{"id":10053,"date":"2013-06-07T17:51:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T00:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2013-06-09T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T00:26:05","slug":"context-is-everything-maddow-on-how-we-arrived-at-our-current-surveillance-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10053","title":{"rendered":"Context is Everything: Maddow on How We Arrived at Our Current Surveillance State [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pullquote pqRight\"><!--'There is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows.' - Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO), 3\/15\/12--><\/span>In the wake of the latest revelations of our massive, secret, invasive national security surveillance state, I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10051\">trying to remind folks<\/a> how we got here, and how it was that many on both the Right and Left &#8212; though far more robustly on the Right &#8212; not only allowed for these outrageous intrusions into the private lives of Americans, but actually <i>supported<\/i> them, a great deal, for well over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The hypocrisy of some, particularly those on the Right, to be &#8220;outraged&#8221; about it all now, is laughable.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, for some of the very important context and backstory about how we got to this place &#8212; and how, in fact, some Democrats tried (and failed) to reign in at least the most unlawful excesses of it (even while some also supported it &#8212; talking to you, Sen. Feinstein &#038; Sen.\/President Obama) &#8212; Rachel Maddow&#8217;s piece from last night&#8217;s show is extremely helpful and educational&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc2734fc\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=52127392&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc2734fc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=52127392&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the latest revelations of our massive, secret, invasive national security surveillance state, I&#8217;ve been trying to remind folks how we got here, and how it was that many on both the Right and Left &#8212; though far more robustly on the Right &#8212; not only allowed for these outrageous intrusions into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,192,405,299,272,223,513,107,61,301,441,300,415,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-democrats","category-dept-of-defense","category-dept-of-justice","category-dhs","category-national-security","category-nsa","category-patriot-act","category-rachel-maddow","category-republicans","category-ronald-reagan","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}