Hey, someone’s gotta have the job of knowing what you’re violating, or nobody’s getting the thrill of knowingly doing illegal things.
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One of their favorite games has long been to just rename things and keep right on keepin’ on.
“Hey, we’re taking heat over Project X.”
“Okay, fine, so terminate Project X and spin up Project Y to do the exact same thing.”
(somewhat later…)
“Senator, I assure you, Project X was terminated years ago. We don’t do that any more.”
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Meanwhile, among too many other bona fide war criminals who are free, like Shrubya, to do piss-poor oil paintings of their toes, or hang out on their Wyoming ranch, or teach law as a tenured professor at Berkeley, are countless others who will never see justice served.
I suspect the definitive final chapter of our history as a former democracy will be aptly entitled “A Legacy of Ashes.”
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You misspelled “asses”
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Snow deserves to rot in jail.
Only if you toss the NSA director in next to him, the one who lied under oath to Congress.
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Sure, no one is above the law. Or at least no one should be.
And that’s the problem here. Nobody’s going after him for lying under oath to Congress, but plenty of people want Snowden’s head on a platter-- for proving that the NSA Director lied under oath.
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Hey! Life is pretty cozy here in the peanut gallery.
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I seed what you did there.
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So sorry - I didn’ seed nuttin’.
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Nutty as squirrel poop.
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That was still a terrible answer by Biden, in my opinion. Nobody wants to hear about his list of Nobel laureates who say inflation will “taper off” later this year. It’s also not a good look for Biden to get irritated just for being asked a question about inflation.
People are feeling it, it’s real. Biden needs to explain that part of it is corporate profiteering, and part of it is people quitting their jobs for better ones with higher pay, causing employers to bump salaries and pass that on to consumers. Don’t just make bland promises that it will get better.
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“Creating the CIA was the biggest mistake I ever made”, former president Harry Truman.
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“I concur”
–JFK
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Yep, you have to pay attention to the wording. The bit you quoted, with my emphasis added:
the intelligence agency is “committed to transparency consistent with our obligation to protect intelligence sources and methods.”
What that means is “we’re happy to tell you anything about how we do our job that does not actually expose how we do our job.”
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Thank you…not sure how someone could write this article and not identify the culprit.
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IKR? Here we have long-standing intelligence abuses based on an Executive Order written by one Republican President (Reagan) and expanded by another (Dubya), the abuses now coming to light thanks to a couple of Democratic Senators, so of course FOX goes all apeshit about how this is Dems spying on 'Merkan Patriots.
I am no longer confident that we are even speaking the same language. What they’re saying sounds like American English, but it sure doesn’t parse to anything that makes any sense in it.
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“And don’t get me started on the FBI”
– Mark Twain
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Speaking for myself, I am not at all worried about surveillance. It always seems more like a ‘safe zone’ for those who want something to complain about. The NSA metadata collection was much ado about nothing, same as the paranoid GMO fears, and the pre-Trump fears that Leftists promoted about the security of elections.
And don’t get me started about Snowden. (Okay, I’m already started.)
Never forget that Snowden said that he could spy on the President’s email…yet failed to provide any evidence of this.
Also never forget that even Bob Woodward said that the controls the NSA had in place to safeguard against abuses seemed pretty solid to him.
The CIA, now, that’s a slightly different matter. They have proven they will operate lawlessly if they can get away with it. But since this story has zero specifics in it, and since it relates to a Reagan-era Executive Order, why is this story?
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