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From the article: Representative Michelle Bachmann emphasized that the NSA should answer “how a traitor could do something like this to the American people,” A
by corford 13y ago
From the article: Representative Michelle Bachmann emphasized that the NSA should answer “how a traitor could do something like this to the American people,”
After watching the USA Today interview with Binney, Drake, Weibe and Radack (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowden-whistleblower-nsa-officials-roundtable/2428809/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...), Bachmann's demand and the language she used make me incandescent with rage.
I cannot get over the ignorance of the woman to be able to come out with something like that in good faith.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> I simply cannot understand the ignorance of the woman to be able to say something like that in good faith. What makes you think she said it in good faith?
- corford 13y agoHeh yeah. I guess I'm desperately clutching to the (futile?) belief that US congress is primarily stuffed with politicians of the dangerously incompetent and naive kind rather than the evil lizard people kind. People like Bachmann make me wonder though.
- rdouble 13y agoThe House is stuffed with politicians who appeal to their constituency. Unfortunately, the area Bachmann is from is filled with people who are similar to her.
- corford 13y agoI can understand that but surely one should be able to expect a member of congress to possess sufficient intelligence and moral judgement to be capable of recognising the stark truth of a situation when it's been laid out so unequivocally? I mean, after watching the USA Today interview, it takes some pretty spectacular mental gymnastics to paint what Snowden has done as anything other than being in the public interest. Her constituents may be ill informed but she's a fucking member of congress for christ's sake.
- rdouble 13y agosurely one should be able to expect a member of congress to possess sufficient intelligence Knowing the history of and present state of congress, I don't know why anyone would expect that.
- corford 13y agoYou're right I guess. I just found it shocking to see it so nakedly on display.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> I can understand that but surely one should be able to expect a member of congress to possess sufficient intelligence and moral judgement to be capable of recognising the stark truth of a situation when it's been laid out so unequivocally? Perhaps, but not always of sufficient moral character to, one they have the spotlight, not try to deflect attention away from the stark truth when that stark truth is hostile to their personal preferences.
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