August 25, 2025
NSAgate
Timothy Birdnow
Sundance at Conservative Treehouse discusses the two worst scandals in the Biden era and notes that Russiagate is NOT the worst one - it's the use of NSA data to spy on Americans.
Read about it here.
FTTA:
He's right, although we can walk and chew gum at the same time, methinks. We need to pursue both.
And I would point out the very worst that will happen with Russiagate is there may be charges against guys like Comey or Brennan, but the NSA scandal is breathtaking in scope and should bring down far more people who have generally covered their tracks, burrowed in like leeches, whereas Russiagate will wind up simply taking a few bad men.
Anyway read the article.
Sundance at Conservative Treehouse discusses the two worst scandals in the Biden era and notes that Russiagate is NOT the worst one - it's the use of NSA data to spy on Americans.
Read about it here.
FTTA:
What is the bigger threat to our nation?
♦ Russiagate, where the Hillary Clinton campaign manufactured a dirty political story during a presidential election that was supported by Barack Obama and the DOJ/FBI?
OR…
♦ Spygate, where full spectrum political surveillance was conducted on all political opposition using government access to the NSA database that contains the private metadata of every American citizen?
If you are a person of stable and reasonable mindset, you likely identify the second issue as a much bigger threat. Not only is using the NSA database to conduct illegal surveillance a bigger threat; but it is also a threat that remains as current declassified FISA court statements show the NSA database is still being exploited.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, I would argue the first issue, Russiagate, is intentionally being leveraged as a shiny thing to stop people from realizing the second, much more unlawful issue took place.
Focusing on "Russiagate” leads you to a political storyline that is: harder to outline as unlawful, easily obfuscated, downplayed and subsequently dismissed. Focusing on the use of the NSA database to spy on people is simple to understand, completely unlawful and in stunningly unconstitutional when contrast against 4th amendment protections.
♦ Russiagate, where the Hillary Clinton campaign manufactured a dirty political story during a presidential election that was supported by Barack Obama and the DOJ/FBI?
OR…
♦ Spygate, where full spectrum political surveillance was conducted on all political opposition using government access to the NSA database that contains the private metadata of every American citizen?
If you are a person of stable and reasonable mindset, you likely identify the second issue as a much bigger threat. Not only is using the NSA database to conduct illegal surveillance a bigger threat; but it is also a threat that remains as current declassified FISA court statements show the NSA database is still being exploited.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, I would argue the first issue, Russiagate, is intentionally being leveraged as a shiny thing to stop people from realizing the second, much more unlawful issue took place.
Focusing on "Russiagate” leads you to a political storyline that is: harder to outline as unlawful, easily obfuscated, downplayed and subsequently dismissed. Focusing on the use of the NSA database to spy on people is simple to understand, completely unlawful and in stunningly unconstitutional when contrast against 4th amendment protections.
He's right, although we can walk and chew gum at the same time, methinks. We need to pursue both.
And I would point out the very worst that will happen with Russiagate is there may be charges against guys like Comey or Brennan, but the NSA scandal is breathtaking in scope and should bring down far more people who have generally covered their tracks, burrowed in like leeches, whereas Russiagate will wind up simply taking a few bad men.
Anyway read the article.
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