I know, I suck. But a serious question:

[ancianita]

78. I think mutual orchestrations for mutual political ends overlook lying. We CAN'T believe it.

We're SUPPOSED to be made cynical by it. We're not supposed to STILL, after all these decades of official lying, be dismayed by its current visibility.

Congress COULD have gone after both Clapper and Obama through Clapper, but didn't. After all the misery Congress has perpetrated upon this administration, you no longer need to wonder why they didn't attempt to "bury" his presidency with this.

Your conclusions about what we should further believe from Obama are fair. But...

We should not still be in the shock and "who else is as shocked as I am?" stage of politics with Obama by now. ( It won't help us get concessions from Hillary or the DLC if, by looking outraged or dismayed, we progressives' still look disorganized. We don't have to be uniform, but we have to show a tougher kind of unity to get policy concessions and legislation from the next congress and president).

We should all be in the planning stages of planning revolutionary tactics bent toward restructuring the Bush's corporate laws, intel networks and the makeup of SCOTUS. We should be operating now as if they mostly lie publicly until facts back them up. The body politic needs to demand more than words forevermore.

The hierarchy doesn't even matter to me anymore. There's no military or judicial power that the prez has ever used against criminals in his government, so why worry about who is boss at this point. Also, there's no longer any "embrace" of lying in either realm; this "embrace" is your realization of what's been going on for decades.

Thanks for the post and raising good points and questions. This is just my two cents.