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In reply to the discussion: Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA [View all]countmyvote4real
(4,023 posts)176. We are so f**ked. n/t
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Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA [View all]
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
OP
and who knew it would be so easy to dismantle the social network post-election!
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#144
was Sunstein was tapped in order to implement his "infiltration" strategy?
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#12
My Theory? The Koolaid Brigade© is feeling slighted and underappreciated right now.
Dragonfli
Aug 2013
#177
Sunstein defines CT as "reference to the machinations of powerful people"
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#24
Yes, that is the irony of his proposals. And if someone in one of the threads notices something
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#105
Yes, and now we have someone who is going to watch out for our privacy, actually
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#116
I'm pretty sure Sunstein isn't a Republican. I just have a hard time believing that anyone
SlimJimmy
Aug 2013
#134
It's not a possibility. It's a reality that "Obama is just as good at his job as he seems,"...
truth2power
Aug 2013
#197
Couldn't get much more blatant, could it? "Hey, we hiring professional liars
DirkGently
Aug 2013
#27
That they'd hire PROfessionals to infiltrate forums makes a lot of SENSE. n/t
backscatter712
Aug 2013
#22
"That poster has been here since at least 2005 and has been very consistent in her positions."
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#103
and the conceit that they can make people believe that POWER doesn't affect change
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#30
Trust them? .....................................................LMFAO ....pathetic. n/t
L0oniX
Aug 2013
#33
well you know...journalists are terrorists, so if you knew what's good fer ya...
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#35
Hey - That's not a reform committee, It's a propaganda panel like the Creel Committee !
limpyhobbler
Aug 2013
#36
"on-shoring" of previously exported programs: Naomi Klein on China's All-Seeing Eye
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#41
it's really eye-opening...the problem with spying is as bad or worse when it's
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#146
I think so too. I just don't know what to say about this latest development...nt
Mojorabbit
Aug 2013
#96
I eagerly await the palace guard's rhetorical gymnastics on this, should be amusing.
KG
Aug 2013
#60
The left wing Robert Bork is someone we can all trust to protect our privacy!
Dawson Leery
Aug 2013
#79
there's been outrage about domestic spying since Cointelpro become known
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#85
He unwittingly trusts the wrong people, he's threatened by the wrong people, or...
polichick
Aug 2013
#115
Because from a slightly different point of view the're not "wrong" at all.
GliderGuider
Aug 2013
#199
I guess I am one they would target b/c I KNOW OUR GOVERNMENT IS TOTALLY BOUGHT AND
Dustlawyer
Aug 2013
#98
to add on to what you're saying...a particular Rep/Sen doesn't even have to be "bought"
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#100
I agree. As to Alan Grayson, I love him. Everyone loves to bash us Plaintiff lawyers as ambulance
Dustlawyer
Aug 2013
#135
i don't think anyone is dashing his smarts -- it's on the subject of NSA that he's questionable
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#145
or psyops, even. these are dark waters for someone so close to the president.
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#141
Thank you for posting this. Am so looking forward to barrage of Linkosaurus-Blue links
idwiyo
Aug 2013
#151
Interesting that he never lifted a finger to market the benefits of Obamacare
BlueStreak
Aug 2013
#127
Sounds like a tacit admission that the NSA is inherently untrustworthy. n/t
winter is coming
Aug 2013
#128
add this link: CASS SUNSTEIN: Meet the new Obama elite, or "all the president's middlebrows"
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#150
Obama's "close confident" is also the husband of Obama's Ambassador to the United Nations.
Zen Democrat
Aug 2013
#205
Kind of like how Priebus says Repuke policies are fine; they just need better messaging
bullwinkle428
Aug 2013
#168
The crowning insult to this affair is that Sunstein and the other apparatchiks
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#175
I respect Clarke. He has always done his job honestly and to the best of his ability.
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2013
#180