may stretch the limits of fair use, but I will risk it, because they are so powerful.
They are from his Washington Post column, titled today We can handle the truth on NSA spying/.
He begins with these two:  
I don’t believe government officials when they say the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs do not invade our privacy. The record suggests that you shouldn’t believe them, either.
It pains me to sound like some Rand Paul acolyte. I promise I’m not wearing a tinfoil hat or scanning the leaden sky for black helicopters. I just wish our government would start treating us like adults — more important, like participants in a democracy — and stop lying. We can handle the truth.
And yes, that last sentence is a reference to the words of Col. Nathan Jessup in "A Few Good Men."
Perhaps I have been around DC too long, and been an observer of politics and government for even longer, 31 and 63 years respectively (my observations begin with the Army-MCCarthy


Spain claims it was told Snowden on plane
Talking Points Memo now has up this AP story from which I quote: Spain says it and other European countries were told that fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden was aboard the Bolivian presidential plane that was diverted to Austria this week, causing a diplomatic row. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said Friday on Spanish National Television “they told us that the information was clear,
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