PRISM

[Griff]

Simon Tisdall has a piece on cnn.com that applies the brakes to the usual sycophant train from that organization. His take is that the world is tired of our shit. I'm tired of our shit so why wouldn't they be?

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/25/op...ion/index.html

[Griff]

Time has a poll out so I'll cherry pick one paragraph.

Fifty-four percent of respondents said the leaker, Edward Snowden, 29, did a “good thing” in releasing information about the government programs, which collect phone, email, and Internet search records in an effort, officials say, to prevent terrorist attacks. Just 30 percent disagreed.

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/06/13...#ixzz2XKO5iLnk

[glatt]

This is totally going to be a movie. The leak, the political fallout, the manhunt. The smart steps taken by Snowden, like the insurance policy of top secret data that he's left with friends to release if something happens to him. The sneaking around from country to country. Or maybe not. Putting journalist phones in the hotel fridge to stop NSA eavesdropping during the meeting.

[Lamplighter]

Simon Tisdall has a piece on cnn.com that ...

That's a fun article to read... it get's the juices flowing.

If only Simon would tell us what he really thinks.

<snip>L'affaire Snowden has provided a glorious field day for all those
"surrender monkey Commie pinko crypto-Marxist long-haired
G8-loathing eco-friendly global-warming anti-free market
anti-capitalist anti-McDonald's (anti-stereotype)"
anti-Americans who just love to hate the "Land of the Free."

It's surprising how many of them there are these days.
<snip>

We used to live in Buffalo, NY and listened to the CBC out of Toronto.
It was often eye-opening to hear what the non-US media were saying.