Changing their story one revelation at a time
by digby
Here’s a nice commentary from Ari Melber on how the government has changed its tune about the surveillance programs over the past couple of weeks. (And this was before the news last night from the Washington Post about the thousands of mistakes and violations of the law.)
It’s really foolish for any president to use the “nothing to see her, move along citizens” line when a story like this breaks. Inevitably they are going to be seen to have misled the public or were themselves misled by their underlings. Either way, it’s damaging to their credibility.
But they always do it. I suppose it’s only human to think that when you are so powerful that you can personally order the US government to kill people that you can control events like this. It’s a mistake.
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