Only to point this out, because most have missed this....the timing is awful odd.
The Guardian is not a conservative or independent-thinking newspaper.
There are three Obama episodes lined up one after another and for this year....all three are major episodes. First, the meeting out in Palm Springs with the Chinese Premier, where cyber warfare was going to be the number one topic. Now? The Chinese Premier can laugh off this conversation and the President looks like an idiot.
Second, the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland. It would have given the President great opportunity to speak. Now? Several of the guests are going to ask about privacy of data and calls. He can’t clearly answer it, and looks fake with his memorized piece of response.
Third, he lands in Germany to give a grand speech in Berlin. There was to be a interview chance by German reporters. I doubt this occurs, and some protesters will show signs asking about the NSA thing at the speech.
The timing of the Guardian article? All suspect. Someone (Mossad, the Chinese, the KGB, some hostile NSA guys, someone from the Tea Party, etc)....has dumped this info to the Guardian. This entire two week period is screwed. The President’s one chance to escape the media and do overseas travel to look good. Total failure on that plan.
So don’t get all peppy about the good that newspapers do from overseas. It was planned and timed this way.
First, the meeting out in Palm Springs with the Chinese Premier, where cyber warfare was going to be the number one topic. Now? The Chinese Premier can laugh off this conversation and the President looks like an idiot.
Not to mention,(but I will) the president’s wife
stiffing the Premier’s wife who it appears took
umbrage at the slight.
We knew these folk were a disaster, but just didn’t
realize how much!!!