{"id":15518,"date":"2015-12-21T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15518"},"modified":"2015-12-21T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:09:33","slug":"cisa-just-another-example-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15518","title":{"rendered":"CISA: \u201cJust Another Example Of Corruption\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/12\/cisa-just-another-example-corruption.html\" target=\"_blank\">CISA: \u201cJust Another Example Of Corruption\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Last week, Congress passed CISA by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/12\/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats-sure-to-pass\/\">hiding it in the middle<\/a>\u00a0of a sure-to-pass spending bill, and Obama signed it into law \u2026 even though the Department of Homeland Security had previously said that the bill will\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/08\/even-the-department-of-homeland-security-says-the-cisa-cybersecurity-bill-will-hurt-security-and-destroy-privacy.html\">HURT national security and destroy privacy<\/a>\u00a0(numerous experts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/oti\/massive-coalition-of-security-experts-companies-and-civil-society-groups-urge-obama-to-veto-cisa-3\/\">agreed<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>And \u2013 just like with previous spying laws \u2013 the government has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20150729\/07133731786\/reminder-when-ron-wyden-says-theres-secret-interpretation-law-everyone-should-pay-attention.shtml\">secret interpretation<\/a>\u00a0of CISA which will make it even\u00a0<em>worse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So why was the bill passed?<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/10\/government-corruption-tops-list-of-americans-fears.html\">American public is starting to learn<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/08\/politicians-from-both-sides-of-the-aisle-corruption-has-destroyed-america.html\">politicians from both side of the aisle admit<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/06\/systemic-corruption-has-destroyed-america.html\">corruption has thoroughly destroyed America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-level NSA whistleblower in history \u2013 William Binney \u2013 the high-level NSA executive who\u00a0<em>created<\/em>\u00a0the agency\u2019s mass surveillance program for digital information, 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a \u201clegend\u201d within the agency, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, and managed thousands of NSA employees \u2013\u00a0 explains that corruption is what\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/04\/vulnerability-terrorism-corruption-issue.html\">motivating mass surveillance against the American people \u2026 and it\u2019s what\u2019s making us vulnerable to terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s Blog asked Binney what he thought of CISA, and he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is just another example of the White House, leadership (if you want to call it that) in Congress, the intelligence committees, and the intelligence agencies manipulating the system to get what they want (more money and more knowledge to control).<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, CISA would not stand on it\u2019s own; so, they had to sneak it through buried inside a massive funding bill at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Again, we see just another example of corruption in our government in Washington DC. They don\u2019t have the courage or backbone to stand for what they want out in the open where there can be an honest debate like we are suppose to have in a democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CISA: \u201cJust Another Example Of Corruption\u201d Last week, Congress passed CISA by\u00a0hiding it in the middle\u00a0of a sure-to-pass spending bill, and Obama signed it into law \u2026 even though the Department of Homeland Security had previously said that the bill will\u00a0HURT national security and destroy privacy\u00a0(numerous experts\u00a0agreed). And \u2013 just like with previous spying laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4568,577,584,11169,746,765,1796,865,5510,877,3024],"class_list":["post-15518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cisa","tag-nsa","tag-obama","tag-spending-bill","tag-spying","tag-surveillance","tag-us-congress","tag-washington","tag-washingtons-blog","tag-white-house","tag-william-binney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15519,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518\/revisions\/15519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}