Trust? No. Not at all.

Under normal circumstances, I may be inclined to support NSA snooping into certain phone records. But let’s face since the election his Royal @$$holiness and his brain-dead VP the Duke Douchedom, these are not normal circumstances.


First off, what about the whistleblower, Snowden? The trial of wikileaks defendant Bradley Manning is just getting under way. PRIVATE Manning had access to thousands of top secret documents that a reasonable man might ask, “Why does a private have so much access? Who did he work for? Is his immediate supervisor and the supervisor above that been reassigned to the darkest, coldest corner of the world to inventory the snow shoe account until their enlistments run out?”

Why in the world is the new guy left unsupervised with all of that classified material. The military used to require two-man control for sensitive material. Has that rule gone out the window? Now we just trust everyone and anyone with everything? We used to have “a need to know” rule where even if you had the proper clearance, you could not access material without first demonstrating that you had a legitimate reason for the access.

So the NSA gets a new contractor guy in, let’s call him Snowden. Having learned nothing from the Manning case, Snowden is immediately given carte blanch to the agencies deepest secrets. WTF?

There is clearly a vetting problem in some of these programs. But that aside how about a period of close supervision of say 18 months before we leave the kids unattended in the candy store.

Now all of the smartest people on both sides are telling us that we have to have this program – it’ll save lives, like those in Boston. No. Well Ft. Hood then. No. Wait. Somewhere we are saving lives by snooping on EVERY SINGLE American.

That has to be BS. Any good manager knows one of the keys to success is knowing what’s important and what’s not. Apparently the NSA is working under the Michael Scott rules of management where everything is a #1 priority. If everything is a #1 priority, nothing is.

The NSA is collecting so much data where Aunt Betty trading recipes with Sally is collected and stored in the same manner as Akmed discussing flight times with Mustaffa. That can not be the most efficient manner to go about data collection.

Next we know:
The EPA wanted “crucify” the oil companies
The DHS wanted to track returning vets more than radical Islamists
The HHS considers the Catholic Church a bigger threat than AIDS
The DOJ ran guns to Mexican drug cartels in an effort to get more gun control laws at home
The IRS systematically targeted Tea Party and religious groups

And these are just the bone headed things the government is doing that I can recall off the top my head as I sop up spilled coffee before it gets to the keyboard.

And you know what? The fake video guy has done more hard time than anyone involved in any of those scandals. For most in government employees these days, being involved in a scandal is a surer way to promotion than hard work and competence.

Why in the world would any sane person trust THIS government to feed the dog let alone monitor EVERY ASPECT of our lives?

Oh, the site meter hit one yesterday.  So I'd like to apologize to to my new NSA friend.  Keep up the good work.

Posting is difficult due to NSA monitoring my computer and slowing it to a snail's pace.  I may need to take it in for 3rd time in less than a year. If I'm not here, that's why, or I've been thrown in a cell with the Benghazi filmmaker.