Happened during the Clinton era, they just brazened it out, counting on scandal fatigue and just plain old disbelief. It sounds bizarre and ridiculous, it just keeps coming and coming, one revelation after another, and many will just decide that it’s politically motivated hysteria. It’s much easier to keep thinking everything is OK, so the populace begins tuning it out.
I get your point. Only trouble is this young 33 year old guy died for his trouble as his car reportedly; “jackknifed at 100 mph and mysteriously hit a tree.” Witnesses stated that”it sounded like a bomb went off”, furthermore body burned beyond recognition—lots of coincidences here.Hope someone of journalistic integrity is on this one.
Here is what Hastings was also working on as well, below:
Got it from here:
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/06/19/michael-hastings-chilling-final-story/
“Hastings’ final story, “Why Democrats Love to Spy on Americans,” was a searing take on the NSA snooping scandal, which Hastings described as “North Korea-esque.” Hastings pulled no punches as he linked the NSA scandal to the Department of Justice’s spying on reporters and the IRS abuse scandal. Hastings built a case that the same Democrats who turned Bush-era anti-terrorism techniques into wedge issues that helped them capture Congress and the White House in 2006 and 2008 were now defending much worse and more widespread spying on American citizens by the Obama administration.
As Hastings detailed likely short-term fallout as the NSA leak is investigated, he wrote:
[J]udging by the DOJ’s and FBI’s recent history, it would seem that any new leak case would involve obtaining the phone records of reporters at the Guardian, the Washington Post, employees at various agencies who would have had access to the leaked material, as well as politicians and staffers in Congress—records, we now can safely posit, they already have unchecked and full access to.
In short: any so-called credible DOJ/FBI leak investigation, by its very nature, would have to involve the Obama administration invasively using the very surveillance and data techniques it is attempting to hide in order to snoop on a few Democratic Senators and more media outlets, including one based overseas.”