Thom Hartmann & Dana Priest: Top Secret America

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 08:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1ExFQi0z_M   Posted on YouTube: September 09, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 102   Posted on DU: September 09, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 815

 
Dana Priest, Washington Post, joins Thom Hartmann. This weekend will be a time of reflection for the United States. It will be the ten year anniversary of 9/11 - and a chance for all of us to look back at the last decade and ask the question, "Have we handled things the right way?" There's no question this nation is fundamentally different today that it was ten years ago. There's an unprecedented fear and mistrust of Muslims gripping the nation - causing many of us forget exactly what religious freedom in America means. There are two costly wars still raging in the Middle East - disastrous off-chutes of our military response to what 19 terrorist hijackers did on that September morning. And there's the new security state apparatus - an unbelievably costly and intrusive machine complete with Michael Chertoff X-Ray porno scanners in our airports - warrantless wiretaps and e-mail snoopers in our homes - and a covert military wing of secret prisons and drone strikes all around the world - that illustrates just how much our nation's definition of privacy - and in particular warfare - has drastically changed since 9/11.

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[nineteen50]

1. Using violence to fight violence is creating violence and the blowback

is violence. Just like killing people to stop people from
killing people is killing people. I'm getting dizzy.

[izquierdista]

2. Maybe I'll live long enough....

to see these "ripples" come back and drown the people who made them.


Might be a long time.