16-11-2012, 09:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 18-11-2012, 10:59 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
The scandal that brought down CIA Director David Petraeus has spread to the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen. The Pentagon says the FBI has uncovered thousands of "potentially inappropriate" emails between Allen and Jill Kelley, the woman who complained of harassment from Petraeus' biographer and lover, Paula Broadwell. Kelley's complaint to the FBI led to the discovery of Broadwell and Petraeus' relationship, prompting Petraeus' resignation on Friday.
"You are talking about a massively invasive investigation that without any of their knowledge obtained their most intimate communications, all without evidence of any predicate crime," says Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now!, "It really illustrates how invasive and sprawling this unaccountable surveillance state has become. This happens all the time, just generally to people less powerful and influential than the two generals in question here. I hope that we learn lessons, I hope, about what we have allowed the government do in terms of its investigative powers."
"You are talking about a massively invasive investigation that without any of their knowledge obtained their most intimate communications, all without evidence of any predicate crime," says Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now!, "It really illustrates how invasive and sprawling this unaccountable surveillance state has become. This happens all the time, just generally to people less powerful and influential than the two generals in question here. I hope that we learn lessons, I hope, about what we have allowed the government do in terms of its investigative powers."
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass