One US surveillance agency has responded to my freedom of information request for any personal records saying that there is a "thirty page document" but that it cannot be released to by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) until the "originating agency" has reviewed it. The Secret Service claims they have nothing. The FBI does not respond. The CIA does not respond. The NSA responded with these truly Orwellian words: "Your request is denied... Our adversaries are likely to evaluate all public responses to these programs. Were we to provide positive or negative responses to requests such as yours, our adversaries compilation of the information provided would reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security." I note that the list of "adversaries" is classified and cannot be released because it could be a threat to "national security." My response to the NSA is "count me in as an "adversary." I was drafted in 1968, served in the 82d Airborne from 1969 through 1972, got called back in, served as a reserve officer chiefly with the 82d from 1974 to 1991 and spent 15 years as a Superior Court judge in NH before I went to Baghdad in 2007 to work as director of the ill-fated Office of Accountability and Transparency (OAT) which turned out to be window dressing for the corruption in the US State Department and DoD. One helluva lot of US soldiers have died believing that they were fighting for the freedom and justice that the NSA and other tentacles of the US surveillance state are stealing from us. The people of the United States are the "adversaries" you seek to control and heroes like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden are making that plain to see for all of us and for people all over the world.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 15:18:49 +0000
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