If Only The Tsar Knew
That concept got a lot of people killed and was an underlying cause of the Russian Revolution. To hear a variation coming from someone like Dr Juan Cole is just jarring.
Edward Snowden learned the lesson of Father Gapon and delivered his message to “the Tsar” from another country on a different continent. He wanted to be able to participate in the debate over what the government was doing, and not be ‘disappeared’ like Bradley Manning.
As I was never an Obama fan, I can see the sarcasm in “For Barack is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men.” He disenfranchised Democratic voters in Florida and Michigan to win the nomination because he wanted to win at any cost. He has never done anything that is even remotely liberal or progressive.
Given the way his Department of Justice charges whistleblowers with Espionage, trying to give a message to this Tsar, is every bit as potentially life-threatening as presenting one to Nicholas II.
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He has never done anything that is even remotely liberal or progressive.
He came out in favor of allowing gay marriage and for repeal of DOMA. After five years of opposing gay marriage and supporting DOMA, but still.
Other than that, I can’t think of anything.
After Joe Biden pushed him, he accepted what was going to happen anyway, in order to score a few unearned points. He hasn’t fought for anything that didn’t involve enriching the 1% and corporations. Hell, he didn’t offer as much support as Dick Cheney on the issue.
And now over at EmptyWheel we find out that the independent review of the NSA’s activities is going to be conducted by… the Booz Allen Hamilton Director of National Intelligence™ . Because of course James Clapper is going to do a really independent and super-honest review of NSA spying. You can trust him like a used car salesman. Oh wait… 😈
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
So the committee reports to Clapper, and Clapper tells the President and Congress what that report says, after appropriate editing for style, spelling, and spin…
And Zero wonders why we don’t trust or believe him.
We need a stated ‘cooling off period’ for officials caught blatantly lying, a length of time long enough for most people to forget the official does bad Joe Isuzu imitations, or they should just go out and hire David Leisure as their official briefer … at least we could get a laugh.