the snowden situation allows him to say, look how they treat their people. we re not going to receive any moral lectures from the west. look at them. look how they behave. what i find fascinating and we just had john schindler who did counterintelligence and other things at nsa. i ve been following his twitter feed and other folks in the intelligence community. the media world at large, everybody has the memory that we re at it with the russkies. oh, right, we remember how to do this. all of this on both sides, right? it s real business here. there s syria. there s arms control. there are all kinds of conflict and pieces of business that fall apart or get worse as a result of a situation like this. so, yes, it s exacerbated and made more entertaining by the personality of and the public image of somebody like putin. and there s also the question of american power and how that s evolved or devolved in recent years. so all that is there and in play.
it, somebody who deeply regretted the collapse of the soviet union, deeply hated what happened in the 90s and hates seeing russia morally criticized when pussy riot is put in jail, when a main activist who was just found guilty. the snowden situation allows him to say, look how they treat their people. we re not going to receive any moral lectures from the west. look at them. look how they behave. what i find fascinating and we just had john schindler who did counterintelligence and other things at nsa. i ve been following his twitter feed and other folks in the intelligence community. the need media world at large, everybody has the memory that we re at it with the russkies. oh, right, we remember how to do this. all of this on both sides, right? it s real business here. there s syria. there s arms control. there are all kinds of conflict
thicker. good morning. good morning to you. two issues here. the privacy and the relationship with russia. let me start what continued to be growing concessions over privacy concern. what is your take on these surveillance programs? i think they are necessary and there are privacy protections built in there and actually i support the program because there are we haven non t gone too far? thousands of terrorists trying to get to us each day and we have stopped most of them but this is an important component to that. there is also the question has been raved in the middle of all this about russia and our relationship. you were in an op-ed recently in the the washington times and i want to read a piece of it. how do you think the snowden situation will ultimately be resolved and what it might mean for america s long-term
kou coarsing can adrenaline and your are in flight mode. you are sending all of your energy into your muscles to react. so your day-to-day things that you do subconsciously, their motor skilled leave and are gone and your brain isn t working. our law enforcement are trained over and over again to handle, you know, these tactical situations where there s an active shooter. arming a teacher, they are not going to have that kind of training. it s just not possible to understand what you re going to do in that situation and when i was faced with that situation, in hindsight, i did everything wrong but i thought i was doing everything right. let me just say, i don t know who that radio host was, and people can have legitimate disagreements about these issues, but to suggest that somehow you could have saved your friend is so beyond the pale. i don t even know what to say about it. great to have you in.
top of horses or whatever else, i mean he has a massive ego, number one. and his handling, sam stein, do we still have sam? of snowden, i think is representative of something bigger. by the way, glenn greenwald is writing a book. hope he doesn t threaten the government in that. in terms of his handling of the snowden situation, sam stein, what do you make of it? does it tell us something else about something we should be concerned about with vladimir putin? well, i, too, share your concerns about the shirtless photos on top of horses. yeah. for the handling of snowden, it s confusing. on the one hand he s giving him some space, obviously, because snowden remains as far as we know in the moscow airport and now he s flirting with the idea of granting him asylum. on the other hand he s put out these public guarantees he would not tolerate snowden leaking information that would danger u.s. national security. so it s sort of a microcosm, i guess, of the u.s./russian relationship at la