Upvote for link. I had ignored the wikileaks stuff, like I ignored most of the election cycle, because I ignore most current events. But it was time to take a peek to see what everyone got excited about.
I just randomly picked links and citations. Sorry, but I didn't find any there there. (I skipped the secret email server, mostly because I don't care.)
Just one example, in #6 its clear from context that Bill Ivey's use of "we" refers to society as a whole. Further, he's venting about the decline of civic engagement, an opinion shared by many (such as myself).
My primary reaction is "Hate the game, not the players." Politics sucks. All of it. But why is any one surprised by the corruption? This is the system we designed, or at least accepted. If we hate it so much, they we should support publicly financed campaigns, restoring the fairness doctrine, shortening the political cycle, etc, etc. But we don't. Because Freedom Markets™ booyah!
My secondary reaction is "Wow, this InfoWars stuff makes my head hurt." I can never tell if cherry picking quotes out of context and making wild inferences is intentional obfuscation or just how some people process the world.
The secret email server is actually more interesting than you think. They found hundreds of emails containing classified info (including TS info, like a picture of NK that one of the media guys talks about in the dump). We also have an email between Hillary & Colin Powell discussing how to subvert the Presidential Records Act.
This is part of what Colin Powell said that I think it especially illustrative of how big of a security risk people like this are when put in power:
Now, the real issue had to do with PDAs, as we called them a few years ago before BlackBerry became a noun. And the issue was DS would not allow them into the secure spaces, especially up your way. When I asked why not they gave me all kinds of nonsense about how they gave out signals that could be read by spies, etc. Same reason they tried to keep mobile phones out of the suite. I had numerous meetings with them. We even opened one up for them to try to explain to me why it was more dangerous than say, a remote control for one of the many tvs in the suite. Or something embedded in my shoe heel. They never satisfied me and NSA/CIA wouldn't back off. So, we just went about our business and stopped asking. I had an ancient version of a PDA and used it. In general, the suite was so sealed that it is hard to get signals in or out wirelessly.
I just randomly picked links and citations. Sorry, but I didn't find any there there. (I skipped the secret email server, mostly because I don't care.)
Just one example, in #6 its clear from context that Bill Ivey's use of "we" refers to society as a whole. Further, he's venting about the decline of civic engagement, an opinion shared by many (such as myself).
My primary reaction is "Hate the game, not the players." Politics sucks. All of it. But why is any one surprised by the corruption? This is the system we designed, or at least accepted. If we hate it so much, they we should support publicly financed campaigns, restoring the fairness doctrine, shortening the political cycle, etc, etc. But we don't. Because Freedom Markets™ booyah!
My secondary reaction is "Wow, this InfoWars stuff makes my head hurt." I can never tell if cherry picking quotes out of context and making wild inferences is intentional obfuscation or just how some people process the world.
Any way, thanks for the link.
PS- The spirit worshipping stuff is hysterical.