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LinkSwam for June 8, 2013

Saturday, June 8th, 2013

It’s hard to find time to do an ordinary LinkSwarm with so much Obama scandal news breaking. It’s like ScandalPalooza. And there are some scandal tidbits here as well.

  • Inside the life of Kim Il-Sung’s personal sushi chef.
  • Obama’s arguments for vast NSA powers amounts to “Terrorism is on the run. That’s why we have to tap all your phones and read all your email.”
  • You know what the great weasel word in common for tech giant non-denial denials on the NSA PRISM scandal? “Direct access.” Or “we give them boatloads of indirect access.”
  • The IRS scandal is like Enron: criminality by underlings empowered by a toxic culture at the top by people who think the rules don’t apply to them because they’re smarter than everyone else. “Any good CEO will tell you that ethical meltdowns like the IRS political-targeting scandal are rarely the work of a few rogue employees. Such messes are the result of a toxic culture that has been allowed to fester.”
  • That Gibson guitar raid now makes sense as part of Obama’s weaponizing of the federal government.
  • ObamaCare advocates are just fine with doubling premiums for the poor.
  • Code Pink learns that Michelle Obama may not be criticized any time, ever, for anything.
  • Oh, come on! You can’t even parody this stuff any more. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
  • Fake EPA employee wins real EPA award. (Also from Ace of Spades, which has a lot more EPA malfeasance, including the same sort of conservative targeting the IRS used.)
  • The idea that conservatives oppose Obama just because he’s black is an outrageous, pernicious lie that harms America.
  • Mark Steyn: Why are we spending billions on the NSA when we don’t have the guts to actual screen Muslim immigrants?
  • A former Communications Intelligence officer looks at PRISM.
  • 24 Turks arrest for anti-Erodgan Tweets.
  • Complex regulation i strangling American business.

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    FISA/NSA/PRISM/IRS/Etc. Midday Obama Scandal Roundup for June 7, 2013

    Friday, June 7th, 2013

    The torrent of Obama scandal information is flooding the news is something to behold. In contrast to the tiny drops of Benghazi information the MSM would begrudgingly dole out last year, every day seems to bring a new outrage about how the Obama Administration is trampling on the rights of American citizens. I wish they would put 1/10th the effort of snooping on innocent Americans into tracking and deporting illegal aliens as required by law.

    Some links:

  • How PRISM works, using the NSA’s own slides.
  • How the NSA lies with numbers. “We only issued 1,789 requests for warrentless wiretaps last year…that just happened to cover every phone and data provider in America.” Plus that number was just 21 in 2009.

  • NSA’s Verizon request targeted Americans, not foreigners. “This is [an] indiscriminate dragnet. Say what you will about warrantless wiretapping, at least it was targeted at agents of Al Qaeda. This includes every customer of Verizon Business Services.”
  • “And when we swear up and down, cross our hearts and hope to die, that the NSA does no domestic spying on Americans, what we actually mean is that there’s an awful lot of it.”
  • So why does #NSA’s #PRISM use the Dark Side of the Moon logo? “All that you touch, all that you see…”

    The eye-on-the-pyramid scheme came from the Great Seal of the United States – it’s on the back of the dollar bill – and is still beloved of conspiracy theorists all over the world. It’s meant to be the all-seeing eye of God, but it’s also commonly associated with freemasonry, the occult and a shadowy New World order presided over by the Illuminati. To deploy it in a logo for a creepy-sounding spy agency simply justifies the paranoia of people who think the world is run by lizard-shaped aliens. David Icke’s next podcast will write itself.

  • The IRS political timeline.
  • The New York Times softens its editorial on Obama within hours of publishing it. Bet they never did that for an editorial critical of Bush…
  • The NSA scandal has even hit the sports pages: “LeBron James and his friends should be worried right now, and not just because the government is tracking their phone calls.”
  • The ACLU is shocked, SHOCKED that Obama is reading your email.

    • Hat tips: Ace, Insta, others.

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