“We’re At A Very Dangerous Point,
We’re In A Lot Of Trouble”
Erica Ritz, TheBlaze — Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, who is
running for Congress in Maryland, appeared on the Glenn Beck Program Thursday to discuss why he chose to run for elected office.
“We’re at a very dangerous point, Glenn,” Bongino began. “We’re in a lot of trouble. The president sees government — and I think it’s because of his lack of experience, and maybe community organizing in the past — as like this shiny new toy. And for all the disagreements I had with Clinton, Carter, and Bush, there were always limits. There was that line you just didn’t cross — we cross that seemingly every day…”
Bongino said that we’re “lost in the scandals,” from the IRS targeting conservative organizations to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius “shaking down” the healthcare industry, among others.
“It’s to the point where these scandals in and of themselves [that] would be huge, backbreaking scandals are just lot in the ‘scandal fog’ of this administration,” he said in disbelief. “It’s worse than people know; I’m not trying to scare you either.”
Here are some of Bongino’s other positions, from the
“Dan Bongino for Congress” website (you can click on the image to make it larger):
Beck and Bongino also spoke about the NSA and the U.S. government’s domestic surveillance programs.
“You give the government information, it will be abused,” Bongino warned flatly. “It is not a matter of
if it will be abused, it’s only a matter of when.”
He added that while most will say “I have nothing to hide,” you do. Whether it’s something personal but not necessarily illegal, or some regulatory offense you didn’t even know you are committing, the government will get you if it wants to.
“It’s only a matter of time before someone slaps an email on your desk that you sent fifteen years ago threatening to punch out your neighbor for not pruning his trees, and says, ‘Look at what I got against you. We need your information on whatever…’”
He said the NSA scandal “gets at the roots of what liberty means…That flag means something. It’s undermining the very principles that made this country great.”
“Remember,” Bongino concluded, “when the key is held by someone else, liberty means absolutely nothing.”
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Erica Ritz is an assistant editor at TheBlaze. She graduated early from Southern Methodist University with a degree in International Relations and a minor in Italian. A fanatical traveler, she spent a year in Italy during high school, then a semester in Egypt and a semester in Israel during college. Originally from Minnesota, she currently resides in New York City.
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Mike Opelka, TheBlaze — Dan Bongino lost his race for the U.S. Senate last Fall and the former Secret Service agent was finally closing up shop on his campaign offices when his phone started ringing like crazy. Television and radio shows were calling to ask Dan if he was free… free to talk about this brief speech he gave on January 19th at a Guns Across America rally in Annapolis Maryland.
