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Corporate Media Discover Private Spies. In Other News, No WMD in Iraq
Stop the presses and call the government spokespeople back from Martha's Vineyard. The corporate media have discovered that the United States is radically outsourcing national security and sensitive intelligence operations. Cable news channels breathlessly report on the "groundbreaking," "exclusive" Washington Post series, Top Secret America, a two-year investigation by Dana Priest and William Arkin. No doubt there is some important stuff in this series. Both Arkin and Priest have done outstanding work for many years on sensitive, life-or-death subjects. And that is one of the main reasons why this series has, thus far, been incredibly disappointing. Its greatest accomplishment is forcing a discussion onto corporate TV years after it would have had an actual impact.
The misplaced hype surrounding the Post series speaks volumes to the ahistorical nature of US media culture. Next week, if the New York Times published a story on how there were no WMDs in Iraq, there would no doubt be cable news shows that would act like it was an earth-moving revelation delivered by Moses on the stone tablet of exclusive, groundbreaking journalism.
The Post does a fine job of exploring the scope of the privatization and providing some new or updated statistics. It also produces a few zingers from senior officials like Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "This is a terrible confession," Gates said in Tuesday's installment. "I can't get a number on how many contractors work for the Office of the Secretary of Defense." It was also hilarious to read CIA director Leon Panetta-who just gave Blackwater a brand new $100 million global CIA contract-act like he is anything other than a contractor addict. "For too long, we've depended on contractors to do the operational work that ought to be done" by CIA employees, Panetta told the Post. But replacing them "doesn't happen overnight. When you've been dependent on contractors for so long, you have to build that expertise over time." Panetta told the Post he was concerned about contracting with corporations, whose responsibility "is to their shareholders, and that does present an inherent conflict." I wonder if the Blackwater guys working for Panetta can contain their laughter reading those statements. I imagine them taping a post-it note that says "Kick me" on Panetta's back and then chuckling about it with the Lockheed contractors.
The Post is "doing their best to obfuscate what contractors really do for US intelligence. They're eight years behind and still haven't caught up.... there's virtually nothing in their series about the broader picture-like what it means to have private for-profit companies operating at the highest levels of our national security."
What is perhaps most telling about the Post series is how little detail is provided on the most sensitive operations performed by contractors: assassinations, torture, rendition and operational planning.
In reality, there is little in the Post series that, in one way or another, has not already been documented by independent journalist Tim Shorrock, author of the (actually) groundbreaking book, Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. With the exception of some details and a lot of color, much of what I have read in the Post's series thus far I had already read in Shorrock's book and his previous reporting for Salon, Mother Jones and The Nation. Shorrock was the reporter who first revealed the extent of the radical privatization of intel operations. In 2007, Shorrock obtained and published a document from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence showing that 70 percent of the US intelligence budget was spent on private contractors. Shorrock was way out in front of this story and, frankly, corporate media ignored it. When I was working on my book on Blackwater, which first came out in 2007, Shorrock provided me with some crucial insights into the world of privatized intelligence. Shorrock remains a valued colleague and source and the Post is just wrong to not credit him for the work he has done on this story. Everyone should read Shorrock's latest story which includes an exclusive photo tour through the private intelligence community.
The Post and its reporters, Shorrock told me, "are doing their best to obfuscate what contractors really do for US intelligence. They're eight years behind and still haven't caught up. Basically their stories are throwing big numbers at readers-such as the fact that of 854,000 people with top security clearances, 265,000 are contractors. But that's work that can be done by interns; there's virtually nothing in their series about the broader picture-like what it means to have private for-profit companies operating at the highest levels of our national security."
Much of the series reads like a description of the mundane work of analysts and IT people with the types of stats Shorrock mentioned thrown in. Of course, it is meant to feel insider-ish to read the description of the General Dynamics contractor tracking a white pick-up truck in Afghanistan suspected of being "part of a network making roadside bombs" and with a few clicks of the mouse revealing the history of the vehicle, the address and identity of the driver and a list of visitors to his house. But what about the ultra-sensitive work contractors do for the NSA or the highly secretive National Reconnaissance Office? "It's very significant that, in their database, [the Post] eliminated information about what key contractors do for the agencies such as NSA," says Shorrock. "There's tons of data about these companies in their database, but not what they actually do." (People wanting more information on contractors doing this work, such as Booz-Allen, SAIC, Northrop Grumman and others should check out the contractor database Shorrock developed with CorpWatch last year.)
Also, what about the contractors who have tortured prisoners, flown rendition flights and participated in lethal "direct actions" ie assassination operations?
According to the July 20 article in the Post's series: "Private contractors working for the CIA have recruited spies in Iraq, paid bribes for information in Afghanistan and protected CIA directors visiting world capitals. Contractors have helped snatch a suspected extremist off the streets of Italy, interrogated detainees once held at secret prisons abroad and watched over defectors holed up in the Washington suburbs. At Langley headquarters, they analyze terrorist networks. At the agency's training facility in Virginia, they are helping mold a new generation of American spies.... Contractors kill enemy fighters. They spy on foreign governments and eavesdrop on terrorist networks. They help craft war plans. They gather information on local factions in war zones."
Wow, an engaged reader might think after reading that, this will be fascinating. Now we are getting somewhere. But instead of revealing new details on these types of operations and naming names and employers and specific incidents, none of that is to be found. The discussion of torture and extrajudicial killings committed by private contractors is relegated to a whitewashing by the Post. "Contractor misdeeds in Iraq and Afghanistan have hurt U.S. credibility in those countries as well as in the Middle East," Priest and Arkin write. "Abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, some of it done by contractors, helped ignite a call for vengeance against the United States that continues today. Security guards working for Blackwater added fuel to the five-year violent chaos in Iraq and became the symbol of an America run amok." [Emphases added.]
I'm sorry, Blackwater "added fuel" to "chaos?" "America run amok?" These are very strange descriptions of the take-away message from the massacre of seventeen innocent Iraqi civilians, the alleged murder of a bodyguard to the Iraqi vice president and night-hunting Iraqis as "payback" for 9/11. Not to mention the allegations of young prostitutes performing oral sex for a dollar, guns smuggled on private planes in dog food bags, hiding weapons from ATF agents and on and on. But more important, where in the Post series is the examination of the CIA assassination program that relied on Blackwater and other private contractors? Where is the investigation of Erik Prince's hit teams that operated in Germany and elsewhere? What about the ongoing work of contractors in the drone bombing program? What about Blackwater contractors calling in air-strikes in Afghanistan or operating covertly in Pakistan?
Also, since when is torturing prisoners a "misdeed?" According to the Post, torture at Abu Ghraib "helped to ignite a call for vengeance against the United States." This type of vapid description of the consequences of heinous crimes committed by America and its proxies has become like daily bread in corporate media outlets. The Post's focus on the calls for vengeance rather than the incredible uphill quest for justice in the US courts by the victims of this torture is telling. As is the total omission of the other torture facilities employed by the United States-some of which were revealed first by Dana Priest and the Washington Post.
Marcy Wheeler--another unfamous journalist who rarely gets credit from the corporate all-stars when she scoops them-described this aspect of the Post story on her EmptyWheel blog: "Abuse of prisoners happened. But apparently, only at Abu Ghraib, not at Bagram, not at Gitmo, not at firebases where detainees died. And the names of those contractors? Their role in the abuse? The WaPo stops short of telling you, for example, that a CACI interrogator was the one instructing the grunts at Abu Ghraib to abuse detainees. The WaPo also doesn't tell you the CACI contractors never paid any price for doing so. The WaPo doesn't mention that DOD believed they had no way of holding contractors accountable for such things (though the case of David Passaro, in which a detainee died, of course proved that contractors could be prosecuted)."
Perhaps the Post plans to publish a story called "Top Top Super Duper Triple-Decker Secret America" where the paper actually delves deep into the outsourcing of assassinations, torture, rendition, interrogation and "find fix and finish" operations. That would truly be ground-breaking. Until then, buy Tim Shorrock's book and read Marcy Wheeler.
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Show AllWashington Post has the audience, Shorrock on his own can not find one. People trusted Paul Revere, not the other guys before him that warned on the British.
Seet HitFannity has an audience, a much bigger one than Amy Goodman.
We get the government we deserve.
As long as we try to keep up appearances so that we are not exposed for who we are the super liars will always beat out the minor ones.
Just finished a nine month contract in the middle of nowhere Kansas. Some real Seet fans there. The machine shop guys love the machine shop shows on motorbikes and fish depleting boat runs in the storm.
The word church was dropped often to make oneself look respectable. Even when you had 22 counts of sexual indecency booked against you.
Real conversation was shouted out by the big belligerent ones.
Keep on keepin on folks.
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No! I'm getting the government YOU deserve!
Ex-squeeze me, but da most safest place would be wif mesa head betwein mesa legs justa like da rest da Amerkican peples. Dey all kowards anyways.
Remember how voters begged the Democrats to "get some spine?" while they themselves are down on their knees begging? "Oh please, masters, throw us a bone, just a little one will do."
And a "little one" is all that will be delivered --- with strings attached.
Another elitist diatribe against the workingman (the author only spoke of "guys").
It's too easy to revile the ignorance of the masses in America - particularly when they're Kansans.
The hard part is trying to come up with ways to change that picture.
Qui-Gon: "You almost got us killed. Are you brainless?"
Jar Jar: "I spake."
Qui-Gon: "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
―Qui-Gon Jinn and Jar Jar Binks[src]
Considering the (absolutely uncontestable) fact that the average American has spent pricisely 0.358 seconds thinking about this, maybe getting any word out at all in the Post is a good thing.
Which I think may be the point of the comment at 10:31.
No one is denying that it is a good thing that the word is getting out. No one.
And yet it is equally if not MORE important to point out the the Post, Times etc. were basically abetting the situation for eight years by not reporting on it. THAT may be more important than the original story.
I am trying also to get at the attitude of so many who take the information that they get from any source as absolute fact, and a placated and complacent society that seems to gravitate to what is convenient to them.
There is not need for them to dig deeper. These folks are sitting ducks for HitFannities. They are actually fantastic people, and I felt very much at home there, thanks to their hospitality.
But they have never heard of the Washington Post. And one of them once asked me "Why dont you just get all the causes out of your system today, and we can stop listening to you?" By simply providing information in my discussions, I caused quiet some discomfort. I could only go so far, and they almost dismissed my information and stuck to their guns.
So this ignorance will continue as long as we are in our comfort zone. One of the only ways to counteract the misinformation is to get into the circle of people who believe what you dont, and engage. (my way anyway).
If you are belligerent, confronational and snobbish, you are never going to ge anywhere. When you are forgiving, even if you act like your opinion loses out, you make them think.
and hopefully they continue to do so, even after they leave your conversation feeling superior, and vote with more thought the next time.
My two bits. Inconsequential as it may be.
Until then, we get the government we deserve.
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"so many who take the information that they get from any source as absolute fact, and a placated and complacent society that seems to gravitate to what is convenient to them."
Agree! One big, salient one was the US election of Democrats to the Whitehouse and both chambers of the House! "He's the peace candidate!" "Elect Democrats!" So they did! Remember how millions of Americans were swept off their feet? From my particularly privileged vantage point, most appeared to be "out of their own minds."
Exactly the plan - a highly designed effort to scam the "In crowd" Americans: Ladies and gentlemen, see here this band wagon with all the best and smartest people on board? Don't cha just want be cool like we are? Well then, don't ask silly question, or bring up silly issues. Jump on board, there's room for us all under the Big Tent! Yes We Can! and all that jazz!"
Ha!
I think it's around 3-5 percent who actually can't be coerced in this manner, but the great majority can be. Wow. It's pretty awesome to witness. Mindless zombies. and now they're screeeeeming, "The Republicans are stopping the Democrats from helping people!" when it's not at all true. Democrats can pass anything they please. I'm stunned that they don't know this.
Bill Clinton had a revelation: "It's the economy, stupid."
From a voters perspective, "It's the sheople, stupid."
If one goes to the link that connects to Marcy Wheeler's blog, one finds Ms. Wheeler and others asking questions of Tim Shorrock. It is quite telling that someone asks Shorrock if any of the so-called liberals on MSNBC has asked Shorrock to be on their programs. Shorrock replied that he has had calls from news outlets from other countries asking him to appear as their guest but he has received no requests from people such as Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow Diane Reim or Keith Olbermann. So much for our liberal media exhibiting their liberal bias to the American public and falling all over themselves in their zeal to tell Americans what contractors and spies actually do in foreign countries.
The motto of the corporate media seems to be to let the American public believe that they are getting the truth when in reality they are only getting a tiny bit of that nebulous commodity called the truth. Get them interested but not too interested as that would mean truly exposing the lies that they have been given by their government.
Yep - for all you Obama/Maddow/MSNBC worshipers, thanks for making the world a worse place.
Yo Troll, If Obama/Maddow/MSNBC etc. get your panties in such a wad then return to Faux Noise and pull the knob off your Motorola.
Oh, look. Trolls out in force, displaying their typical high level of intelligence and rapier wit.
And you are the mindset the establishment dreams of. However, I must compliment you on chosing a name (lightsout) that could not be more fitting. The brain of a flea, compared to yours, would resemble the IQ of Einstein.
Just listening to the endless praise heaped on the person of Barack Obama by Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, et al, sends one to the vomitorium. They fawn all over him, give him a free pass on everything and constantly divert our attention from him by focusing on such salient issues of the day as the latest gems from Fox News and Worst Persons in The World, topped off by a weekly reading from Thurber; truly earth-shattering events in today's world. The stuff of which real interest in domestic and international affairs is made. Surely, one could not imagine that those multi-million dollar salaries buy a modicum of misplaced loyalty.
The only anchor at MSNBC with real balls is Dylan Ratigan. I can't help but wonder how long GE is going to tolerate that brand of candor and integrity.
Thank God for the Internet in the service of all those who really do want to know the truth and work tirelessly to get it.
Keep up the good work, Jeremy. You are a real gem.
Can we assume then that the solution to your love of MSNBC is the dawgschitt that passes for reporting from Faux Noise?
You can assume anything you want. I'll assume you don't have no observational skills.
Absolutely not! Fox News, in the arena of journalistic integrity, is lower than whale shit on the bottom of the Mindinao Trough!
Jar Jar: "The Bosses would do terrible tings to me, terrible tings to me if me goin' back dere!"
Qui-Gon: "Do you hear that?"
Jar-Jar: "Yah."
Qui-Gon Jinn: "That is the sound of a thousand terrible things heading this way."
Jar-Jar: "Count mesa outta dis one! Better dead here, den dead in da core.… Yee guds, whata mesa sayin?!"
The barn gate was open and the horses already left, so the Post was forced to report on it to regain an iota of credibility.
Don't give it to them.
They are trying to preserve their place as an information gate keeper in order to abet the corporate right wing in any way they can.
Bingo!
Information is not a competition. Your book on Blackwater was well researched and informative. Does that mean no one else should report on them or you should stop. Or, I already said that, haven't you read my book? A grade school response, in my opinion. Get the truth out as often and in as many outlets as possible. Restating relevant information may seem boring, belated, or unimaginative, but necessary given the mountains of misinformation we are daily exposed to.
I think you're missing the point.
Of course restating relevant information is necessary and welcome in this Age of Misinformation and Obfuscation.
The bigger question is "why now"? They have a party every year in October that is the IC equivalent of the Oscars. This has been happening in WaPo's own backyard, so it's not like this is some "new" discovery (which is exactly how it is being portrayed by the MSM). Also, as Scahill brilliantly lays out, the WaPo "exposé" merely scratches the surface and doesn't engage the readers to analyze the pitfalls inherent in the privatization of our national security. By referring to the torture program as a "misdeed" ameliorates the damage done. (Similar to calling the BP disaster an "accident" or the gush a "spill".)
From the article: "The Post's focus on the calls for vengeance rather than the incredible uphill quest for justice in the US courts by the victims of this torture is telling."
I understand your point and respect Mr Scahill's hard work and dedication. We need to encourage more timely and relevant journalism, but without liberal/Democratic infighting that conservatives gleefully encourage. Mr. Scahill is in a position to influence personally, the direction of journalism, without a public declaration of righteousness and indignation that, while appropriate, does not move the ball forward.
There is much in our civilization that is honest, dignified, honorable and seeking the truth, however uncomfortable. I find on this site, and many others, honest journalism, caring intelligent men and women doing the hard and dangerous work of bringing out the truth and exposing lies. Puncturing the ball is no better.
Journalism is not dying, imagination and critical thinking are.
Did you maybe miss the point?
I'm still trying to wrap my head around all this, but Scahill's critique resonates with something that bothered me when I watched "Democracy Now" this past Monday*.
Apart from the overwhelmingly massive scope and substance of the story, co-author Bill Arkin understandably hyped the reportage as a major, multi-media investigation.
I won't bother to review the transcript now, but IIRC he mentioned that there were media tie-ins with "Frontline", sophisticated Internet resources, etc. I think it's fair to sum up Arkin's pitch as asserting that this story is a true blockbuster, a major studio production with whistles, bells, ribbons, and bows.
It was as if the WaPo not only anticipated the eternal question of "Will this exposé story 'have legs'?", but published it with a set of bionic legs guaranteed to give it the momentum typically lacking in other tales of government scandal and iniquity.
The stale colloquialism "It's all good!" popped into my mind.
At first blush, this is a good example of the kind of muckraking or "watchdog" reporting that has been all but eliminated from the corporate media diet. It's what the "press" is SUPPOSED to be doing ALL THE TIME, and both reporters and publisher deserves credit where credit is due.
But although I don't begrudge Arkin expressing his professional pride and satisfaction, his touting of the high-concept production values of The Story™ AS A JOURNALISTIC ARTIFACT almost eclipsed the appalling revelations in the actual story.
I also worry that The Story™ will prove to be another case of the authorities successfully hiding evil in plain sight. The Story™ may be the equivalent of an elaborate Box Set of a movie formerly available only as an obscure, even rare, bootleg.
To the extent that I "hope", I certainly hope that this proves to be as pervasive and transformative as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" allegedly was in promoting the cause of abolition.
But it may turn out to be corporate media lightning rod like the Abu Ghraib photos, the ACORN scandal, and a hundred others. Even when the rocks are seemingly flipped over to expose the seamy stuff underneath, it doesn't precipitate a critical mass of public reaction that might force corrective action.
Scahill's critique doesn't strike me as sour grapes, but rather an appropriately cynical concern that The Story™'s built-in, self-propelling Legs may just take readers in circles, and leave them stranded on a shelf.
* http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2010/7/19
It was indeed an "accidental rhyme", Justice Arcs!
Thanks for pointing it out.
NEWS FLASH for our media
There is a full blown stazi in America , feeding data to the 800000 Washington analysts.
Its called gang stalking and warrant less surveillance. its a hate crime that uses psychological torture, slander, in some cases property damage.
They always paint hate and fear of their victims, thats how they convince people to do the dirty.
Its when community watch vigilante groups lead by firefighters and ems workers who report back to your local law enforcement decide they are going to destroy some one in their community, its a crime supported by right wing republican Christian lunatics.
And it can be anyone for just saying something upsets one of these sadistic murdering psychopaths.
When you destroy a persons mind, you are a murderer. And psychological torture will destroy your mind.
So take your IAFF sitckers, your Jesus symbols, your sheriff sticker and stick where the sun dont shine, then take a short trip to hell.
When I see those symbols , I see natzi Germany SS symbols, murdering, cruel , sadistic assholes.
After three years of this gang stalking torture, what else can I say about this people.
I have been followed and stalked and harassed 24/7 for three years by these organizations in and around the Tampa bay area.
They use cointell pro gang stalking psychological torture tactics to get me to act crazy, so i did, and drive them crazy.
dont get me wrong, theyre wining, its taken a terrible toll on me, i spend 4 hours a day in a car, and they follow , tail gate and harass me all the time , plus they control the traffic lights.
I dont care what they think about my driving, I drive 10 under the speed limit and stop 50 times a day, thats to stop the severe tailgating.
Remember , they are unconstitutional , 4th amendment law breaking, torture freaks committing a hate crime.
All gang stalking is a hate crime, period.
"Its when community watch vigilante groups lead by firefighters and ems workers who report back to your local law enforcement decide they are going to destroy some one in their community, its a crime supported by right wing republican Christian lunatics.
And it can be anyone for just saying something upsets one of these sadistic murdering psychopaths."
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What you describe had a name in Communist Cuba: CDR (Committees for the Defense of the Revolution). These "committees" were neighborhood watches set up by and with the rif raff, the gossipy old hags and the useless old farts who had nothing better to do than spy on people. They used to keep watch around the clock wearing an armband similar to the ones worn by the Nazis for identification purposes. A report by one of these Comrades (compañeros) would usually land the target in jail for 25 years. The object of their wrath were those who usually wore jeans or sneakers from the US or had any materials posessions the compañeros envied and couldn't have themselves. Ask any Cuban and they'll tell you the horror stories.
Leave it to Jeremy to get to the truth and tell it like it is. Sadly, I predict that he will have 'an unfortunate' accident any time now at the hands of Blackwater operatives, whose path he's crossed in more than one ocassion.
The articles give a picture of the scope of what is essentially a 4th branch of our government. I can use the interactive programs to do research. Really the main point is to explain it is totally out of control, costing us a huge amount of money, and probably not really making us any safer. Did you know it was this extensive Mr. Scahill? I am very well read and did not know it was this huge. As you said it would have been better to know two years ago and we all know the WAPO is not going to divulge any important details. Corporate media never does. This series is really just the beginning of the discussion, now people will be seeking more information. I wonder if they used any of Trevor Paglen's work? What they have done is open up the subject for discussion which should help sell books written by the experts. I just ordered Sharrock's book and have yours already.
Shorrock sez: "... there's virtually nothing in (the Post) series about the broader picture-like what it means to have private for-profit companies operating at the highest levels of our national security."
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Eh. Why not?
Private for-profit companies are also operating your "elections".
Both Scahill and Dana Priest are very high on my list of first-rate journalists.
One can hope that their little dispute here will increase awareness of the moral hazards associated with mercenaries.
As for people in Kansas who never heard of The Washington Post...I have noticed that most locals here do not read their local newspaper and cannot name the people running their local government.
One aspect of Disaster Capitalism is that it tends to eliminate what used to be called "leisure time" through which the Middle Class could compete with the rich in expanding their consciousness.
Increasingly, behavior is reactionary rather than contemplative, driven by the fight or flight syndrome.
Whatever arguments one might raise in opposition to statist militarism, the privatization of these objectives is a far greater threat.
The subtext of the D.C. Post articles and of Scahill's groundbreaking earlier journalism is that the "domestic blowback" of this privatization of war could be, to put it delicately, extremely disruptive to the social order.
The last people I want living in my neighborhood are unemployed former mercenaries with easy access to arms and little experience with negotiation.
Given today's technology we might also want to redefine "literacy."
Clinton may have been right to ask what the meaning of "is" is. (The to-be verb has been an issue for decades. To kill or not to kill, that IS the question...)
The point is that as others have observed long before, as with Viet Nam, our wars tend to come back home.
It is time for the Baby Boomers to exercise their wisdom instead of their acquisitiveness.
We may never recover from what Dubya did to the world as well as to us. Not a digression... Are you the parent of a mercenary? What was more important: the national interest, or the company's bottom line? By no means the only dichotomy, but relevant here.
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wHEN Do you THINK Americans are going to figure out that in order to have 800000 analysts , they are sifting through data from millions of Americans phone calls and emails.
The questions that needs to be asked , is how much data needs analyzing and where is it coming from
is any of this warrant less surveillance causing harm to Americans business's or reputations,
what can Americans DO FOR redress of grievance, if they are harmed or damaged and in what court
I have been followed and stalked by Fusion center, community watch, and professional spies for three years, they have done great damage to my life, and me, what ever the trigger WAS they dam well know I am a good person and American patriot, and still they follow and harass me .
because , 800000 analysts cant figure out why I am a threat that requires this much attention.
wow, they are either the most inept security spy network the world has ever seen or i am the best criminal mind that is so tricky , they cant get evidence on me.
But trust me when tell you, my surveillance was physiological torture, try to break me, or get me to commit suicide, or prove me delusional.
And trust me when i tell you , it was orchestrated by right wing Republican Christian pricks .
Nasty , dirty , lieng , sadistic scum bags.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.