Top NSA Officials: U.S. Has Turned Into Stasi Germany or Soviet Union
Senior NSA executive Thomas Drake is an expert on spying in Stasi Germany … having studied it for years. Drake told Washington’s Blog that the U.S. has adopted the Stasi model: “Collect it all, know it all” [the NSA's model] is actually the Stasi model. It’s not just know everything; we have to be able to keep everything that we want to know, even if we don’t know it yet. It’s a collect it all first mentality … and then we’ll get to know it all. I call it “feeding the beast”. "I keep shuddering because I’m intimately familiar with the East German surveillance state mentality."
A lieutenant colonel for the Stasi East German’s – based upon his experience – agrees. And German Chancellor Angela Merkel – who grew up in Stasi Germany – says the NSA is exactly the same. Top American constitutional experts also say that the Obama and Bush administration are worse than the Stasi East Germans.
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