re: #73 Targetpractice

And how does metadata translate into the allegations that Snowden has made, such as being able to access anybody’s communications with so little as an email address? Being able to wiretap the president if he so chose to do so?

To my eye it doesn’t.
I think I said pretty clearly right up front in my first comment that there were conflicts and ambiguities in Snowdens remarks as reported in the Guardian.

My remarks seem to have been interpreted as assuming something that I do not assume. All this “it sounds right so it must be” stuff.
Not so.
I do know that intel services tell lies to congress, because that’s a matter of documented history.
I do know that cops tell lies in court all the damn time, because dealing with some of that was once part of my life, so “authorities” are not inherently more truthful than anyone else.
I don’t know anything about Snowden that we can’t all read in the media. I do know he’s not benefiting (that I can tell) from the actions that he’s taken.

And Glenn Beck is a loony. I know it wasn’t you that brought him up - I’m just trying to be efficient.
:)