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contractor. what are we doing that they have so much access to information. in this instance it isn t just information. he had access to a building. he was able to get in there. you have been in military installations, they are not easy to get into. nope. what kind of identification card did he have? how easy is it to jump the turnstile or to overpower someone? it was obviously easy enough for him to get in and murder 12 unsuspecting people. you bring up the snowden case. it s difficult for them to have a firearm this on a military base of any kind. you know, sean, every military base i have been on, i felt so safe. in washington, d.c., some of the streets are dangerous. lots of times you don t feel safe. i have never felt unsafe in a military installation, whether here at this one or any place else in the country or the world i have traveled.
is that better than if they were great at it? that s better than being great at it. as reporters we get paid not to be cynical but to be skeptical and i am at least somewhat skeptical that this was all just ineptitude, the keystone cops, as you say. and i think the public at-large, certainly a large percentage of it, is also very skeptical. this is one of those situations where i think when you look at the snowden case, you look at the manning scandal, we ll call it that, what s happening with nsa, for a lot of americans this is demolishing the trust in the government. and we know in our society based on freedom and democracy that it s absolutely imperative to a high degree of trust between the leadership and the led. these cases including this most recent information, the new information by the nsa leads
should it be comforting in a way that the government is incompetent at overreaching? is that better than if they were great at it? that s better than being great at it. as reporters we get paid not to be cynical but to be skeptical and i am at least somewhat skeptical that this was all just ineptitude, the keystone cops, as you say. and i think the public at-large, certainly a large percentage of it, is also very skeptical. this is one of those situations where i think when you look at the snowden case, you look at the manning scandal, we ll call it that, what s happening with nsa, for a lot of americans this is demolishing the trust in the government. and we know in our society based on freedom and democracy that it s absolutely imperative to a high degree of trust between the leadership and the led. these cases including this most
a anchor for dan rather reports on axs-tv. should it be comforting in a way that the government is incompetent at overreaching? is that better than if they were great at it? that s better than being great at it. as reporters we get paid not to be cynical but to be skeptical and i am at least somewhat skeptical that this was all just ineptitude, the keystone cops, as you say. and i think the public at-large, certainly a large percentage of it, is also very skeptical. this is one of those situations where i think when you look at the snowden case, you look at the manning scandal, we ll call it that, what s happening with nsa, for a lot of americans this is demolishing the trust in the government. and we know in our society based on freedom and democracy that it s absolutely imperfect it tiff to a high degree of trust