The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA): Washington’s Little Known Spy Agency
NOVANEWS
By Stephen Lendman
US spying is institutionalized – on anyone, anywhere for any reason or none at all.
Invented national security threats, targeting dissent and whistleblowers, along with challenging press freedom undermine fundamental rights.
In Palko v. Connecticut (1937), the Supreme Court called
“(f)reedom of thought the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.”
In Texas v. Johnson (1989), Justice William Brennan, writing for the majority, said
“if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.”
“Thomas Jefferson said “(w)hat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warne...