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There is no terrorist threat: The feds want you to think there is, compliant media goes along

There is no terrorist threat: The feds want you to think there is, compliant media goes along

August 9, 2013 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Salon

“Chatter” from “affiliates” causes a “crisis,” while media reports nonsense generated to justify NSA surveillance Summertime, and the chicanery is easy. The Obama administration’s latest rendering of our invisible but eternal “terrorist threat,” I mean. After a week of ghost…

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