re: #36 gunnison

I’m not sure why Charles has come out swinging against the stories that the Guardian is carrying right out of the box like that, and it’s not even my business to explore that obvious animosity.

I won’t speak for Charles, but call it a hunch — I think the fact that the stories are bullshit has a lot to do with whatever “animosity” you’re seeing.

There is no logical reason to believe everything in the Guardian or any other source, but neither is there a logical reason to believe that Al Franken or anyone else on his committee are being told the truth, or that the reports now emerging from the NSA are truthful about Snowden’s access or much of anything else either, and there is both motive and opportunity for those people to be very disingenuous about what they will and will not admit to.

So we should accept Snowden’s lies because someone else may be lying about something else? WTF.