This week’s high-profile attack in Paris, France has US government agencies salivating at the opportunity to capitalize on this new round of fear to secure major additional funding.
The NSA is making this press most directly, with Director Admiral Michael Rogers saying that the attack in France “makes life a lot harder” for the NSA, and necessitates more surveillance of potential “lone wolves.”
Which is going to require a lot more money and power, which Congress will almost certainly give them, which suggests life for the NSA actually got a lot easier, they just don’t want to admit it.
House Republicans aren’t even waiting for the Department of Homeland Security to play this game, and have already unveiled a $40 billion spending bill just for them, saying it is critical to keep the nation safe. With panic around what happened in France looming large, expect Congress to give everyone all they want, and then some.
Adm Dennis Blair in 2011 to Leslie Stahl at the Aspen Institute
…there is a Faustian bargain between elected politicians…and the intelligence community… …all based on the idea that the intelligence can be good enough everyday, on every possible threat to the world…and this is not the way it works. …this justification that says…unless you can tell us every single terrorist in every single place as well as exactly what China's going to do for the next 30 years… it's been an intelligence failure. Then we on the intelligence side say well if you wanna know all of that stuff—–it's gonna cost you…
So there's a scam that places expectations somewhere near omniscience such that failure of this imaginary omniscience means the machine isn't expensive enough yet. He even called it "Win-win"! meaning, additionally, that politicians also get to shift blame onto a supposedly broken or underfunded intel–I'd suppose so that they can claim to have fixed something.
"House Republicans aren’t even waiting for the Department of Homeland Security to play this game…"
It will be interesting to follow the money they give to these agencies. How much will actually be used for "national security" and how much will go to the donors in the home districts? How much money does it take to "protect" Kanawha, Iowa?
Someone needs to impress upon the Representatives that the money bag is not bottomless. They keep bringing up the canard of leaving our children (and children's children) with trillion dollar deficits to pay down but they, in the following seconds, turn around and borrow 500 billion from uncle Mao.
The French Foreign Legion should have been disbanded a couple of hundred years ago, for by such brutal imperialism has France plundered trillions throughout Africa and the Middle-East.
A fact well known by our Empire builders, as they likewise do so love to plunder.
And a fact well known by the high achiever upper half, the class in both France and USA, as they are the voting majority, the organized will of society and have the last word on how best to enslave the lower half.
The NSA is making this press most directly, with Director Admiral Michael Rogers saying that the attack in France “makes life a lot harder” for the NSA, and necessitates more surveillance of potential “lone wolves.”
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If surveillance of potential “lone wolves" is what they are doing that might be one thing, but surveillance of EVERY AMERICAN in violation of the 4th amendment is quite another. These guys are totally full of S–t!
It's a game alright. It's become more important to complain about what it costs than complaining about pure aggression in the ME. So American people, if you're going to do it it's going to be expensive. Get used to the idea.
Bingo! Just the night after the shootings,the police chief shoots himself in the head….and claimed to be suicide.
source of this info?
All they need a false flag operation like the one in Paris and they'll have 5 times what they want.
These acts have nothing to do with islam, as theses people social political name and acts reviles, they're here and there to terrorize people. They have no clue nor have any understanding of democracy or other social political philosophy but their own fascism style presenting islam.
They are after revenge because they are losing the regional people support and their war against people. Bush regime last option was to adopt Wahhabi and all other Sunni extremism in Afghanistan and later in Iraq calling his political move " the enemy of my enemy is my friend", ISIS using theses ego junkies all over Europe and elsewhere for the European governments to start negotiating with ISIS. They simply using these young egos with ideialogical understanding from streets in ghettos to accept the neo Islamic fascism as when USG and Europe removed Saddam Hussein, than in Libya and wanting to remove Syrian government for israel to rule the Arab world and for Angelo Saxon oil companies to steal the people's wealth. ISIS is no longer a terrorists group, is a army feed by saudis religious fundementalist/neo islamic fascism whom their growth is because of western manipulated and fake democracy practiced by the west protecting their interests where saudis dictatorial and israel apartheid regime are beneficial.
“But it is clear they drew their inspirations from different jihadist factions”
No, for it is clear as day that they drew their inspirations from the same brutal imperialism and wars of aggression that France and all the other NATO nations use to plunder and enslave the Middle-East.