Ron Paul: Congress Has Been ‘Derelict In Giving So Much Power To This Government’ – NSA Whistleblower Snowden Gave Cash To His Campaign


Ron Paul has been warning for a decade about the rise of the perfect security state, and now he sees his worst fears realized

– ?Ron Paul says Congress has been ‘derelict in giving so much power to this government’ as it’s revealed NSA whistleblower gave cash to his campaign (Daily Mail, June 10, 2013):

  • Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, gave $500 to Paul’s 2012 campaign
  • Paul snarks that PATRIOT Act author Jim Sensenbrenner’s outrage is ‘not coming from a deeply principled viewpoint’
  • Says a President Paul would have stopped the entire NSA PRISM program, scrapped giant data storage facility under construction in Utah
  • Former presidential candidate and retired long-time Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul told MailOnline on Monday that if he had won the GOP nomination in 2012 and ultimately claimed the White House, the National Security Agency would no longer be in the dragnet business.

    ‘I would have said that we have to continue to have some surveillance,’ Paul said during an exclusive interview, ‘but only under the legitimate authority of the Constitution.’

    He criticized the Obama administration and his former congressional colleagues for executing what he called an ‘end run’ around the Constitution, leveraging the controversial PATRIOT Act to do it, and then keeping the result secret from the American people.

    ‘We want them to ask why the terrorists want to hurt us, right?’ he began. ‘And then when they ask, they don’t like the answer they get. So they lie about it.’

    ‘And then we expect them to be truthful about how we can solve the problem while taking the Constitution seriously? Why are we surprised when the government hides the ball?’

    Paul said that if he were president, he would not ‘ask for things in a FISA court,’ and would ‘only conduct searches when you have probable cause that there’s a crime.’

    Read moreRon Paul: Congress Has Been ‘Derelict In Giving So Much Power To This Government’ – NSA Whistleblower Snowden Gave Cash To His Campaign

    Clapper And Feinstein Get Caught Lying – Big Time

    Clapper And Feinstein Get Caught Lying – Big Time (Daily Paul, June 11, 2013):

    Feinstein and Clapper finally admit the government has been collecting ALL phone records for the last 7 years. The implications of a MASS SURVEILLANCE STATE:

    http://news.yahoo.com/clapper-clarifies-remarks-over-nsa-snooping-155751214.html

    They say that they won’t look at the records without a good reason.
    They previously lied and tried to cover up that they were collecting the phone records of all Americans, what makes you think we can trust them to not look at the data they have collected, whenever it suits the government to do so?

    Clapper denied collecting phone records on millions of Americans
    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/spy-chief-clapper-denies-misleading-congress-spying-americans-221024826.html

    The reason for the NSA’s Mass Surveillance programs is to suppress political dissent, they are not anti-terror measures.

    Read moreClapper And Feinstein Get Caught Lying – Big Time

    AND NOW: Off-Duty Cops Collect DNA Samples At Roadblocks

    Off-duty cops collect DNA samples at Alabama roadblocks (The Daily Caller, June 10, 2013):

    Off-duty cops in two counties in Alabama spent the weekend collecting saliva and blood samples from drivers at roadblocks.

    According to Lt. Freddie Turrentine with the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, drivers were asked to voluntarily offer samples of their saliva and blood for a study being conducted by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.

    The drivers were compensated for their samples.

    “They’ve got big signs up that says ‘paid volunteer survey’ and if they want to participate they pull over there and they ask them questions and if they are willing to give them a mouth swab they give them $10 and if they are willing to give them a blood sample they give them $50. And if they don’t do anything they drive off,” Turrentine explained to The Daily Caller.

    Read moreAND NOW: Off-Duty Cops Collect DNA Samples At Roadblocks

    Whistleblower Edward Snowden’s SECOND INTERVIEW To Hong Kong Paper: ‘I Am Not Here To Hide From Justice; I Am Here To Reveal Criminality’

    Ex-CIA operative wants to remain in Hong Kong


    Edward Snowden has spoken exclusively to the South China Morning Post

    Whistle-blower Edward Snowden tells SCMP: ‘Let Hong Kong people decide my fate’ (South China Morning Post, June 12, 2013):

    Edward Snowden says he wants to ask the people of Hong Kong to decide his fate after choosing the city because of his faith in its rule of law.

    The 29-year-old former CIA employee behind what might be the biggest intelligence leak in US history revealed his identity to the world in Hong Kong on Sunday. His decision to use a city under Chinese sovereignty as his haven has been widely questioned – including by some rights activists in Hong Kong.

    Snowden said last night that he had no doubts about his choice of Hong Kong.

    “People who think I made a mistake in picking Hong Kong as a location misunderstand my intentions. I am not here to hide from justice; I am here to reveal criminality,” Snowden said in an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post.

    “I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong’s rule of law,” he added.

    Snowden says he has committed no crimes in Hong Kong and has “been given no reason to doubt [Hong Kong’s legal] system”.

    “My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate,” he said.

    EVERY Market Is Rigged

    EVERY Market Is Rigged (Washington’s Blog, June 12, 2013):

    Currency Markets Are Rigged

    Bloomberg reports today:

    Traders at some of the world’s biggest banks manipulated benchmark foreign-exchange rates used to set the value of trillions of dollars of investments, according to five dealers with knowledge of the practice.

    Read moreEVERY Market Is Rigged

    Summarizing The Known Rigged Markets

    Summarizing The Known Rigged Markets (ZeroHedge, June 12, 2013):

    Following last night’s revelation that FX trading is the latest addition to the “rigged” column, here is a summary of the known market manipulation scandals (because it can be problematic keeping track of all by now):

    • Libor – interest rates (link)
    • ISDAfix – swaps (link)
    • Platts – oil prices (link)
    • WM/Reuters – FX (link)
    • High-Frequency Trading – equities (link)

    We also know that the Fed and world central banks are engaged in a full blown (and unprecedented) Treasury curve modeling exercise courtesy of both ZIRP (short-end) and QE (long-end), and that courtesy of some $12 trillion in extra liquidity in the past 5 years, stocks are at an artificial “weath effect” sugar high.

    Read moreSummarizing The Known Rigged Markets

    Europe’s € 500 BILLION Quasi-Quantitative Easing

    Europe’s EUR500 Billion Quasi-Quantitative Easing (ZeroHedge, June 12, 2013):

    Submitted by Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box, Five Eurozone countries now have loans for half a trillion Euros.

    These members of the Euro currency union are receiving loans from the one of two bailout funds which are financed by the other 12 Eurozone members. On top of that are the emergency loans from the International Monetary fund (IMF) and bilateral loans from the solvent countries to the bankrupt nations.

    Read moreEurope’s € 500 BILLION Quasi-Quantitative Easing

    Ex-NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake’s Advice To Edward Snowden: ‘Always Check Your Six’

    “My life was essentially destroyed”
    – Thomas Drake

    Ex-NSA Leaker’s Advice To Snowden: “Always Check Your Six” (ZeroHedge, June 12, 2013):

    “Be lawyered up to the max… find a place where it’s going to be that much more difficult for the US to make arrangements for his return… and and always check your six,” is the warning (advice) that Thomas Drake offers Edward Snowden, adding that, “it’s now validation of this vast, now systemic, industrial-scale leviathan surveillance system.”

    As Reuters reports, Drake is one of the few people who understands from personal experience what the NSA Whistleblower is going through – the 56-year-old was prosecuted under the Espionage Act in 2010 for allegedly revealing classified information about the agency’s sweeping warrantless wire-tapping program. The government later dropped all but a misdemeanor charge.

    “Always make sure you know what’s behind you,” he adds, “when you offer up information about the dark side of the surveillance state they don’t take too kindly to it.” Drake, whose life was “essentially destroyed,” is now a technical expert at an Apple store, but he still believes what he did was worth it, having no doubts: “Is freedom worth it? Is liberty worth it? Is not living in a surveillance society worth it? You’ve got to stand up and defend the rights and the freedoms that prevent that from actually happening.”

    Via Reuters,

    Thomas Drake is one of the few people who understands from personal experience what the future may hold for Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former NSA contractor who exposed the U.S. government’s top secret phone and Internet surveillance programs.

    His advice for Snowden: “Be lawyered up to the max and find a place where it’s going to be that much more difficult for the United States to make arrangements for his return,” Drake said. “And always check six, as we said when I used to be a flyer in the Air Force. Always make sure you know what’s behind you.”

    Drake, a 56-year-old former intelligence official at the National Security Agency, was prosecuted under the Espionage Act in 2010 for allegedly revealing classified information about the agency’s sweeping warrantless wire-tapping program. The government later dropped all but a misdemeanor charge.

    Read moreEx-NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake’s Advice To Edward Snowden: ‘Always Check Your Six’

    Crisis And Chaos Return To Greece Following National TV Shutdown

    Related info:

    IMF Says Another Greek Bailout Necessary

    Greece: Total Collapse In Pics – GDP Plunges To Year 2000 Levels – That Things Are Hopeless And Getting Worse Is An Understatement – Another Bailout Imminent

    Greece: Prostitution Soars By 150% – Prostitutes Lower Their Price As Low As 5 EUROS – Youth Unempoyment Hits 75% In Some Areas


    Crisis And Chaos Return To Greece Following National TV Shutdown (ZeroHedge, June 12, 2013):

    A week ago we joked that Greece was rapidly sliding into the “fourth world” (and had the photos to prove it). Well, today Equity Index provider MSCI took our joke and made it into something way too serious when overnight it made Greece the first developed nation ever to be downgraded into “emerging market” status. Not quite fourth world, but that too will come. However, what’s worse for Greece is that as we reported yesterday, the majority of Greeks have no way of learning about this following the governmental “temporary” shutdown of its one national TV prodier, ERT. Kathimerini followed up with news that ERT would be renamed to NERIT, the New Hellenic Radio Internet and Television – a state company owned by the public sector and regulated by the state, and relaunched by the end of August, however what matters to the public is that the vast majority of employees would likely be let go permanently.

    However, the biggest news out of Greece is that the events in the 24 hours have pushed the depressed country right back into crisis mode, with political bickering front and center (the opposition leader called the uncoordinated move “a coup” even as coalition partners blasted the broadcaster shutdown while Europe washed it hands), while the economic contraction is set to accelerate once more following what is certain to be another escalation in daily protests and riots. And who can blame them – with that last civilizational “premium” – free TV for all – gone, what else is there to do?

    From Reuters:

    Greece’s fragile government faced an internal revolt and fierce public protest on Wednesday over the sudden closure of state broadcaster ERT, hours after the humiliation of seeing its bourse downgraded to emerging market status. The twin setbacks, coupled with the derailing of a troubled privatization program, blew a hole in rising investor confidence that had prompted Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to declare the risk of a “Grexit” from the euro was dead and a “Greekovery” was under way.

    Read moreCrisis And Chaos Return To Greece Following National TV Shutdown

    Germany Most-Spied-On EU Country By US

    Germany most-spied-on EU country by US – leaked NSA report (RT, June 11, 2013):

    Germany appears to be the most snooped on EU country by the US, a map of secret surveillance activities by the National Security Agency (NSA) shows. EU officials are to question their US counterparts on data snooping in Europe.

    The color-coded map of secret surveillance activities by the NSA ranks countries according to how much surveillance they are currently undergoing – green for the least and red for the most watched.

    While all EU member states boast variant shades of green, Germany stands out, color-coded orange.

    Read moreGermany Most-Spied-On EU Country By US

    Ron Paul Warns Of Electronic Surveillance Back In …1984 (Video)

    Video of the Day: Ron Paul Warns of Electronic Surveillance back in…1984 (Liberty Blitzkrieg, June 10, 2013):

    There are three words that come to mind when I think of Ron Paul; principles, credibility and consistency.  Not only is the video below great because we get to see Dr. Paul speak on the Congressional floor thirty years younger, but also because he was adamantly criticizing civil liberties threats in the context of a Republican President, Ronald Reagan.  He warned us about what the NSA and other intelligence agencies are currently doing well before the internet became widespread.  The man is a statesman of the highest order. Definitely take the time to watch this short video.


    YouTube Added: 19.02.2011

    9/6/1984, C-SPAN

    Government Spying on Americans … And Then Giving Info To Giant Corporations

    Government Spying on Americans … and then Giving Info to Giant Corporations (Washington’s Blog, June 11, 2013):

    Big Banks and Other Corporate Bigwigs Benefit from Illegal Spying

    You’ve heard that the government spies on all Americans.

    But you might not know that the government shares some of that information with big corporations.

    Read moreGovernment Spying on Americans … And Then Giving Info To Giant Corporations

    Main Core (The Last Roundup): A List Of Millions Of Americans That Will Be Subject To Detention During Martial Law

    See also this article from May, 2008: The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE


    Main Core: A List Of Millions Of Americans That Will Be Subject To Detention During Martial Law (The American Dream, June 10, 2013):

    Are you on the list?  Are you one of the millions of Americans that have been designated a threat to national security by the U.S. government?  Will you be subject to detention when martial law is imposed during a major national emergency?  As you will see below, there is actually a list that contains the names of at least 8 million Americans known as Main Core that the U.S. intelligence community has been compiling since the 1980s.  A recent article on Washington’s Blog quoted a couple of old magazine articles that mentioned this program, and I was intrigued because I didn’t know what it was.  So I decided to look into Main Core, and what I found out was absolutely stunning – especially in light of what Edward Snowden has just revealed to the world.  It turns out that the U.S. government is not just gathering information on all of us.  The truth is that the U.S. government has used this information to create a list of threats to national security that the government would potentially watch, question or even detain during a national crisis.  If you have ever been publicly critical of the government, there is a very good chance that you are on that list.

    The following is how Wikipedia describes Main Core…

    Read moreMain Core (The Last Roundup): A List Of Millions Of Americans That Will Be Subject To Detention During Martial Law

    Is THIS The REAL Reason For The Government Spying On Americans?

    Is This the REAL Reason for the Government Spying On Americans? (Washington’s Blog, June 10, 2013):

    Are Emergency Plans Meant Only for Nuclear War the Real Justification for Spying?

    To understand the scope and extent of government spying on all Americans – and the reasons for such spying – you have to understand what has happened to our Constitutional form of government since 9/11.

    State of Emergency

    Read moreIs THIS The REAL Reason For The Government Spying On Americans?

    JPMorgan Vault Gold Drops By 28.4% Overnight, Slides To Fresh Record Low As Withdrawals Accelerate

    From the article:

    “At this pace, the world’s biggest gold vault located below 1 CMP, and just next to the Fed’s own gold vault, will be empty in about 1.5-2 months.”

    Got PHYSICAL gold?


    JPM Vault Gold Drops By 28.4% Overnight, Slides To Fresh Record Low As Withdrawals Accelerate (ZeroHedge, June 11, 2013):

    With a massive 6,208 (or 80% of the total in the entire Comex system) Customer Delivery issues outstanding against JPM so far in June alone, many have been wondering – how and when will the firm reconcile what is seemingly more demand for JPM vaulted gold than the firm has in its possession?

    While we still don’t have the answer, what we do know is that as of an hour ago when the Comex released its daily vault depository statistics, JPM has said goodbye to another 28.4% of all of its vaulted gold – the largest one day withdrawal since April 25, the result of the departure of 61.5% of its Eligible gold, as hundreds of thousands of registered ounces in the bast few weeks have seen warrant detachment.

    Read moreJPMorgan Vault Gold Drops By 28.4% Overnight, Slides To Fresh Record Low As Withdrawals Accelerate

    U.S. State Department Memo Reveals Cover-Ups, Halted Investigations

    State Department memo reveals possible cover-ups, halted investigations (CBS News, june 10, 2013):

    CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks.

    The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department’s security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases of misconduct on the part of the 70,000 State Department employees worldwide.

    CBS News’ John Miller reports that according to an internal State Department Inspector General’s memo, several recent investigations were influenced, manipulated, or simply called off. The memo obtained by CBS News cited eight specific examples. Among them: allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut “engaged in sexual assaults” on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards and the charge and that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail “engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries” — a problem the report says was “endemic.”

    The memo also reveals details about an “underground drug ring” was operating near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and supplied State Department security contractors with drugs.

    Read moreU.S. State Department Memo Reveals Cover-Ups, Halted Investigations