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WaPo: "When He Said He Had Access to Every CIA Station Around the World, He's Lying"

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Targetpractice6/10/2013 11:21:08 pm PDT

re: #76 gunnison

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.
:)

Yeah, I notice that the general theme amongst those swallowing the bilge that is this “scandal” is an undercurrent of distrust in authorities. That the government lies, the government always lies, so believing the worst about them is just good sense. But like I asked above, if one’s approach is that the government is lying to us, then how do you enforce honest on the government? Are you going to suggest we dismantle our intelligence services, because they can’t be trusted not to take liberties with our right to privacy in order to do their jobs?