Holy Cow! Asst. AG & NSA Deputy Chief declared enemies of the state by Obama!

[mamboni]

This is incredible. These high level NSA and AG officers testify before Congress and now warrants have been issued for their arrests by Holder. Obama has declared them "enemies of the state!" Can you say "contempt of Congress," constitutional crisis and Impeachment?


Wed Jul 17, 2013 at 05:26 PM PDT
DEVELOPING: Top NSA and DOJ Officials Have Fled the U.S. - Obama Admin. Files Espionage Charges

byDavid Harris GershonFollow



In a stunning development, Deputy Director of the NSA, John Inglis, along with Assistant Attorney General, James Cole, have fled the United States after their participation in a contentious congressional meeting on Capitol Hill.

In that meeting, both Inglis and Cole revealed that the depth of NSA spying far surpassed anything that whistleblower Edward Snowden has made public to date. The unauthorized leaks to Congress by Inglis and Cole, which exposed more about NSA spying than anything Snowden has revealed, shook congressional leaders to their core.

The National Security Agency revealed to an angry congressional panel on Wednesday that its analysis of phone records and online behavior goes exponentially beyond what it had previously disclosed. [...]
John C Inglis, the deputy director of the surveillance agency, told a member of the House judiciary committee that NSA analysts can perform "a second or third hop query" through its collections of telephone data and internet records in order to find connections to terrorist organizations.

"Hops" refers to a technical term indicating connections between people. A three-hop query means that the NSA can look at data not only from a suspected terrorist, but from everyone that suspect communicated with, and then from everyone those people communicated with, and then from everyone all of those people communicated with.

The Obama administration, blindsided by the leaks, immediately announced that the two would be charged under The Espionage Act, and declared them enemies of the state.
Eric Holder, in a hastily convened press conference, admitted that the two had fled the United States on private jets immediately after the hearing, and that their whereabouts where unknown. He was, however, confident that the U.S. would bring them to justice.

“The national security of the United States has been damaged by those leaks. The safety of the American people and safety of people in allied nations is at risk." [...]
“I am confident that the people who are responsible will be held accountable.”

Rumors are that the two senior intelligence officials have fled to Venezuela, where like Snowden, it is anticipated they will seek asylum. However, much speculation is swirling at this stage regarding their location and fate.
While President Obama, in a short session before reporters, said, "We won't be scrambling any jets to catch these middle-aged leakers," diplomatic channels were already furiously at work, trying to close off all international airspace.

Updates on this story as details emerge will appear below the break.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...ionage-Charges#

[mamboni]

This might be a subtle joke a la Onion. Looking into it now.

[Shami-Amourae]

It's a joke. It was already posted:
http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthre...e-Fled-the-U-S

[Jewboo]

Dear everyone on Daily Kos: (64+ / 0-)

If it took you more than 1 second after reading the title to recognize this as snark, you are, I respectfully critique, a big part of why this place is so nuts so often. Way too many people here need to leave the cliff of their worst expectations/hopes/murderous-longings, to retreat into the prairie of honest smirking and healthy suspicion. And beer. IMHFOB

And I love you. Have I told you lately?

Here, have some pandas.
by Little on Wed Jul 17, 2013 at 05:39:48 PM PDT

[Twisted Titan]

What sad is the corruption in the country is so dam thick a story like this can fly.

[Spectrism]

I got to the point where it said they fled the country and knew it was a fake. The snakes love to coil around each other and there are snake pits in every corner of the world. If it were true, you might as well start chopping heads off snakes right where you are.

[Shami-Amourae]

What sad is the corruption in the country is so dam thick a story like this can fly.

What's worse is still virtually no one would care even if it were true.

[Spectrism]

What's worse is still virtually no one would care even if it were true.

So MANY people are such morons.... we have the Zimmerman affair to show how imbecilic people are. Anyone who can look at Omamba and see a legitimate president is beyond hope.

[Ponce]

So, is it real or not.......I mean, is this another "Ponce is God Jr" situation?.......life is now a joke where it is hard to separate the truth from the lies.

V

[Cebu_4_2]

They haven't even started since "domestic propaganda is now legal".