Back in 2009 when Snowden was apparently hoping Obama would clean up shop, Snowden said leakers should be “shot in the balls” and crapped on Wikileaks, the organization now helping keep him out of US hands.
The overall gist of the new records shows the extent of Snowden’s libertarianism, which is not surprising and support for Ron Paul. But suggests a pretty big change on his attitudes toward his work and the role of government secrecy.
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Unshackled from the tyranny of voting rights law, states around the South are speeding ahead to push through vote suppression “Voter ID” laws. Here’s a quick rundown of which states are already off and running.
Final Polltracker Average of Mass Senate race: Markey +9.6. Actual result: Markey +10.
And other morsels from Antonin Scalia’s dissent in the DOMA case.
President calls Prop 8 plaintiffs on cell phone during live MSNBC interview. Watch.
One threat haunting the immigration reform legislative debate was that the bipartisan coalition supporting comprehensive immigration reform would come apart over providing equal rights to same-sex married couples in the context of US immigration law. The DOMA decision largely ends that debate since the federal government is no longer able to discriminate between opposite sex and same sex couples married in US states where it is legal.