TPM Reader JO says he buys Ellsberg’s argument about the different country we’re living in today …
Ellsberg says “The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago” and you ask what that means.
Ellsberg points out that Snowden would get the full Manning treatment. I buy that. If Snowden had been sitting in any Holiday Inn in the USA instead of in Hong Kong, do you have any doubt that he would now be under the control of federal authorities, and unable to move or communicate?
Need a primer on just what’s happened over the last 10 days in Egypt. Broken down day by day. Here it is.
Longtime TPM Reader JL tries a hypothetical with himelf. What would Rand Paul have to do, have to propose to get him to abandon the Democratic candidate in 2016?
I’m just one person and this is about just one moment in time but …
Yesterday, reading the NYT article on FISA Court, I found myself thinking, if Rand Paul were to make GWOT reform the, or at least a, centerpiece of his campaign … and if he were to get the nomination … what would he have to include, and perhaps more importantly exclude or downplay, to get me to vote for him over Hillary, assuming Hillary runs and defends the GWOT status quo.
Three year old accidentally shoots himself in the head with an unattended hangun. The boy died.
Whatever the facts turn out to be on who fired the first shots, the embattled and deposed Muslim Brotherhood now has its martyrs. Latest report list at least 51 killed in a clash between the Egyptian Army and Brotherhood protestors camped outside the military barracks where Morsi is apparently being held. More details on each side’s account of what happened here.
A major insurer of schools has declined to continue offering coverage to Kansas schools after passage of a new state law allowing teachers and staff to carry concealed firearms on campus.
The company, EMC Insurance Cos currently covers between 85% and 90% of Kansas school districts.
Egypt’s top cleric, who stood beside top general announcing Morsi overthrow, goes into seclusion, warns of civil war.
Not everyone happy about “White History Month” parade float in North Carolina town.
Many critics have unfavorably compared Edward Snowden to Daniel Ellsberg because he fled the country rather than stand trial. But Ellsberg now says that’s not a fair comparison because “The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago.”
Both as a rhetorical question and a real question I’m curious just what Ellsberg means by that. His basic argument is that he was able to stay out on bail and that wouldn’t have been an option for Snowden. On the other hand, the White House at the time was running a special operations team against Ellsberg out of the White House, including breaking into his psychiatrist’s office and at least some discussions of having him killed. So I’m not sure we can call those the glory days.