2024/06/20

        While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, issues Bureau of Industry and Security Case # ICTS-2021-002, prohibiting Kaspersky (a Russian corporation) anti-virus software from being sold in the U.s. “Russia has shown it has the capacity and even more than that, the intent, to exploit Russian companies like Kaspersky to collect and weaponize the personal information of Americans.”

        Question: Why is wrong for the Russian Federation “to collect and weaponize the personal information of” U.s. subject/enemy/citizens, but it is okay for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Security Agency, and the myriad of other agencies in the Federal leviathan to do the same?

        [added 5/16/2026] Thanks to Antiwar.com for this entry.