The Snowden Chronicles

Paradise Lost, Gustave Doré

"They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate, With dreadful forces thronged, and fiery arms Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way."

Paradise Lost, Book XII.









“At some point, the [Obama] administration weaponized the NSA’s legitimate monitoring of communications of foreign officials to stay one step ahead of domestic political opponents” (Lee Smith, Tablet, April 5, 2017).

Some years ago, the Snowden Chronicles revealed that Obama was the "unmerited" recipient of the capability to globally monitor connectivity and store without bandwidth constraint the constituent text, voice, video, and GPS coordinates of every transaction initiated on the "Omnipresent" confluence of cell phone, internet, and ubiquitous network servers; the archived data to be processed by algorithms yet to be imagined. Such has been the propensity of mankind for Omniscience, albeit a synthetic Omniscience.

"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:4-5).

However, Omniscience is more than just knowing, 'Scientia Potentia Est' i.e., “Knowledge is Power”, the ultimate power that comes from knowing the "thoughts and intents of the heart" of every cyber-connected soul on earth, a power that Obama misappropriated, a power that even the serpent never had until that day!