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I guessed there would be only muted protests and I rightly guessed why
« on: March 15, 2013, 05:08:47 AM »
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U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters.
 
The proposed plan represents a major step by U.S. intelligence agencies to spot and track down terrorist networks and crime syndicates by bringing together financial databanks, criminal records and military intelligence. The plan, which legal experts say is permissible under U.S. law, is nonetheless likely to trigger intense criticism from privacy advocates.
 
Financial institutions that operate in the United States are required by law to file reports of "suspicious customer activity," such as large money transfers or unusually structured bank accounts, to Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
 
The Federal Bureau of Investigation already has full access to the database. However, intelligence agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, currently have to make case-by-case requests for information to FinCEN.
 
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/usa-banks-spying-idINDEE92C0EH20130313

It's pretty much a cliche at this point to ask, "What if Bush had done this?"

As expected. the news is greeted with a resigned shrug where otherwie there would be demands for a GOP president to be impeached.

So it is up and down the thread.

But then, tucked unchallenged in the midst of it all is this relevatory nugget:

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5. Start with Mitten...

then go on to the Koch $.*.(kers and Shelly the ho from Vegas. Then go to Murdoch and Trump.

A mole looking to establish itself or the genuine article?

But why doesn't anyone challenge it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014425493
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Re: I guessed there would be only muted protests and I rightly guessed why
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2013, 06:40:07 AM »
Forty years ago, if there was any hint that the president had a list of people that he wanted to take down (through extra-constitutional means), the Left viewed that as an awful thing.  Nowadays, the enemies list doesn't look all that bad.
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Re: I guessed there would be only muted protests and I rightly guessed why
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2013, 07:13:13 AM »
Oh, 90% of the idiots will think this is fine because:

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5. Start with Mitten...

then go on to the Koch $.*.(kers and Shelly the ho from Vegas. Then go to Murdoch and Trump.

There will be a few strays, but....

.....wait til the (D)Ummies hear the rumor that the Kochs are looking into buying Tribune Co.

 :panic:

Newsbusters:  Koch Brothers respond to rumors
« Last Edit: March 15, 2013, 07:16:04 AM by 98ZJUSMC »
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Re: I guessed there would be only muted protests and I rightly guessed why
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2013, 09:31:11 AM »
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6. We used to not be subject to such government surveillance, and not that long ago.

For God's sake, we didn't have "no-knock" search warrants until 1973 (thanks, Nixon), but anyone who has grown up since then doesn't know anything else. Or SWAT teams. Or the assumption that the federal government knows the contents of all our most private communications. And the contents of our bank accounts.

We're like the proverbial frog in the pot of slowly heating water.

Really? I seem to remember reading about an entire race of people being forced into internment camps by one of your heroes.
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Re: I guessed there would be only muted protests and I rightly guessed why
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2013, 10:54:37 AM »
Scratch a democrat, find a fascist. Now in black.
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Re: I guessed there would be only muted protests and I rightly guessed why
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2013, 11:04:43 AM »
Please make sure all of these posts are saved forever so when we have a Conservative back in and they bellow we can bring them up by screen name and post topic to show their hypocrisy.
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Re: I guessed there would be only muted protests and I rightly guessed why
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2013, 07:05:55 PM »
Quote from: WinOne4TheGipper on March 15, 2013, 06:40:07 AM
Forty years ago, if there was any hint that the president had a list of people that he wanted to take down (through extra-constitutional means), the Left viewed that as an awful thing.  Nowadays, the enemies list doesn't look all that bad.

That was cause back then he was an eeeevil republicon ignorant racist thug and now there is a unicorn skittle shitting caring liberal in office.
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