of national intelligence say that he s all in favor of that. the white house has sent similar signals. presumably, he would be charged for violations of the espionage act. as you say, the real question is, well, what are the mechanisms at work now for getting custody of him? and that s another puzzling as pekt here, his decision to flee to hong kong and his declaration he ll now seek asylum in another country where he might be protected. you know, this is all undoubtedly going to play out over some length of time,w3 jus as it has for julian assange in london, who s the creator of the wikileaks website. and to your point, he could end up at a consulate and seek some kind of protection. johnathan, let me bring you in on the political ramifications. there s still many questions. ted cruz now on a radio ad questioning the administration
foreign country requires the approval of that foreign country s government. as messed up as the libyan government was at that point, they just couldn t say yes, give us more, give us a military protection. stevens, one of his calling cards was his relationships on the ground. his willingness to get out and get to know people. he wanted a peace corps guy. he was there to transform that compound in part to this open space. they had some name like an american space. there was going to be a symbol of american/libyan cooperation. consulate services. that s right. sort of educational types of things. at the end of the day, chris, the enduring mystery here is why did he go to a danger zone on the most dangerous day of the year when there were such concerns about security? i still find that kind of puzzling. it may be that he just didn t want to be cowed. but he did walk into a very dangerous situation. i ve heard other diplomats they find it puzzling he took that risk. maybe he
putting uniformed military in a foreign country requires the approval of that foreign country s government. as messed up as the libyan government was at that point, they just couldn t say yes, give us more, give us a military protection. stevens, one of his calling cards was his relationships on the ground. his willingness to get out and get to know people. he wanted a peace corps guy. he was there to transform that compound in part to this open space. they had some name like an american space. there was going to be a symbol of american/libyan cooperation. consulate services. that s right. sort of educational types of things. at the end of the day, chris, the enduring mystery here is why did he go to a danger zone on the most dangerous day of the year when there were such concerns about security? i still find that kind of puzzling. it may be that he just didn t want to be cowed. but he did walk into a very
putting uniformed military in a foreign country requires the approval of that foreign country s government. as messed up as the libyan government was at that point, they just couldn t say yes, give us more, give us a military protection. stevens, one of his calling cards was his relationships on the ground. his willingness to get out and get to know people. he wanted a peace corps guy. he was there to transform that compound in part to this open space. they had some name like an american space. there was going to be a symbol of american/libyan cooperation. consulate services. that s right. sort of educational types of things. at the end of the day, chris, the enduring mystery here is why did he go to a danger zone on the most dangerous day of the year when there were such concerns about security? i still find that kind of puzzling. it may be that he just didn t want to be cowed. but he did walk into a very dangerous situation. i ve heard other diplomats they find it puzzlin
but it made sense politically why they would do it. but the court basically gave them an out essentially for them to go back and double down does not make any sense to me when they had an out. and you know, particularly just ironically this is probably not the week that you want to make your friends on the left angry because you re going to need some people because you ve got three other scandals, actual scandals that you need to be dealing with. jonathan, emily basel wrote in slate last month about this she said every time a president sets himself against solid science, he naks easier for the next administration to do the same. crying wolf about child safety on this is especially bad in the realm of teen sex, where adult fears can block all kinds of sensible education and birth control efforts. what do you make of that? i think she s right. it s wrong on the policy merits, it seems wrong politically. i think the people that are worried about offending are not part of their natur