Dan Rather: NSA ‘is demolishing the trust in the government’

[kpete]

The NSA appeared to be misusing the powers that Congress granted it. But that wasn’t the only problem, Maddow continued.

“If your mom lets you borrow the keys to the car and you take the keys to the car, you start up the car and smash it into a ditch on your first outing, maybe mom will bump you back down to riding a bike for a while, right? You have not proven yourself capable of handling that responsibility. Well, that’s what it feels like is happening with the National Security Agency.”

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Rather said he was skeptical that the NSA’s actions could simply be attributed to ineptitude.

“For a lot of Americans this is demolishing the trust in the government,” he remarked. “The national security state has gone far too far. You can argue in the first weeks, months, maybe the first years after 9/11 we needed to move to some extreme national security state position, but now in 2013 it’s going too far and I think there’s a sinking feeling with a lot of people that’s the case.”


more:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/22/dan-rather-nsa-is-demolishing-the-trust-in-the-government/

[Dustlawyer]

1. If we had a real news media this type of conversation would be all over the media. Instead,

Manning stories are already drying up and the media is moving on saying there is nothing else to be seen!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Trust was demolished by Richard Nixon (Cambodia, Watergate, etc.) and never recovered.

Reagan's Iran-Contra scam was another nail in the coffin.

[EVDebs]

3. Obama could defuse this situation with pardons to whistleblowers (Snowden, Manning, et al)

...but we know he won't.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Does anyone really trust the government?

I can't remember ever trusting the government.

You would have to be really gullible. I was just little in the 50's but you couldn't trust the government back then, either.