"In this century, a full-scale second "Defense Department," the Department of Homeland Security, was created. Around it has grown up a mini-version of the military-industrial complex, with the usual set of consultants, K Street lobbyists, political contributions, and power relations: just the sort of edifice that President Eisenhower warned Americans about in his famed farewell address in 1961. In the meantime, the original military-industrial complex has only gained strength and influence."Just the fascist name should have been enough to kill DHS.
"Meanwhile, the 17 members of the U.S. Intelligence Community – yes, there are 17 major intelligence outfits in the national security state – have been growing, some at prodigious rates. A number of them have undergone their own versions of corporatization, outsourcing many of their operations to private contractors in staggering numbers, so that we now have "capitalist intelligence" as well. With the fears from 9/11 injected into society and the wind of terrorism at their backs, the Intelligence Community has had a remarkably free hand to develop surveillance systems that are now essentially "watching" everyone – including, it seems, other branches of the government."I wonder who decided 17 is the best number.
Obama's FBI to rate news stories as positive and negative.
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