re: #65 wrenchwench

I share my misgivings here.

It’s a truly messed-up, maddeningly complex situation, desptie how soimple some try to make it sound. I’ve spent part of my Friday unfollowing Muslims on Twitter who are comparing President Obama to President Bush, while not uttering a single peep of criticism at the lack of help from Muslim countries. WTF, people? *sigh*

In other news, it seems like the Snowden bromance is (finally) starting to sour for some. I wonder if he’s been attacked by GG yet for his heresy. Emphasis added:

Snowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10
^{—By Kevin Drum | Fri Sep. 6, 2013 11:19 AM PDT}

[…] For what it’s worth, this is about the point where I get off the Snowden train. It’s true that some of these disclosures are of clear public interest. In particular, I’m thinking about the details of NSA efforts to infiltrate and corrupt the standards setting groups that produce commercial crypto schemes.

But the rest of it is a lot more dubious. It’s not clear to me how disclosing NSA’s decryption breakthroughs benefits the public debate much, unlike previous disclosures that have raised serious questions about the scope and legality of NSA’s surveillance of U.S. persons. Conversely, it’s really easy to see how disclosing them harms U.S. efforts to keep up our surveillance on genuine bad guys. Unlike previous rounds of disclosures, I’m a lot less certain that this one should have seen the light of day.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/snowden-disclosures-nsa-bombshell-decryption