Imagine a world where the sitting president of the United States has a national intelligence apparatus giving him advice that his political opponent, and those who support that opponent, should be considered "Domestic terrorists." Then accept that we don't have to imagine it, because this is the reality of the current situation.
Can you imagine the apoplectic "Threat to Democracy" media if these same words of advice were said by a President Trump group about supporters of Barack Obama.
Elevator Speech: The Patriot Act turned the intel surveillance radar from foreign searches for terrorists to domestic searches for terrorists.
The electronic surveillance system, that was originally created to monitor threats from abroad, was retooled to monitor threats inside our country.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms, so that only their political opposition became the target of this new national security system.
The problems we face now as a country are directly an outcome of two very distinct points that were merged by Barack Obama.
The post 9/11 monitoring of electronic communication of American citizens; and Obama's team creating a fine-tuning knob that it focused on the politics of the targets.
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