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,” U.s. Army General Keith B. Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency, in an interview with the Department of Defense (foreign military aggression) web log Armed with Science, calls on the world to shut down journalists who are exposing the NSA’s secrets.

       [added 8/1/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

12/3/2013                   12/27/2013

References:

NSA Chief: Reporters Must Be Stopped—News from Antiwar.com.htm
news.antiwar.com/2013/10/24/nsa-chief-reporters-must-be-stopped/

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

Source