in the world love NSA spying we also got a big revelation today this is big news
the Guardian
Glenn Greenwald writes for The Guardian and Glenn read greenwald published in
The Guardian today
all whole brand new set love presentations
done for the NSA I believe by private contractor
talking about how you know they've been saying okay we're gathering all your
phone metadata
and so we we know you know if you
if you called an abortion clinic we know a few calls
your local subversive we know if you called you know the strip bar you know
if you call it whatever and you know in our
discovering the police departments are gathering license plate meta-data same
deal
well this is about a new program called
X key score and basically what it is is the NSA is also Traci mmm
your emails your your searches
and the web sites that you're visiting
in Natchez you but everyone
and without warrants
and the gathering in these mind-boggling amount today together in this huge
database X ke score
which they had earlier told congress they were not doing
now here's where it gets really weird
congressman Alan Grayson
congressman was gots dot com member him congressman Alan Grayson
the guy who the other congressman from Florida who stood up on the floor the
house and said here's the republican health care plan
1 don't get sick to you do get sick die quick
that guy alan Grayson he was holding hearings he was gonna hold hearings
today at the house representatives
a couple blocks from hearing you know it in the
been the in one of the office rooms one hearing rooms
and the US Capitol about
what the NSA is up to and Glenn Greenwald was going to testify at those
hearings
presumably flying in from South America where he lives
was gonna testify at those hearings presumably about this brand new
I mean it's not a brand new program but we just now today learned about the X
key score program
where the NSA is snooping on all of our web activity
cigar phone calls they got our web activity now and a very systematic way
and then they the article over the Guardian
details that's got all these graphics you know the the PowerPoint presentation
of exactly how they do it now they just plug your
your IP address to your email address into
into this giant database in BOM outcomes everything you've ever done basically
or
a variation thereof and Glenn Greenwald was gonna testify about this before
congress today
and here's where it gets even weirder
you know President Obama
he really doesn't like going to the Capitol building
I mean he's been there what twice
in five years and other than for ceremonial functions are many just
in a whole idea of going to the Capitol building to meet with members a congress
she's something he doesn't do he invites them to come to the white house
and he doesn't do that all that often
know which is one of the things that people on both the left and the right
have
a I don't say criticize critique them for you know the difference in style
or lyndon johnson knew all those people leaving congress for half his life feat
hang out with the bill clinton's very gregarious he likes hanging around
people I think
personally that President Obama's just i think is an introvert frankly who's
learned how to pretend that he's an extrovert min
he would just as soon not deal with all this human drama
will a little bit mister Spock in there
and just deal with the the details the facts but
today something happened
without warning without setting it up
without making appointments nothing the president decided that he's gonna go
over to congress and meet with the democrats
they democrats would you get together with me
now when the leader your party in the present as state says
would you please meet with me in your house
you pretty much have no choice but say sure
which means the
you know Glenn Greenwald I mean he may be in the waiting area
love dollars after of perfect
I don't of he's gone through through our
through customs yet or not but Glenn Greenwald will not be testified today
alan Grayson had to postpone the hearing to September
just like at least five weeks now
maybe slash probably longer
when of course this news will no longer be news there won't be cameras there
won't be any
interests nobody's gonna cover it it'll be a dead events
and much
so as my old friend lamar Walter news to say
coincidence or conspiracy
I think we can figure out what's going on here this is not rocket science
I mean the you know the the a and this is this is where
I find it so fascinating that the president
and the kinda John McCain
bei normal republican faction a few fish
anybody could call John McCain normal but I
oddly enough John McCain a you know the John McCain Lizzie
Lindsey Graham hard right
crazy moderates in the senate compared to Ted Cruz Rand Paul
the president's the so-called moderate republicans
and the so-called moderate democrats you know the kind of
Chuck Schumer category:other the the mainstream
dianne feinstein mmm group of democrats
are all same there you know this essay stuff
for you know there's no drugs in this car
whereas those liberals the genuine progressives
in the house embed genuine right
hardcore right-wingers the Tea Party years in the house
just voted so close that if only seven members of congress to change their
votes they would
defunded the NSA's phone tapping program now they've got another one to one
you're listening to the Thom Hartmann program call 866
97 th 0 am so my guess is that the white house in the establishment have learned
from the experience in the phone tap program and this one is not going to get
anywhere near the published a response