Ted Rall for November 11, 2013
Transcript:
Barack Obama: NSA's dishfire lets me search years of text messages. Tracfin shows gigabytes of credit card purchases. Xkeyscore gets me into everyone's emails. Tempora listens to phone calls, Facebook entries, and internet browsing histories are there too muscular taps directly into Google and Yahoo Data Centers. Turkney totalitarianism it's so easy it feels like I'm cheating! Hitler: Dude! If only I'd had this stuff in my day! Finding my victims would've been a cinch! 'course, the actual killing is always hard. Barack Obama: Ha! Have I shown you my killer robot drones?
Exactly so. The Nazis were efficient, but they would have been much more so with access to NSA-like technology. Inefficiency is good when it comes to government power.