I just finished watching a documentary, A Good American, on Amazon Prime, one of the foci of which was a worker for the National Security Agency. He developed through his own initiative a way to track meta data from around the world to identify potential problems. Being a good American, he did not include meta data from U.S. citizens and the like to preserve their privacy rights.
But for his competition in the NSA, his approach had a problem. It was too cheap to implement and since it didn’t involve huge contracts for external contractors, many former and current employees of the NSA worked for such contractors, it was discouraged and downright sabotaged. Nobody was going to get rich implementing his approach and it was essentially complete in any case.
After 9/11, a suspicious official asked the team in charge of their banned effort to scan all the data collected by the NSA to see if the NSA missed anything. It took a day, day and a half but not only did they find evidence of the 9/11 plot, but they also identified the plotters and much more information that hadn’t come out yet.
The fates of people who stand in the way of corrupt officials getting rich was predictable but when the hammer fell upon this small team of good Americans, it was heart wrenching.
Donald Trump, Mr. President Corrupt Asshole the First, is busy knocking the pins out from under this country, but he is not the one that put our country on shaky enough ground for him to do the damage that has been done. You will see quite a lineup of corrupt assholes preceding him. Watch the video and be prepared to be pissed off, very pissed off.
Uncommon Sense 