{"id":36842,"date":"2013-06-20T04:05:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T09:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36842"},"modified":"2013-06-19T20:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T01:45:01","slug":"corroboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36842","title":{"rendered":"Corroboration."},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

\n

Uh oh, Snowden has supporters among other whistle-blowers? So he’s factually correct about NSA’s programs? <\/p>\n

Nah, rogue agents, all of them. And scalawags, liars and traitors to The First Black President. <\/p>\n

Who to believe? Are Conservatives too willing to believe the worst because of Who is in control right now? I doubt it. Especially since as the pressures mount the admissions trickle out. It’s the same story pattern always:<\/p>\n

1 it never happened.
\n2 it probably didn’t happen, but if it did it was an isolated incident by some low-level rogue person in that department\/agency\/office.
\n3 it might have happened; but if it did, it was very limited to just one or two rogue persons and it was something that was justified and necessary in any case.
\n4 it was necessary and LEGAL and everyone knew it and besides it was carefully limited to just what was needed.
\n5
\n6
\n7
\n8<\/p>\n

(escalation of excuses)<\/p>\n

17 This is the first Obama and anyone in seats of power have heard anything about it. What is this about again?
\n18 This is old news, we’ve already addressed it. What difference does it make anyway?
\n19 We refuse to talk about this anymore because it’s old news, it doesn’t matter, everyone else agreed to it anyway, and it was Bush’s fault.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

it’s the extension of the old Clinton play book: deny, delay, destroy. B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Uh oh, Snowden has supporters among other whistle-blowers? So he’s factually correct about NSA’s programs? Nah, rogue agents, all of them. And scalawags, liars and traitors to The First Black President. Who to believe? Are Conservatives too willing to believe the worst because of Who is in control right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36843,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36842\/revisions\/36843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}