(20 min.)
Ray includes inside stories about how the ethos at NSA (once governed by the “First Commandment” there: “Thou shalt not eavesdrop on Americans without a court warrant”) crumbled. All it took was a President who considered the Constitution just a “piece of paper;” dark-side Dick Cheney, and martinet generals thirsting for yet another star, a Congress that can see no evil but “the bad guys;” and Presto! – intrusive eavesdropping that would put the Gestapo and the East German Stasi to shame.
Our generals, part of the upper crust, know what’s best for us. They need to tell us the “least untruthful” lies, you see, because they have decided we can’t handle the truth. Ray draws parallels with Germany during the 1930s and ends quoting Dr. King: “There is such a thing as too late.”
And there is.