[ by Charles Cameron — I’ll keep this one short and painless, since long would be painful ]
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Problem: the Snowden / NSA business is of interest to me as a human being, but way outside my competence.
Solution: To get NSA wrong, trust @ggreenwald. To get it right, filter GG through @joshuafoust, @20committee, @marcambinder and his book Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry — then the conversation gets interesting!