A troubling report on CNN’s Outfront with Erin Burnett says that economists are beginning to question whether the economic data coming out of the Trump administration is accurate/reliable.
#BREAKING: 🔥Erin: "There are now growing questions as to whether the economic data that we are even getting from the [Trump] administration, from the U.S. govt, which is the gold standard for data that people TRUST around the world…they are wondering if it's actually accurate.… pic.twitter.com/7LYp7aDoia
As host Erin Burnett correctly points out, economists around the world regard the economic data coming out of the U.S., as the gold standard, in large part due to their belief that it’s free from political manipulation.
If U.S. numbers can’t be trusted anymore, as this report suggests, it is bound to affect the U.S. economy negatively in key sectors that rely on that “gold standard” perception. I think we can all agree that regardless of what political party is in power in the United States, economic data must remain independent.
Bombshell report on the 04/30/25 edition of the Rachel Maddow Show (citing the NY times) says that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is amassing massive amounts of people’s private data from various government agencies in an effort to create a central database that could potentially be used/abused to create “dossiers” of political opponents of President Trump.
Yours Truly captured part of Maddow’s commentary in the tweet below (X below if you like🙄😂).
#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: "We know that @DOGE is NOT about saving money…the one thing they are CONSISTENTLY doing, and doing aggressively as possible…is that they are aggregating DATA…from what appears to be EVERY agency in the government…WHY are they doing that? This… pic.twitter.com/Pi674Wddpi
NY Times’ Julia Angwin told host Maddow that this [dossier politics] is very common in authoritarian countries, especially China. She specifically said: “China is sort of the example that does this. They have these master files that they have on every citizen, everything that they’ve ever done, it’s called social credit score, and they use it to punish dissent.”
Importantly, and quite scaringly, Angwin says compared to other Western nations, America’s privacy laws are the worst equipped to dealing with the dangers of such a centralized database. She adds that our system was designed based on this notion that government officials will always be acting in good faith, and thus tread carefully re the private data of citizens.
If this reporting holds up, it looks like America is gearing up for the biggest civil liberties fight of her 400 year existence. I hate to be a Debbie Downer here, but given since the passage of the Patriot Act right after 09/11, we’ve witnessed increasing encroachments to our civil liberties, and privacy in particular.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, advances in technology have for all intents and purposes, rendered the 4thamendment moot. Consequently, there’s no privacy to defend. Congress has had numerous opportunities to deal with the problem, but abdicated at every turn. Too late to solve the problem now.🤷.
I’ve been quite consistent about this issue. This was me ranting and raving about very issue way back in 2019😳👇When some big time MSMer starts bandwagoning over the issue, make sure to remind them that Yours Truly was already crying about this in 2019…when MSM thought it was just another “conspiracy theory”.🙄
Here's the question you NEVER hear posed/addressed by legal eagles on cable TV—With all this 👆👆#BigBrother#surveillance infiltrating EVERY ASPECT of our private lives, is the 4th amendment OBSOLETE?
Rep Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) appeared on CNN’s The Source show (07/12/23) where she discussed among other things, her questioning of FBI Director Christopher Wray about warrantless searches at a recent House hearing. Specifically, Rep Jayapal wanted to know why the FBI and other federal agencies are buying vast quantities of personal data from data brokers, and how the agencies use this warrantless search data.
Rep Jayapal dropped a bombshell during her interview, telling host Kaitlan Collins that if the FBI doesn’t provide a satisfactory answer to this important question, she will have no other choice but to vote against reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) when it expires later this year–a very big deal.
What makes this a very big deal, you ask? Well, Rep Jayapal heads the House Progressive Caucus. If she decides to vote against reauthorizing FISA, you can rest assured that nearly all House Progressives will vote with her, killing FISA.
Asked by host Kaitlan Collins whether she was satisfied by the answers she got from FBI Director Wray, Rep Jayapal said she wasn’t, adding( 1:29), “We do have significant concerns, It’s not just I. The Office of Director of National Intelligence(ODNI) is where the report came from, that said that the FBI is purchasing large amounts of data from these data brokers, and that information contains everything, from your location information, your medical information, it could contain information about all kinds of private things that American people understandably don’t want the FBI to have…These are warrantless searches…they are backdoor searches. The information is used in ways we don’t know…”
Bottom line folks, Rep Jayapal is absolutely correct that warrantless surveillance by the FBI and other federal agencies is out of control, and in serious need of a fix. We’ve become accustomed to hearing members of Congress threatening to block FISA reauthorization over the same surveillance abuses, only to have them cave at the end due to pressure from the national security establishment. Something however tells me (not exactly sure what that is), that 2023 may be the year members of Congress finally drop the hammer on FISA, or as legal eagle Jonathan Turley puts it, the year they decide against being “chumps”.
US will become 'nation of chumps' if Congress allows FBI's warrantless surveillance of Americans, Turley warns https://t.co/NX1ZlY9nQB
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) July 15, 2023
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