it, right? but when the constitutional scholar, the idealist, the poetic man she grew up in east germany where they would tap everything. so there is a cultural clash here. my own view about this i m giving up. okay. take whatever you want. i think the transparency that one requires in this new media and in this new world, i m just saying i give up totally given up. no expectations of privacy at all. just text the nsa stop looking. i don t even care. i m reading your e-mails right now. someone probably is. it s easily done. i m staggered by how much they can do. so at some point this is also a general cultural adjustment to new technologies and the ability to i mean, these are not documents on paper that are securely. these are things you can tap into anywhere. i was going to say i think one of the reasons there s not
the idea your friends are always your friends when you re talking about international geopolitical politics, i m not with that. i do take your point with the fact the nsa is ridiculously out of control, and i don t think that anyone really knows the extent of what s happening. it breaks the international community s image that they had formed the perception of president obama. here he is the constitutional did they think that he really stopped all spying on people? no. i m not saying what they thought. they can t believe that. nobody believes that. remember candidate obama standing in berlin in front of those hundreds of thousands of people. if dick cheney were doing this, if we found out that george w. bush and dick cheney were doing this, nobody would bat an eyelash. they were in 2002. nobody bats an eyelash about it, right? but when the constitutional scholar, the idealist, the poetic man she grew up in east germany where they would tap everything.