At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting held to acquire details on the National Security Agency’s “mass surveillance” programs, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) referred to the US, Canada and Mexico as the “Homeland” at an NSA Senate briefing, presenting a “map” that united the three nations as one.
During the briefing, Feinstein, an “unabashed and adamant” defender of the NSA’s surveillance programs, who serves as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was defending the NSA’s “data-collection” programs when she pulled out a “world map” that identified North America as the “Homeland”.
The newly declassified diagram showed “terror activities” that the NSA had allegedly “disrupted” throughout the world.
But while Europe, Africa and Asia were correctly identified by their “continent’s” name, countries of North America were all encompassed as a new “mega” nation.
“Now, the NSA has produced and declassified a chart, which I’d like to make available to all members. It has the 54 total (terror) events,” Feinstein said. “And it shows the events disrupted… 13 in the Homeland, 25 in Europe, five in Africa and 11 in Asia.”
Although it might be easy to “brush” off the map as nothing more than a “mistake” made by a staffer, a writer suggested that it might “indicate” a potential NSA attempt at tallying “thwarted attacks” in North America to make “anti-terrorism” efforts in the US look more successful.
“Normally, this would be written off as a design goof, as one of the NSA’s (newly adept) graphics guys using a little more light blue than he ought,” writes the Atlantic’s Philip Bump. “This being the NSA, we’re not inclined to offer that benefit of the doubt. Is this a way of blending in Canadian and Mexican terror activity disruptions (which, we’ll remind you, is different from actual plots interrupted) to give a larger sense of the NSA’s success at halting terrorism within our borders?”
Whatever the reason for the NSA’s creation of the “Homeland”, the spy agency has already been “condemned” for failing to respect the “sovereignty” of other nations through its extensive “data-collection” efforts.
That being said, is this NSA‘s way of “blending” in Canadian and Mexican “terror activity” disruptions to give a larger sense of the NSA’s success at “halting” terrorism within our borders?
I don’t and can’t know, of course, since the information about almost all of these 54 events is “classified.”
Just know that the “homeland” is safe — “be it Tampa, Toronto, or Tijuana” — and that is all “thanks” to NSA.
Upon closer “examination” of the map it appears the blue also includes “Central American” countries south of Mexico?
Why not? Let’s combine North and Central America all into the “US Homeland.”
This way we won’t have to “worry” anymore about “Immigration and Drug” issues or lack of “grateful” voters at the polls in 2016.
As to “terrorist” threats or attacks. There are “none!”
The American media is trying to stir up fear again, about a significant terrorist threat, but we all know better.
President Barack Hussein Obama has “assured” us repeatedly for years now that Al Qaeda has been defeated, due to our electing him “twice” as our Commander-in-Chief!
Sure, once in a while some “idiot” will do something stupid like make a “movie” that makes fun of Muhammad, and of course the Muslims get all “riled” up.
Can you “blame” them? Of course not since that was our “fault”, not theirs.
And our President has been celebrating the start of Ramadan with Muslims by sending money, tanks, fighter planes and attack ships to Egypt.
Why would Al Qaeda have anything “against” us when we “support” those terrorism activities?
I mean, come on. Would Obama be off at Camp David “playing” golf with his friends if there was any “chance” of terrorism actually occurring?
No, of course not since he left people in control in his absence that know how to contact him if necessary, say, if a city gets blown up or anything.
Which, of course, would “never” happen, since there is “no more” terrorist threats.
We need to “just” relax, and do our best to “emulate” our President.
True, most of us “can’t” afford to take ten or twelve “vacations” a year that “cost” tens of millions of dollars each, but we can certainly take an “hour or two” off from working every “once” in a while.
After all, we’re “safe” now, what with the CIA and NSA keeping a close “watch” on everything anybody “says or does”, and with our health now being “assured” due to the future implementation of “ObamaCare.”
What do we have to worry about?
It’s a glorious time to be “alive” in the US Homeland. We’re “safe, secure and racially and health wise protected.”
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Overheard on the street
“Earths newest continent. Welcome to the Homeland, Mexico and Canada!” wrote Twitter user Kat Capps.
“Are Canadians losing their sovereignty?” tweeted user Kevin King.
“We did it! Canada is now part of the American ‘homeland,’” tweeted Canada.com
