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EDIT: AAaand... they changed the photo! What I say below is still slightly true of the current photo, but you should've seen the original one. Here's a copy s
by rdiddly 8y ago
EDIT: AAaand... they changed the photo! What I say below is still slightly true of the current photo, but you should've seen the original one. Here's a copy somebody cached of it:
http://wat-if.com/fbi-repeatedly-overstated-encryption-threat-figures-to-congress-public/ http://wat-if.com/fbi-repeatedly-overstated-encryption-threa...
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Check out the contrasting body language in the photo. Wray looking smug, practically sauntering (reminds me of this: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/strutting-leo http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/strutting-leo), not a care in the world. On the left is someone from the Capitol Police, much lower-ranked, who actually worries about and protects things for a living and probably doesn't get as much sleep as he should.
The first guy could stand to be a little more like the second, since at least in theory he's the "top law enforcement officer in the land" and a supposed protector of law and order. In reality he's presumably an expert at playing politics, doing favors, and stretching the truth to get an advantage, such as... hey, this article. Not to mention that spying on people, I suspect, has a lot less to do with guy-on-the-left/protecting-people concerns than it does with guy-on-the-right/political-jockeying concerns.
- woodruffw 8y agoThe top enforcement officer in the US is the attorney general, to whom the FBI director reports. I wouldn't read too much into the body language. Newspapers choose whatever relatively recent pictures they have, coupled with some relevant features (leading to those great pouty-face photos whenever there's bad news for the person involved).
- rdiddly 8y agoAh you mean "scandal face." Yeah those are a hoot. And yeah I'm not necessarily trying too hard to link the photo to this news in space and time; just taking it on its own, and extrapolating. I rarely pay this much attention to the art.
- Hupriene 8y agoThat seems like waaay to much to extrapolate from a single photo who's exact circumstances we don't know about. Maybe he just spotted his ex and wanted to look superior. Maybe he's just raising his arm in order to scratch his ear, which was itching real bad.