NSA update
In response to the Wired article I mentioned yesterday about the NSA/AT&T spying nexus, Amanda Marcotte posted a response this morning. Here’s the clincher:
This isn’t just the government or AT&T invading your privacy. This is part of a larger tendency of those in power to refuse to distinguish between corporate and government power. If AT&T has set up a room only for the use of government spies, then not only are they undermining your basic right not to be searched without a warrant but they are basically acting like an arm of the government. I no longer see any reason to refrain from describing a BushCo policy like domestic spying as a fascist policy. [emphasis added]
I would like to be able to disagree with her assessment of fascism, but she’s right. Under Bush, the US is no longer the nation it once was.