Wow! Ray McGovern roasts the Obama Administration, but good!...

[Catherina]

29. I know lol.

I'm glad you reposted it. I posted it on Sunday because I thought it was a fantastic article. And as is becoming very common these days, the first responder was someone on my ignore list lol.

Here was my introduction to it:

It's a brilliant article. I recommend people read the whole thing. Ray McGovern rightfully points out how our death penalty earns us "the dubious distinction of joining a list with China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia as the leaders in executing people"

The hypocrisy, the lack of transparency, the lies that so many people bent over backwards to cover, and still do, are coming back to bite us hard. And instead of admitting that burying heads in the sand and trying to maintain "message discipline" to cover for things we knew were wrong, or at least stopping the obfuscation, now it's everybody's fault for being racists or whatthefuck ever except the fault of the people who got caught and just pissed everyone off. This isn't even about Obama, it's about a surveillance state gone a-kilter. Obama's involvement is any of this is what he chooses it to be.

A writer at The New Republic had harsh criticism about that and pragmatically pointed out, that Obama should stop chasing Snowden, pardon Bradley Manning and pick up the ball with the public from there. That too wouldn't be out of "any motive other than expediency".