Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA
Documents provided by two House members demonstrate how they are blocked from exercising any oversight over domestic surveillance
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... ied-access
Похоже большинтсву конгресменов приходится получать реальную инфу о NSA так же как и всем нам - на сайте Guardian. То есть Конгресс это что то вроде Верховного Совета в СССР. Декорация.
jayant wrote:
Is this the end of liberal democracy?
It seems the security apparatus and industry have blocked the elected officials from supervising their work, the courts that are meant to control their activities have been rubber stamps, the budgets on intelligence are shrouded in thick opacity, members of elected assemblies are dependent on corporate money for their election and re-election, and the billionaires have set up think tanks that systematically promotes their worldviews. In the US the Congress, a body of elected representatives is less popular than cockroaches.
The question is where are 'the people' of the litany, "of the, by the, and for people"" It seems they have one role: vote periodically to affirm that this is participatory democracy.
Given the amount of money spent on the US presidential election in 2012, it needs a lot of money to persuade people to participate in this game. And this is the model that is being sold to the rest of the world to emulate
joem wrote:
Members of Congress should not discuss documents freely available in the media...
The head of the House Intelligence Committee has already admitted being surprised by the Snowden revelations.
Robust oversight? It is a coup d'état.
irategrandmother wrote:
The bottom line here is that thousands of people working for contractors (like Snowden) have access to information that is denied to members of Congress. And the records they have access to provide no security whatsoever to the American people - in fact they provide the exact opposite - the possibility that the information stored by the NSA will be used against them in some nefarious way. We no longer have a democracy. Obviously Snowden realized that
MonotonousLanguor wrote:
Hard to believe so much power has been vested in the Security Industry that even people in Congress can be ignored and stone walled, when they request information. The tactic is to treat any American who questions the Organs of State Security as a mushroom, that is , "Keep them in the Dark and feed them crap."
ByrdSong wrote:
Clear evidence of a military coup: When members of Congress are denied access to basic information about NSA.
etessieri wrote:
This is another example of how the military in the US, together with the multinational corporations, call the shoots. The only way power will be returned to the legislature and people is after lack or oversight causes major political, social and economic disaster, as it has.
marilyng wrote:
Unbelievable. The US congress is as impotent and powerless as was the senate after the rise of Augustus in Ancient Rome. It is a shell of it's former self, just like the nation itself. Too much power has been ceded to the executive branch, and the courts are a corporate owned executive branch supporter.
America has been hijacked and is now in checkmate
