Carter’s previous statements about the Snowden affair were mildly supportive: he told CNN he thought "the secrecy that has been surrounding this invasion of privacy has been excessive," and that Snowden’s bringing the secret surveillance of Americans "to the public notice has probably been, in the long term, beneficial." Yet this new statement goes way beyond that: it is a sweeping condemnation of the current regime. That a former US President would say such a thing has got to be the scariest public pronouncement I’ve heard since the Watergate era. What’s even scarier: Carter is right. America is no longer a democracy in the sense we have traditionally meant it. This is really the essence of what Snowden has revealed. The various surveillance programs he’s exposed – PRISM, "Boundless Informant," Tempora, the telephony "meta-data" dragnet, etc. – are all tools necessary for the construction of what can only be called a police state.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 03:53:49 +0000
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