that the government was watching every single e-mail that you send or receive, that it hasn t an overseas sender or recipient. is there abuse? well, no. and in fact, if you would go back and look at the videotape from snowden, and ask yourself the question, where is the name of the individual who was spied on? what is the name of the nsa analyst that he says abused the program? and the answer is, you can t find one, because he doesn t actually say that there was abuse. he speculates as a system administrator, that he thinks that the program is wrong. so he doesn t expose wrongdoing, he just disagrees with the policy. that s an interesting point. and i know it s threading the needle, but it s an important. now, allays of the united states, germany, france, countries that we rely on to share intelligence have come out and slammed the u.s. whether this is just government pr, they have slammed the u.s. the president came back hard against them today, saying the united states is actuall
that s not the case. the president absolutely needs to tread lightly here. one of the things he s doing is trying to figure out how to work in collaboration with nato and get our allays involved and figure out what we can do if we do, indeed, intervene. and there are a lot of folks who will say, without a security council resresolution, for instance, and without some sort of imminent threat posed to the united states, it could be very difficult to justify any type of advanced military operation in syria, no? absolutely. especially with this president, who made a big point of drawing down forces in iraq and he was against the iraq war to begin with. obviously, he spent a lot of the election talking about withdrawing from this area of the world, trying to focus on other areas of the world. they have a pivot to asia going on, trying to focus there. i think this is why the president is now saying, we re looking to have an investigation, to find out more about who exactly used these wea
people s theologies. coates disagrees with jonathan chait and so do i. the blue period, an origin story. nerd alicious, good, wickedly smart people using enormous words, complex sentence structures, and thinly veiled intellectual shade to discuss consequential issues. and people were paying attention. writers at the nation, the american prospect, the new york times all jumped in to tap out coates or chait and get their own licks in. even gawker covered it. call that a win for the public. but as much as i eagerly anticipated each new entry in this thoroughly engrossing conversation, it was disappointing. many times, african-americans have entered these discussions only to discover that those who were supposed to be political allays are eager to argue there