It’s a mid-sized story on Drudge, the video is with Glenn Beck who couldn’t even hold his job at Fox, and it is obviously a zero story across the media in the US or here, but still this does have to make you think. The article title is, “Obama Secret Service Agent: ‘It’s Worse Than People Know… and I’m Not Trying to Scare You Either'”. C’mon, who’d be scared by this:
Dan Bongino has protected numerous Presidents over his career, including President Obama. He has been within ear-shot of many a discussion in the Oval Office, but up until this administration has stayed out of the lime light. Apparently, however, the activities of this administration are so abhorrent that he could no longer keep quiet.
There is a movie I’m going to miss about a White House butler who served across a number of administrations but now it is a secret service agent who has served in a number of administrations who is trying to tell us something no one wants to hear. He’s apparently written a book for which no one is seeking the movie rights and intends to run for Congress, so immediately it will be possible to ignore it all as a self-interested account to get a bit of traction. But still, he does say what he says, and I am still conscious that the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court changed his vote in the middle of writing a decision to bring the Affordable Care Act down. Think about that as you read the following:
You give the government information and it will be abused. It is not a matter of if it’ll be abused, it’s only a matter of when…
When the line between the personal self and the public self… when that line is determined by the government that keeps your information in a trove for release any time they need it, how are you free?
..the bottom line is, having worked inside the government, it will be abused. It is only a matter of time.
…We are all doing something wrong. The catch is not ‘if’ we’re doing something wrong. It is ‘are your private wrongs impacting on my civil liberties?’ If not, the government has no business in your life… it’s a red herring…
If you’re not doing something wrong? The question is only whether your private wrongs that have no effect on anyone else become exposed for the government’s benefit.
…It’s only a matter of time before someone slaps an email on your desk from fifteen years ago… and says ‘look what we got against you.’
He describes the fantastic array of impeachable offenses by the Obama administration as a “fog of scandal”. It’s like Stalin’s line about one death is a tragedy but a million deaths are a statistic. The number of scandals is now so large each seems to push the others from the front page and limit our ability to focus on the totality of what is being done.
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