lsanderson | On the Recent Snowden Unpleasantness

4. The reaction that most infuriates the Rude Pundit is that Snowden didn't do the nation any favors because, well, fuck, we all knew that our phone calls and other information was being monitored. As David Ignatius said last week, "In more than 34 years of traveling regularly overseas, I have assumed that foreign intelligence services are picking my communications clean." Yeah, but there's a huge difference between strongly suspecting that your husband is fucking around and being shown pictures of him balling the babysitter. There's vast gulf between "knowing" and knowledge. The intelligence services have been forced to say, "Okay, yeah, you caught us." The twist is that they're adding, "And, oh, by the way, we're gonna keep boning the babysitter. Just try to stop us from fucking her." Plus Four Additional Points