The news is that it's news.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:

> Chuck Grimes wrote:
> >> I am not really sure what to say or think. None of what Juan Cole wrote
> in  his summary or anything that Edward Snowden said in this interview with
> Glen Greenwald is news.<<
>
> raghu wrote:
> > I am puzzled about this one too. I had long taken it for granted that
> the NSA routines snoops on everything on Google, Facebook etc and
> definitely monitors all phone conversations and emails. Why is anyone
> surprised by any of this?<
>
> 1) there are some people on pen-l who still think that Obama is the cat's
> meow.
>
> 2) this may be a revelation to liberals, while it's always good when a
> major section of society is driven to be more critical of the power
> elite.
>
> 3) isn't it nice that leftist preconceptions are validated by the
> mainstream press?
> --
> Jim Devine /  "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
> own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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