So the new Greenwald story is out, and it involves spying on prominent Muslim-Americans, apparently for no other reason than that they’re Muslims. One of them even worked for the Bush administration and held a security clearance:
But a three-month investigation by The Intercept—including interviews with more than a dozen current and former federal law enforcement officials involved in the FISA process—reveals that in practice, the system for authorizing NSA surveillance affords the government wide latitude in spying on U.S. citizens.
The five Americans whose email accounts were monitored by the NSA and FBI have all led highly public, outwardly exemplary lives. All five vehemently deny any involvement in terrorism or espionage, and none advocates violent jihad or is known to have been implicated in any crime, despite years of intense scrutiny by the government and the press. Some have even climbed the ranks of the U.S. national security and foreign policy establishments.
“I just don’t know why,” says Gill, whose AOL and Yahoo! email accounts were monitored while he was a Republican candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates. “I’ve done everything in my life to be patriotic. I served in the Navy, served in the government, was active in my community—I’ve done everything that a good citizen, in my opinion, should do.”
Once again Snowden’s revelations make the propaganda coming from Clinton and the rest of the fascist warmongers look like the lies that they are. Obama has allowed this to continue for more then 6 years now. And both Democrats and Republicans like Carl Levin, Diane Feinstein and John McCain have funded these abuses.