Wes Clark on NSA spying: "Most people know it's been going on all along." (wink, wink)

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"Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, said Obama certainly was angered by Snowden's classified leaks that disclosed the extent of secret U.S. programs to collect phone records and details of foreign computer use as resources to help track terrorist plots.

However, Clark told CNN that the U.S. programs were similar to surveillance programs elsewhere, and the leaks were unlikely to provide an advantage for anyone.

"I don't think people are going to stop using the Internet or stop making cell phone calls because of Snowden," Clark said, adding that "most people know it's been going on all along."

In the end, he said, "Edward Snowden is going to disappear from the pages of history.""

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/politics/obama-snowden/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[pomkrazy]

1. . Wes Clark on NSA spying: "Most people know it's been going on all along." (wink, wink)

Well i didn't know it was going on..and why is the us government spying on me you know Bush started and Obama is worst than Bush

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2. "Yeah they're breaking the law, but I don't think anyone really cares."

Wes Clark is a corporate tool.

[KittyWampus]

3. He most certainly isn't.

[DonViejo]

8. I know for a fact it has been going on since before...

1972, when I was with the Army Security Agency. Every one bragged that the antenna located on the military base I was stationed at (in Southeast Asia) could pick up a cabby talking in NYC. I also know these type antenna existed on other ASA/NSA/CIA bases throughout the world...even here, in the U.S.

[The Link]

4. Wes who?

[adric mutelovic]

5. Wes Clark's polling firm should disclose its findings

I'd love to see the details.

PDF?

[burnodo]

6. so once again, even though EVERYBODY KNEW, there seems to be some kind of controversy

I guess I don't understand the nature and operational immediacy of non-secret secrets

[Savannahmann]

7. Then why is Snowden charged with spying?

If everyone knew it, then it could not have been top secret, and he could not have let the information that everyone knew about out of the bag. Seems a strange justification to me given that the Government is working around the clock to get Snowden back and has gone to such lengths to prohibit anyone in the military from reading the information.

[adric mutelovic]

9. To the extent that "everyone" is aiding and abetting Snowden,

Do you and I and does my mom and her grandfather think we committed a crime?

[KittyWampus]

10. because he stole documents that belong to the US Govt.

[Savannahmann]

11. According to Gen. Clark

On programs that everyone knew about. How do you rate such things top secret? If everyone knows that the sun rises in the East, can you classify it as top secret? Everyone knows it, so according to Clark, we could.

Don't just accept, question.