[THESTATE] The chairman of the S.C. Republican Party resigned Saturday to take a job with the Republican National Committee.
The state party's executive committee unanimously elected Matt Moore to replace Chad Connelly as party chairman. Moore, 31, is thought to the youngest state Republican Party chairman in the country.
Connelly said the national party will announce his new job next week. He described it as "bold, expansive outreach, voter registration, mobilization, activation."
"It's going to be significant," Connelly said, adding the party plans to do a "national rollout" this week. "I would not have left the best non-paying job in America if it wasn't serious."
New chairman Moore was the party's executive director until January, when he resigned to become state director for new U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-North Charleston.
Moore resigned from Scott's staff to become party chairman -- a position that, historically, has been unpaid. But the party's finance committee voted unanimously to pay Moore a salary, the amount to be determined.
"I am honored and humbled to serve South Carolina Republicans as state chairman and thank the state Executive Committee for their trust," Moore said in a news release. "I pledge to continue our party's work to promote prosperity through freedom and opportunity for all Americans."
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Too many things about this episode have a smell. Snowden first runs to Hong Kong: hello, everyone, that is now known as China. He then chooses the odious, venomous, kooky Glenn Greenwald as his point man, and the hard-left Guardian as his venue, for revealing the information. It appears he never tried appropriate whistleblower channels. It appears that the Post and the Times took a pass. Wonder why?
I'll wait for more information to come out before I label him a hero. At the present time my instincts say that he's more interested in harming our country than he is in informing us about a dangerous problem. He comes across more as a Julian Assange, complete with Messiah-like complex, or as a uber-Bradley Manning. Neither Assange nor Bradley are heroes in any way, and that the same crowd is now comparing Snowden to these two tells me everything I need to know.
But here's the bottom line: when the Bush administration was pushing similar intel gathering programs, it wasn't at the same time using the IRS to attack its (many) political enemies. How many times did Cindy Sheehan get audited? None. How many progressive organizations were stymied in their applications for tax exemptions? None. How many times did Medea Benjamin get her passport yanked after flying off to a country that was hating on us? Zero.
In other words, we had some basic trust that the government, always bumbling and stumbling, at least understood the basic difference between right and wrong, and was trying to gather intel in an honest attempt to protect us. George Bush may have been inept but he had a decent moral core.
Perhaps the people at NSA still understand and believe in right and wrong. But what about Champ and his people? What about the Democrats who are running in 2016 (Hillary, Warren, Biden, etc). How many of them will respect the use of intel and not use government as a tool to strike at their perceived political enemies?
That trust is fragile. Now it's been strained and may be broken.
That is why so many people believe PRISM is automatically wrong, when perhaps it isn't. That is why no one really believes that the NSA is gathering data just to keep terrorists from attacking us -- after all, we've seen what the IRS is doing. And the lead person in that caper has just been promoted and runs the IRS office in charge of Obamacare.
Mr. Snowden and Mr. Greenwald are not heroes. Greenwald is a nasty, bigoted, hard-core leftist who wants America 'transformed' into a socialist (and perhaps Bolshevik) state. He's not my hero. Mr. Snowden either is a tool or is a traitor. I'm not sure which is worse this morning.
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I share the same concerns Besoeker. We need to collect intel--that's a given. There also needs to be checks and balances built into the system that make the government and workers responsible to the people who put them there--namely us. Presently, I have little trust for the present administration and its agenda. Bureaucracies, once built have a way of expanding and expanding. At the same time, the right hand of such a bureaucracy tends to not know what the left-hand is doing. The mission message often gets distorted and incoherent. If the government is spying wholesale on the American public, that information could be used by an administration (Republican or Democrat) in partisan and thuggish ways for all sorts of nefarious purposes. A nation that is blind to such machinations can get into trouble as did Germany prior to and during WWII. Somehow, there has to be a moral compass that guides what our government does.
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Have not validated, but read this morning that the USAF has suspended Security Clearance Periodic Re-Investigations (PR's)...due to dreaded "sequester cutbacks". I wonder wen young Eddies PR was coming due ?
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I also smelled something nasty when I read he fled to Hong Kong. Not New Zealand, Australia or some other ally but China. Nobody has denied what he said was wrong either, which seems odd to me. I really don't know what to make of it but something about this whole thing is strange.
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No extradition treaty in Hong Kong, and the $$ ammount paid by the Guardian must have been big.
Too bad he will accidently fall down the stairs some day and break his neck. TSK
Posted by: Yosemite Sam ||
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Hey Big Daddy DIRNSA, those intrusive "lifestyle" polygraphs sure are effective, eh? Morons. Good old-fashioned hard work in security pays off, trusting in pseudoscience does not.
/petpeeve-aired
This fella is awfully young to be having a ricin heart attack. Jus sayin.
As for this "hero", this one strikes me as naive. Seems the rot at CIA set in at NSA, and this kid got an eye full, and did what his generation has been trained to do: spill it to the press and intarwebz. Unlike Asshanger in the Wiki leaks, this spill isnt getting people killed - only political damage. I wish more people would wake the hell up, especially those on the inside. I pray all us old fogeys cant be the only ones remaining that apolitically remember the mission and remember our Constitutional oath - and act on it, with a decisive No when needed.
In some ways, I can't say as I blame the kid, if people and things have gotten as bad as they seem in Big Daddy's house. Now I know how those old timers felt when the Nixon crap (and its aftermath) swept the intelligence services. Seems they need to learn that all over again. I wonder what ever happened to dissolve the security directives, and other laws and executive orders that put hard limits on collecting against "US Persons"... BClinton let them rot, Bush weakened them in the rush after 9/11 and Champ seems to believe more is better, in terms of government intrusion into citizens lives.
Black helicopter time: Fast Eddie had only paced the halls of NSA for a few months. Could his former employer sent him over to conflict their growing cyber programme ?
[Breitbart] Amid the revelations that the National Security Agency has been secretly monitoring the records of millions of phone calls across the country via telephone service provider Verizon, Congress is concerned that the NSA's actions may have also captured phone calls of lawmakers and their staffers, lovers, and stock brokers. It should be noted that Verizon is one of the main service providers to government issued Blackberries members and their staff use to communicate with one another. No longer just the little people eh? They're coming after us now.
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CongressCritters never like discovering that odious legislation also applies to them. I can recall a couple of times that they have been taken aback by this same revelation.
But don't worry guys, we need your emails to protect us from the "Terrorists".
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This is a huge popcorn event. Now every person caught in some sort of torrid affair can blame the NSA for leaking it. How does the supream court communicate in private and their personal lives are now bait for the press.
The press now knows this info is out there. How long will it be until this stuff gets leaked, or how long have the leaks been going on? Lets say there is a press release that says republican candidate X has ties to terrorist or unsavory people. Do the FBI need to get a warrant to see his past email and phone conversations or can they get a secret one? They now have a data base to go to that is outside of going to verison or google. This will be fun....
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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What, concerned somebody might want to tap the Senate Minority Leader?
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Being told not to use milnet to transmit stuff falls under normal C&C authority. Being told not to listen to information on whats going on falls under Unlawful Orders. It qualifies for an Article 138 complaint.
The posting the other day about a NCO being told what he could read or not read, also falls under Article 138. It's a personal nuke sort of action in that its a career ender for both parties. Take the bastards with you. Trading a pawn for a bishops isn't good play.
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What is Obama going to do next; classify the scandal news and make it inaccessible? Is the MSM starting to turn and resemble reporters rather than apologists for Champ?
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What is Obama going to do next; classify the scandal news and make it inaccessible?
Uh, yeah. That's what you call "executive privilege". He already used it for Fast and Furious. Issa never could get to the bottom of that scandal because Obama stonewalled it.
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The most assuredly way of guaranteeing troops doing something is by telling them not to do it.
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The news is based on presumably Classified information, and may even include copies or quotations from classified information - if viewed on a government computer it would constitute a security 'event' with all the associated hassle (at best), so a warning to 'not go there' is good advice. They are presumably free to read the Guardian or Washington Post in analog form or on their own computer.
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Why is it ALWAYS the USAF that is reported as going off the rails? IQ-Envy? (just kidding 'soeker!). Before getting all worked up, tho, I'd wanna see the actual order....
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