NSA Snoop Program: All about the Neocon Enemies List

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If you believe the Bush and the neocons in the White House and the Pentagon, as Arkin suggests, have not drawn up a comprehensive list of domestic enemies, and are not snooping them right now, I have a chartreuse pony to sell you.

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According to the corporate media and the standard gaggle of neocon pundits, we have nothing to fear now that Hayden has won over the Senate. After all, as the neocons assure us, the CIA and spook operations emanating out of the Pentagon (and the NSA) focus on 'al-Qaeda,' a shadowy group with unestablished and undocumented ties within the United States, and those of us worried about the return of Operation Chaos, Project MERRIMAC, and the FBI's COINTELPRO are simply paranoid tinfoil hatters or worse.

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Of course, since there is zero oversight, there really is no need to make the fraudulent claim these operations will be conducted only if 'related to foreign intelligence.' As the above indicates, the government is primarily interested in snooping and subverting its own citizens, who are more of a threat to their stranglehold on power than any number of phony 'al-Qaeda' groups or other contrived Freddy Kruger scarecrows.

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