The Keystone Complex To The Rescue - 3

"How did our oil get under your soil ..."

We have finally received a lot of help from the main stream media (MSM) concerning our many complaints about the propaganda of fear and spying on Americans by Americans.

The Washington Post has begun a block buster series following a couple of years of research.

They expose some of MOMCOM's excesses in the field of spying ("intelligence"), showing that American spying, like the military, is out of control:

The investigation's other findings include:

* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.

* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.

* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings - about 17 million square feet of space.

* Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and waste. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S. cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks.

* Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year - a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.

(Washington Post). That only scratches the surface, the story is also that no one knows all about it or how much it costs, hence, it is out of control.

The Keystone Cops scenario cannot be fixed by quadrupling the number of Keystone Cops every few years, and in fact as the articles point out, it simply makes it much worse.

Fewer Keystone Cops is the better formula, especially at a time when millions of Americans need to be saved from losing homes, health care, and jobs.

We don't need to be saved from fear of the imaginary boogie man.

The next post in this series is here, the previous post is here.