WASHINGTON (AP) - The director of the National Security Agency vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programs as an effective tool in keeping America safe, telling Congress on Wednesday that the information collected disrupted dozens of terrorist attacks without offering details.

".....WITHOUT OFFERING DETAILS."

     

Why would anyone be skeptical of comments, and yes, even sworn testimony from government officials....especially those committed to pleasing their boss,  Barack H. Obama?

THE PROBLEM

        
     

     THE SOLUTION

                         

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it..............The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." --- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945*

* http://www.whale.to/a/lying_q.html