Here's Why Snowden Plea Negotiations Are Going Nowhere

[MADem]

28. Now you are starting to be rude, hurtful and disruptive and I don't like it.

I haven't made a single thing up.

I've provided citations for my assertions, and all you have done in this thread is NAME CALL and make shitty litttle insinuations about me.

You're giving everyone a really good view, you know--but it's revealing a character that doesn't acquit you well at all.

Having a "continued and principled opposition" is not realized by ignoring the instructions of a committee chair, it is not realized by asking a classified question in open session after being TOLD to not do that, it is not realized by playing "Gotcha" with a guy who didn't MAKE the rules, but was simply a public servant implementing them, and who would have answered every question that the guy had in CLOSED session without any argument or issue.

Wyden was playing to the cheap seats--he was acting like a Republican, playing Gotcha, being snide and accusatory, and putting the witness in an untenable position. He fucked up.

Since he already knew the answer to the question he asked, why didn't he correct the witness, hmmmm? Why did he just let it go? Why didn't he say, "That's not correct, the correct response is..."

Because he was hoping to trip the guy up, and nothing more--Clapper didn't play ball, and no one found out about the disconnect until months later.

That was a Major Fail.