No Escaping Dragnet Nation
This week, as the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein publicly accused the CIA of spying on her committee’s computers, Bill talks with investigative reporter Julia Angwin, author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance.
The book chronicles the indiscriminate tracking of our everyday lives — where government and business are stockpiling data about us at an unprecedented pace. Reporters are a prime target for Internet snooping, says Angwin, “Journalists are the canary in the coal mine. We’re the first ones to seriously feel the impact of total surveillance, which means we can’t protect our sources. But what happens next? What happens next is we’re not good watch dogs for democracy. And that’s a very worrisome situation.”
Angwin and Moyers also discuss our exposure to fraud from online data mining; why mass data collection is not making us safer in the face of terrorism and why European privacy regulations are stronger than those in the US.
Julia Angwin covered the business and technology beat at The Wall Street Journal for 13 years and is a Pulitzer Prize winner now working for the independent news organization ProPublica.
Ah! The ruling elite find they’ve been bitten on the ass! How appropriate! How timely.
They need to take the entire CIA, NSA, HSA, Justice(?) and FBI, Navy Intelligence(?), Army Intelligence(?), Air Force Intelligence(?), Marine Intelligence(?), and blow them all to hell.
After that, they need NOT TO START OVER. Why? Because most of the crime and underhanded crap that goes on in this country is committed by the above Federal and military Agencies.
Too many rats in the box. Too little oversight. Too little “who shall watch the watchers?”.
I’m too fucking old to worry about it – until I have to stand up to some of the bastards, then this old fart will take a few with him..
MA
When they can no longer pay the overpriced salaries of “intelligence” officials, because the Fed has made the dollar worthless, we have an opportunity to right the ship.
Of course, the alternative is that instead of a second American Revolution, we go the route of the French Revolution instead. That didn’t turn out so well.
“They need to take the entire CIA, NSA, HSA, Justice(?) and FBI, Navy Intelligence(?), Army Intelligence(?), Air Force Intelligence(?), Marine Intelligence(?), and blow them all to hell.”
—-Murky aka MuckAbout
If I thought you knew what you were talking about, I’d counsel you about throwing out the baby with the bath water. Since you don’t, you get a pass.
Murky,
You have been judged by the Supreme Spook and you get a pass.LOL. I’m with you, these agencies are just evil.