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Come on, if this wasn't a bold-faced lie, it follows that the President is either incompetent/derelict, or not in control of the NSA; in which case the Presiden
by fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
Come on, if this wasn't a bold-faced lie, it follows that the President is either incompetent/derelict, or not in control of the NSA; in which case the President is a dupe/stooge, and the NSA is acting of its own accord outside the defined bounds of its authority. Let's hope the President is merely lying.
- roc 13y agoOr the US Government is just like any other large organization, and when low level employees screw up, or a report looks bad, everyone at every level on the way up tries like hell to bury, burn or spin it, so that it doesn't reflect poorly on them. Which does imply a troubling level of ignorance and/or misplaced trust, but is not necessarily on par with the NSA gone rogue or the President being a dupe or stooge.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoOkay then, the NSA is incompetent/untrustworthy, and the gov't is incompetent/derelict in its oversight duty. I'm going to consider this possibility to be less likely, unless the President makes decisive corrective action. If the President can't denounce/correct such a failure, then he owns it.