along with Russia and to re-assess NATO so many
years after the end of the Cold War were threatening to a Washington that
depends on creating enemies to sustain the fear needed to justify a trillion
dollar yearly military budget.
Imagine if candidate Trump had kept his campaign promises when he became
President. Without the “Russia threat” and without the “China threat”
and without the need to dump billions into NATO, we might actually have
reaped a “peace dividend” more than a quarter century after the end of the
Cold War. That would have starved the war-promoting military-industrial
complex and its network of pro-war “think tanks” that populate the
Washington Beltway area.
Second, the memo shows us that neither Republicans nor Democrats really care
that much about surveillance abuse when average Americans are the victims.
It is clear that the FISA abuse detailed in the memo was well known to
Republicans like House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes before
the memo was actually released. It was likely also well known by Democrats
in the House. But both parties suppressed this evidence of FBI abuse of the
FISA process until after the FISA Amendments Act could be re-authorized.
They didn’t want Americans to know how corrupt the surveillance system
really is and how the US has become far too much like East Germany. That
might cause more Americans to call up their Representatives and demand that
the FISA mass surveillance amendment be allowed to sunset.
Ironically, Chairman Nunes was the biggest cheerleader for the extension of
the FISA Amendments even as he knew how terribly the FISA process had been
abused!
Finally, hawks on both sides of the aisle in Congress used “Russia-gate”
as an excuse to build animosity toward Russia among average Americans. They
knew from the classified information that there was no basis for their
claims that the Trump Administration was put into office with Moscow’s
assistance, but they played along because it served their real goal of
keeping the US on war footing and keeping the gravy train rolling.
But don’t worry: the neocons in both parties will soon find another excuse
to keep us terrified and ready to flush away a trillion dollars a year on
military spending and continue our arguments and new “Cold War” with
Russia.
In the meantime, be skeptical of both parties. With few exceptions they are
not protecting liberty but promoting its opposite. |
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