15-07-2013, 05:04 PM
A fairly long article.The rest can be read at the link at bottom.
Published on Monday, July 15, 2013 by TomDispatch.com
Surveillance Blowback: The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020
by Alfred W. McCoy
The American surveillance state is now an omnipresent reality, but its deep history is little known and its future little grasped. Edward Snowden's leaked documents reveal that, in a post-9/11 state of war, the National Security Agency (NSA) was able to create a surveillance system that could secretly monitor the private communications of almost every American in the name of fighting foreign terrorists. The technology used is state of the art; the impulse, it turns out, is nothing new. For well over a century, what might be called "surveillance blowback" from America's wars has ensured the creation of an ever more massive and omnipresent internal security and surveillance apparatus. Its future (though not ours) looks bright indeed.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/15
Published on Monday, July 15, 2013 by TomDispatch.com
Surveillance Blowback: The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020
by Alfred W. McCoy
The American surveillance state is now an omnipresent reality, but its deep history is little known and its future little grasped. Edward Snowden's leaked documents reveal that, in a post-9/11 state of war, the National Security Agency (NSA) was able to create a surveillance system that could secretly monitor the private communications of almost every American in the name of fighting foreign terrorists. The technology used is state of the art; the impulse, it turns out, is nothing new. For well over a century, what might be called "surveillance blowback" from America's wars has ensured the creation of an ever more massive and omnipresent internal security and surveillance apparatus. Its future (though not ours) looks bright indeed.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/15
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