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In reply to the discussion: Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone [View all]zeemike
(18,998 posts)14. Well why not admit it?
I mean we are so distracted with threats of war and economic suicide who will say anything?
And once it is said it becomes old news and then becomes acceptable to democrats and republicans alike...because there is a law or something that says if you don't complain when it happens they you have to STFU about it.
The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove[1]):
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study
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Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone [View all]
kpete
Sep 2013
OP
The problem they have is that they never will make whistle-blowers extinct.
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#20
I think we are close to a terrible tipping point. I think the NSA is at some point going
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#21
They dont really have to have anything on Pres Obama. They just have to explain to
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#31
You have to look behind the pictures to see what's really going on... n/t
PoliticAverse
Sep 2013
#22
"Upstream from the backbone" is venacular for the NSA taps into CALEA-compliant switches.
leveymg
Sep 2013
#26
Deja DU: This information was on DU a long time ago. We have known this all along.
Coyotl
Sep 2013
#28
Dianne Feinstein has no more idea than a two-year-old about what goes on with the internet.
JDPriestly
Sep 2013
#30
I bet we will find "pole dancing" in her past. Not that there is anything wrong with that. nm
rhett o rick
Sep 2013
#36