One tiny little problem with the false bravado of Dick Cheney's torture program: Not only is torture illegal, torture simply doesn't work. I suspect he knows that, but just wants to be a sadistic bastard. Besides the sound bite of "I tortured to prevent another terrorist attack" goes over well with mean-spirited racists in the republican cult.
If the teabag party is willing to close government over healthcare, what chance does the US have to fix bigger fundamental problems?
That is to say, if republicans refuse to recognize the health care problem in American, much less offer a solution, do you think republicans who cheered torture in the ChimpCo regime recognize any of this as a problem?
Simply put, today's republican party is fascist. They like it this way. They are white. They think they will never, ever be harmed by the hate and discontent they create.
If Keystone is such a sweet deal why didn't Canada build the pipeline to Newfoundland or Vancouver? Because Canada knows XL is a crummy deal and they decided to screw America with the environmental disaster that looms.
What's the point of screwing Levison? Presumably he can't read Snowden's email. The Streisand Effect on the National Security Letter doesn't help the cause or move the football down the field. And finally, surely the NSA can gain something from the traffic to and from Lavabits servers.
So the speculative answer is the FBI leaned on Levison to either hand over his encryption keys or fold.
Can you imagine if Lavabits had shareholders that didn't want to lose their money?
One tiny little problem with the false bravado of Dick Cheney's torture program: Not only is torture illegal, torture simply doesn't work. I suspect he knows that, but just wants to be a sadistic bastard. Besides the sound bite of "I tortured to prevent another terrorist attack" goes over well with mean-spirited racists in the republican cult.
Let us be clear at to who is to blame.
If the teabag party is willing to close government over healthcare, what chance does the US have to fix bigger fundamental problems?
That is to say, if republicans refuse to recognize the health care problem in American, much less offer a solution, do you think republicans who cheered torture in the ChimpCo regime recognize any of this as a problem?
Simply put, today's republican party is fascist. They like it this way. They are white. They think they will never, ever be harmed by the hate and discontent they create.
If Keystone is such a sweet deal why didn't Canada build the pipeline to Newfoundland or Vancouver? Because Canada knows XL is a crummy deal and they decided to screw America with the environmental disaster that looms.
What's the point of screwing Levison? Presumably he can't read Snowden's email. The Streisand Effect on the National Security Letter doesn't help the cause or move the football down the field. And finally, surely the NSA can gain something from the traffic to and from Lavabits servers.
So the speculative answer is the FBI leaned on Levison to either hand over his encryption keys or fold.
Can you imagine if Lavabits had shareholders that didn't want to lose their money?
Because he felated the ChimpCo regime with an awesome oped and the Army needed a fall guy.