it is punitively legal. it s the same stuff but it is now within their assertion of what the law is. right. you look under bush and cheney, it was murder inc. around the world. not that obama is worse than bush and cheney. these guys, let s be clear, these guys were running murder inc. around the cloeb and violating americans rights left and right. why this is such an important story, i agree with your point. because obama is who he is, a brilliant man a constitutional law scholar and popular with the liberal base he s selling people on the idea, hey, there s actually a legitimate legal way to do all these things by tweaking the bush/cheney machine a little bit. i think he has convinced many liberals that s what he s doing. this story is this tip of the iceberg. i think a lot more revelations are coming out in the coming weeks about this nsa story. that s all i ll say about it. i think there s a lot more we will be reading in the coming weeks on this. we have this pervasive
partnered with the ugandan military and another. but they have a base at moggidy shoe. they line them up every month and pay them $200 in cash and it s being run i saw it when i landed. looked like a forward operating base and i started asking around and got forces to confirm that s what it was. two huge stories. yesterday and today, one about nsa getting all the phone records for three months from verizon. today about the nsa s prism program, the servers of nine different internet companies including google. here s my question to you. my feeling about the obama administration and the bush administration and the difference is much of the same policies have been continued. what the bush administration saw as the war giving them an exception around the rule of law the obama administration has pushed out and expanded the legal architecture or interpretation of law so all of
it s being run i saw it when i landed. looked like a forward operating base and i started asking around and got forces to confirm that s what it was. two huge stories. yesterday and today, one about nsa getting all the phone records for three months from verizon. today about the nsa s prism program, the servers of nine different internet companies including google. here s my question to you. my feeling about the obama administration and the bush administration and the difference is much of the same policies have been continued. what the bush administration saw as the war giving them an exception around the rule of law the obama administration has pushed out and expanded the legal architecture or interpretation of law so all of it is punitively legal. it s the same stuff but it is now within their assertion of what the law is. right. you look under bush and cheney, it was murder inc. around the world. not that obama is worse than bush and cheney.
you might be a foreigner. what does that mean? how does one prove that? when you compare that with the drone strikes and signature strikes we have gotten out of the business who we re actually fighting anymore. a lot of this is this unanimous big brother state. a lot of people say you re exaggerating. every time we see these stories critics are proven right. glenn greenwald has been talking about this through the bush and obama administrations. a lot of his reports have been vindicated, not just war on terror under obama but spying on its own citizens. the film is called dirty wars. if it comes to a city near you, see it. whatever you think about the president or war on terror, you have to see it. that is all for this evening. the rachel maddow show is next. good evening. did you spend any time reading or sending any e-mail today?
towards the end of the bush administration about the warrantless surveillance aspects of its intelligence collection programs that all of the spread indications by which the government can collect surveillance on american citizen s has gotten so enormously broad common sense restrictions embodied in these laws do not appear to jive with the actions we have seen. this brings me to this question. this is a line from the washington post a story i want to know. firsthand experience in these systems and horror at their capabilities is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide power point slides about prison to the washington post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. i they quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type, the officer said.