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I'm not quite as rabid as a lot of HN commenters are about this entire issue, but the following passage is near-comical: Balancing the competing interests at s
by jmduke 13y ago
I'm not quite as rabid as a lot of HN commenters are about this entire issue, but the following passage is near-comical:
Balancing the competing interests at stake, the Government has taken a number of significant steps -- above and beyond what the law requires -- in order to promote transparency and accommodate the the legitimate interests of companies. For example, for the first time, in the winter of 2013, the Government agreed that companies may report the aggregate number of NSLs they receive, in numerical ranges and on a periodic basis.
When you're trumpeting the fact that you oh-so-graciously allowed companies to report the number of gag orders they received as some sort of great leap forward in transparency, it's a bad sign.
- sker 13y agoReminds me of the Obama speech regarding Syria: I don't need Congress' or anyone's permission to strike Syria right now. But since I'm such a nice guy, I'll just go ahead and let Congress have a vote before I do it anyway, just for kicks.
- robomartin 13y agoHe actually saud that? Wow. Do you have a limk to video? This would certainly reveal a mindset.
- kevin_rubyhouse 13y agoI think he was paraphrasing.
- GalacticDomin8r 13y agoI think he was paraphrasing and sensationalizing.
- jbooth 13y agoEspecially considering, in hindsight, the entire episode seems to have been a masterful Bad Cop impression by Obama. I thought he looked like an idiot during it, but somehow we got more than we could have expected from a coercive cruise-missiling.
- sker 13y agoAs Kevin said, I was paraphrasing. Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYDhMmVLXI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYDhMmVLXI