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Analyst's note:  We had better be VERY careful playing politics in this arena as, not unlike in the days of George Washington, we have known enemies (foreign and domestic) operating within our midst.  In God we trust, all others we check.  We have spies for a reason .... something to do with espionage by our enemies (foreign and domestic) and thus maintaining our national security.  Maybe it is just the Marine training that still lingers, but I also don't recall ever learning anything about the Obama technique called "leading from behind."  

America is necessarily forced to operate in the shadowy world of double agents and covert operations, of codes and ciphers, cell phones & tweets as well as FaceBook, etc., etc. – a world so secret that even the spymaster himself doesn't know the identities of some of his agents. One of those such organizations is our National Security Agency (NSA).

Some Americans want more thinking, talking and understanding about how to protect our nation against the global Islamist jihadist threat.  Well kind of ...  until our federal government, under one Barack Hussein Obama, stopped using such words in order not to offend our Islamist enemy.  We must continue to concentrate on what we know the enemy (both foreign and domestic) is capable of and less on what we think he is planning. This will help stop our consistently underestimating enemy offensive capabilities, and reduce our national vulnerability to a masterful deception.

That enemy (some domestic but of foreign persuasion) of which I speak has embedded itself in our governments, universities and other elements of national infrastructure.  They presently call themselves "progressives" (otherwise known as socialist/Marxists) and have aligned themselves with the one-worlder's and Islamist in order to bring America to her knees.  This "domestic enemy" is found operating and headquartered domestically in Washington, D.C. 

Let me be very clear, I have no doubt .... Mr. Obama is NOT playing on the side that is protecting America.  Mr. Obama and his administration is completely eviscerating the NSA's ability to collect intelligence TO PROTECT US Citizens …. and IS PROTECTING our worldwide Islamist and other enemies of this United States.   This is the same administration that we know that Muslims Training with US Army Attempt Kidnapping of 12 yr Old Girl in Missouri – Authorities Drop Charges

For all this the America people will pay once again with treasure and blood.  Please read on for further insight as to why I say this.

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As President Obama prepared to address the nation on surveillance, the New York Times revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has developed the capability to access computers that are not connected to the Internet. According to the Times, based on classified documents obtained from Edward Snowden, the NSA uses “a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into . . . computers” or in some cases “a briefcase-size relay station that intelligence agencies can set up miles away from the target.”

Evidence of another NSA plot to spy on Americans? Not at all. The Times reports, “There is no evidence that the N.S.A. has implanted its software or used its radio frequency technology inside the United States.” And the NSA confirmed that the “N.S.A.’s activities are focused and specifically deployed against — and only against — valid foreign intelligence targets.”

In other words, this (no longer) secret program poses precisely zero threat to American civil liberties.

So what is the redeeming social value of the Times’ story? What “abuse” is being revealed? Why is this something the public needs to know?

The answers are: None. None. And it isn’t.

Before this disclosure, terrorists believed that if they did not connect to the Internet, they were “off the grid” and out of range of NSA surveillance. Now they know that is not true.As a result they can take countermeasures — and stop using the offline computers the NSA was monitoringwhich means we will lose access to vital streams of intelligence we needed to prevent an attack.

As one former senior intelligence official told me recently, stories like this are nothing more than “espionage porn.” They serve no greater social purpose other than to titillate.

And this is just one example. Consider: Snowden has exposed the fact that the NSA had infiltrated the computer networks of Tsinghua University in Beijing, which houses one of China’s six major backbone networks through which Internet data for millions of Chinese citizens pass. This activity has no implications for the civil liberties of Americans, but the revelation did enormous damage to our intelligence efforts in China.

Or take Snowden’s revelation that the NSA had intercepted the communications of then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and had discovered “a change in the way Russian leadership signals have been normally transmitted,” which they were exploiting to eavesdrop on the Kremlin. Again, this activity has no implications for the privacy of American citizens but enormous implications for U.S. national security.

Or take Snowden’s revelation that the NSA had been using data from Internet hubs in south and west Germany to monitor Internet traffic to Syria and Malitwo hotbeds of al-Qaeda activitya revelation that tipped off our enemies to these vital U.S. intelligence operations.

Or take his exposure of the NSA’s Office of Tailored Access Operations (or TAO), which find ways to break into the computers of the United States’ adversaries and even intercepts the delivery of electronics to plant bugs in them. All these operations are focused on valid foreign intelligence targets, but no matter. The public needs to know.

None of these activities are illegal. As President Obama pointed out in his speech Friday, “The legal safeguards that restrict surveillance against U.S. persons without a warrant do not apply to foreign persons overseas.” None of these activities are targeted at Americans. All are vital to U.S. security. Yet thanks to Snowden, and the newspapers that published his illegal revelations, everyone now knows about them — including the terrorists who want to strike at our country again.

Snowden has become the Larry Flynt of the intelligence world – a shameless espionage pornographer. Except for one big difference: Most respectable publications would never publish pornography.

As damaging as Snowden’s revelations have been, the real damage has come from how Obama has chosen to respond to them. In his speech Friday, Obama declared that the men and women of the NSA are “not abusing authorities in order to listen to your private phone calls or read your e-mails.” Their activities, Obama said, are lawful and important for national security yet he is changing the NSA’s programs anyway to placate his critics. Now, for the first time in history, the United States will extend the same privacy protections enjoyed by U.S. citizens to all foreign people anywhere in the world — including terrorists.

In other words, espionage porn has forced the commander in chief to buckle.

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