Security contractors breached as a result of an unsecured WiFi at their offices. Yes. Too much has been outsourced to folks whose only interest is the efficiency of the sales, billing, and collection departments.

I wouldn't worry about that too much, Tarheel. It's not as if half of the national security state requires the level of secrecy it demands anyway. It's merely the current best and easiest way to eliminate any oversight or accountability of graft and corruption. You don't need to know what's being done, citizen, only that it's accomplished for your absolute safety.

Although in the USA 50,000 people per year are killed on the highways and a million have died by firearms since 2001, September 11th meant that we had to completely destroy our way of life and grow-out of quaint and childish ideas of liberty and freedom.

It had to be done in order to protect us and invade 2 countries to destroy a clutch of fanatical goatherds. Poor, hopeless slobs, with nothing to gain or lose, who were probably way more lucky than they were skilled or devious.

It is in the nature of Westboro Baptist Church to get attention.

The good Reverend and most of his family are litigators and lawyers by trade and are in fact 90% of their congregation. They know exactly when they are inside or outside of the law. Pimping their attention-whoredom plays right into their greasy hands.

Acquiring even more “information” may simply overwhelm the system and the people.

Do you think the analysis is done by people exclusively? Why, you might say, it should take thousands of years to sift through all of this information! Not really. Type "COINTELPRO" into Google, look at how long it takes to get nearly a million hits.

It seems that computers are, in some ways, far more efficient and sophisticated at pattern recognition and collecting data than you or I.

I guess that was his beef, that he wasn’t being treated the way he wanted to be treated.

Just like poor Bill’s female producer's reaction to him informed her via telephone he would take a "falafel [sic] thing and I'd put it on your pussy" while showering with her.

She sued him for sexual harrassment.

Poor, poor Bill.

These scorched-earth policies can only work for so long. Another few million people out of work and home is maybe nothing to those who now implement these tactics. Eventually a tipping point will be reached and Americans won't care for what one party blames the other. They will seek to have those, who have collectively made them suffer, suffer far worse than have they.

People with nothing to lose, have nothing to fear.

Sounding liberal is what Obama is best at. That and being a islamo-socialist straw man for our corporate overseers.

Hey, everyone here is aware that this incident has raised the ire of Anonymous?

I do not agree with vigilante justice, because the innocent are often swept up with the guilty. Of course, some argue that if the law does its job, people don't feel the need to be vigilantes. Yet it is difficult to argue that the boys on the team (and those who shield them from accountability) shouldn't have their lives ruined by videos such as this:

A cheer-leading bystander's phone-recorded confession

(Warning: the linked video contains strong language and utter dehumanization of the girl/victim.)

Apparently, Anonymous says they have hacked all of the personal information of the team members and their phones and is releasing incriminating material to the internet, which started last week.

Chris Hayes addressed "equal opportunity" in his book Twilight of the Elites, which was rather good. He theorizes that wherever so-called equal opportunity flourishes, so soon does cheating and gaming of the system. As soon as participants are winning they seek ways to pull up the ladder afterward, or help just their family and pals. Thus circumventing any meritocracy and destroying the "equal opportunity". It has a lot of explanatory power, imho.

I think the solution he proposes is thus If you truly want equality of opportunity, you should strive for equality of outcome.

Yeah, it's, like, if you see a fire burning somewhere inside a school, the best idea is to start several other small fires. That way there will be nothing left to burn for the original fire!

Louie Gohmert is just about the dumbest sumbitch in elected office.

Wow, the HSBC has probably facilitated more demonstrable harm, violence and murder, to the West on a scale beyond even the wildest dreams of even the most fervid, panting anti-American zealot. Maybe the HSBC executives should just be declared saints (certainly not martyrs!) for the Jihad?

Either that or loyal Al Qaeda members should just try to get HSBC jobs? That would bring desolation to the Great Satan faster than any suicide bomb or IED!