I think the Brazilian President is not so much upset that we spy, but that we spy better than her spies spy....
But in many cases, someone's Twitter or blog history is important in itself.
With a blog entry, one can update and correct, as Buzzfeed did yesterday, and Google Cache often (but not always) saves the original. But with Twitter, there is no ability to change the tweet itself, only to issue a new tweet correcting the prior (Morgan has not done that, btw), and it is much harder to reconstruct deleted tweets.
The same issue exists as to the NY Daily News' now infamous Cover which was sent out on Twitter, and resulted in this conversation:
https://twitter.com/brithume/status/380086436835241984
https://twitter.com/LegInsurrection/status/380312186456793088
My USNA '81 classmate Marty Bodrog was killed yesterday by the douchebag at the Navy Yard. Here's the thing. The very first week of training at the Naval Academy in July 1977 during "plebe summer" we woke up at about 0600 and the second thing we did (after PT) was to go across the Severn River on boats to the Annapolis Naval Station to the shooting range, where we were all (1000 or so of us) trained by enlisted (many Vietnam veteran) Marines in how to shoot a Navy 45 caliber pistol. By the end of the week I shot expert and was awarded the Navy Expert Pistol Medal. Not everyone did that, but we were all exceptionally well trained. I have no doubt that if Marty was armed he would be alive and that douchebag would be dead. It is such a tragedy. Just thought I'd share, since no one will ever bring up anything like this.Video report on Marty Bodrog:
Republican Steve Lonegan is running against Cory Booker in the Senate race in New Jersey. This story is linked at Drudge, but the Drudge link doesn't have the video. Here it is: The press is mostly quiet about it. What if the roles were reversed? T-Bone could not...
That's what this Prius driver is. From Randy: A couple of bumper stickers for you, spotted near Charlotte, NC. ...
David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, was interviewed recently on PBS and referred to Ted Cruz as "the Senator from Canada through Texas." (h/t Instapundit) I guess Brooks meant that as a shot, but it's an odd shot for Brooks to make. Brooks also was born in...
The NY Times reported on Monday that users expressed their excitement, after some assumed that the newly elected Rouhani administration was responsible for the lifted access.
The country’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has promised several times to reduce Internet censorship, and several of his cabinet ministers, including the foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, have set up Facebook pages and opened Twitter accounts, some of them quite active.Iranian Internet users reacted to the apparent unblocking on Monday as if a digital Berlin Wall had just crumbled on their computer screens.
“Hurray, I came to Facebook without using VPN,” a user called Bita posted on her wall. “Thank you Rouhani!!!,” Nima wrote.
Another user named Mehdi posted on his Facebook page, "Dear friends in America, do you believe miracles?! Well one has just apparently happened in Iran and the government in Tehran has lifted its filtering on Facebook!!!" and also tweeted, "Twitter and Facebook has been freed! Rowhani thank you!" (source AFP).
The NY Times noted at the end of Monday's article that "[Iran's] government has sometimes let the firewall blocking Facebook and Twitter slip open briefly by mistake."
In the end, that's precisely what the Iranian government is giving as the reason for the temporary unblock. Iranians awoke Tuesday only to find that their internet freedom was temporary.
An Iranian official described the temporary access as a "technical glitch," according to AFP.
Fox News primetime line up gets even stronger....
It happens in just about every mass shooting or terrorist event. The initial media reports are inaccurate, yet those hurried inaccuracies feed a political narrative that is hard to break even after the facts are "corrected." In the Newtown shooting, the wrong person was identified as...
“Our collective failure to prevent atrocity crimes in Syria over the past two and a half years will remain a heavy burden on the standing of the United Nations and its member states.” Ban Ki-Moon Secretary General of the United Nations, September 10, 2013 "The United States...
Obamacare’s start date, October 1st, is rapidly approaching. As the impending Tuesday draws nearer and nearer, new headlines are drawing attention to unsettling aspects of the system. Troubling enough was the NSA surveillance scandal this summer. Now, add sensitive medical information to the mix. Concerned citizens...
Joyce Maynard has made a kind of cottage industry out of her long-ago relationship with J.D. Salinger, who seduced her when she was a wunderkind of 18 and he a famous writer of 53 and then abruptly threw her out, leaving her to lick her...
The FBI identified the deceased gunman in today’s Washington Navy Yard shooting as Aaron Alexis. The agency released photos of him and is asking for the public's assistance in providing any information concerning Alexis. The reporting on today’s incident is still very fluid – in fact,...
Another media meme is created. Plus -- some legal lessons....
Terrorists prefer Gmail as their email provider of choice, according to the former director of the NSA and CIA. From the Washington Post: Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden stood on the pulpit of a church across from the White House on Sunday and declared Gmail...
Chemicals delivered using surface-to-surface rockets over wide area in several locations....
