Leaking Like A Sieve
I found the perfect theme song for what the government is doing to us.
You may have noticed that in drips and dribbles the government is leaking information to support their terror alert. I would note that some of what is being reported should be classified because it is real intelligence and the reporting is revealing real ‘sources and methods’, unlike what Snowden released which covered the illegal parts of the activities.
For those who don’t keep up on this stuff, al Qaeda has pulled off three large prison breaks in the last year in Pakistan, Iraq, and Yemen. Interpol issued an alert based on the number of people who were released, which included criminals as well as, terrorists.
I would assume that those freed in Pakistan headed for the tribal areas; those from Iraq to Syria; while the Yemeni group probably rejoined their army in the on-going civil war.
It is strange that the super-atomic wonder system of NSA didn’t warn anyone about the prison breaks. I assume someone checked the date on the conversation of the ‘high-ranking al Qaeda members’ to be sure the ‘big thing’ wasn’t the prison break … right?
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I’d rather hear him sing that than John Dowland lute songs. Stella has that CD; the man is a competent amateur lutenist and singer of lute songs, but f’chrissake, why must he do in public something he doesn’t do all that well when he writes good songs of his own and IMHO performs them very well?
He uses a classical rondo form in the piece, and says he was thinking about 1984 when he wrote it. He doesn’t really believe that people don’t ‘get’ the obsessive nature of the lyrics. That’s also the reason that the video is so film noir.
He definitely is better off doing his own songs, as most singer/songwriters are. They write for their own strengths.
I’m afraid that given how much sense (or, rather, how little) the administration is making here (criticizing Snowden for revealing secrets, then revealing secrets?!), I have to say that a different song is more appropriate as their theme song. Yes, it makes no sense. But neither does what’s happening here.
Saying who was intercepted and what was discussed pretty much burns that source for the future, which is an incredibly stupid thing to do.