Jimmy Carter: Snowden's Leak 'Useful', 'America Has No Functioning Democracy'

Freda Art

Activist Post

In an article appearing in the German-language, Spiegel, former President Jimmy Carter expressed his support for whistleblowers and had sharp criticisms of the Obama Administration. 

Carter called the disclosure by Edward Snowden "useful" and said "the invasion of privacy" and "government secrecy" has gone too far.

Carter said the leaks are "likely to be useful because they inform the public."

"America has no functioning democracy," Carter stated.

Brzezinski’s Lament

Zbigniew Brzezinski
(photo credit:  Ted Lipien)

Adask's Law

Zbigniew Brzezinski is a Democrat who served as America’s 10^th National Security Advisor from A.D. 1977 through A.D. 1981 under the Jimmy Carter administration.

It strikes me as unusual, odd, even disturbing that Brzezinski became our National Security Advisor in A.D. 1977 since he’d already published his book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era in A.D. 1970.  Why?  Because in that book, he predicted and apparently advocated the control of populations by an elite political class via technetronic manipulation

According to Brzezinski,

“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

“In the technetronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”

Brzezinski: Obama raid glory escapes Carter fate

AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - For decades former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has been haunted by the failed hostage rescue in Iran, but this week he relived a new special forces drama -- one that ended with success rather than disaster.

Brzezinski said Friday that the US Navy SEALs mission that killed Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan provided President Barack Obama with a crucial special forces victory that eluded president Jimmy Carter a generation ago.

"In Obama's case had it failed (it) would have been similar" to the debacle that befell Carter, who lost re-election by a landslide in 1980 barely six months after the doomed effort to rescue 52 American hostages at the US embassy in Tehran, Brzezinski told the MSNBC network.

North Korea visit to focus on food crisis: Carter

© AFP Frederic J. Brown

AFP 

BEIJING (AFP) - A group of former statesmen led by ex-US president Jimmy Carter said Monday they will focus on food shortages, human rights and denuclearisation when they visit North Korea this week. 

A delegation of "The Elders" group of retired state leaders will visit Pyongyang on Tuesday in a bid to ease tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapon programmes, they told a news conference in Beijing.

The four-member group, led by Carter, includes former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, ex-Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and former Irish president Mary Robinson.