What absolute bullshit, with the Atlantic just credulously slurping up the spin of a former NSA attorney. 12333 is an executive order! By its very nature Trump

What absolute bullshit, with the Atlantic just credulously slurping up the spin of a former NSA attorney. 12333 is an executive order! By its very nature Trump can rescind or update it on a whim the moment he's in office. How can you completely uncritically present readers the argument this is a way to set the rules in stone when they're written on the White House Etch-a-Sketch? And we of course get the "because 9/11" answer: The origin of these changes dates back, honestly, to just after 9/11. Now more than fifteen fucking years later, days before the guy these Dems all said was an unacceptable fascist threat walks into power, and because 9/11 we had to put the Obama stamp of approval on the "bcc: everyone" model of NSA dragnet surveillance sharing. Gotcha! [1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3283349-Raw-12333-surveillance-sharing-guidelines.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3283349-Raw-12333-su...