Cenk hosting today. After James Clapper was obviously lying about the NSA’s collection of Americans’ phone records, he clarified his bumbling comments by saying he was the least untruthful as he could be. Rep Peter King defended Clapper due to the sensitive nature of the information he was unable to talk about. The NSA Director testified about how the program thwarted many terrorist plots. In reality, the plots that were disrupted were not via the phone taps the way it was described. The NSA Director also told Sen Collins that he’s never heard of the program being able to tap into anyone’s phone calls. Peter King continued his defense of the NSA by going after reporters and specifically Glenn Greenwald for even reporting leaked information.
The full switch up of Conservatives that are suddenly against the NSA and Liberals that are for it. Bill O’Reilly and Juan Williams play these roles. Video of John Bolton speculating that Snowden isn’t working alone since he had such great access to highly classified material. Sen Jon Tester pointed out that Snowden hasn’t actually compromise national security. Shia Labeouf spoke years ago with Jay Leno about an odd conversation he had with an FBI consultant about how they recorded an old conversation he had. Edward Snowden spoke with a Chinese news source said he’s neither a hero or traitor. He also revealed that we’ve been spying on Chinese information, too. Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo criticized the “silence” of Islamic leaders when terrorist attacks occur, calling them complicit. The main problem is that Islamic leaders weren’t silent when Muslim radicals executed terrorist plots. In arguing against a Democratic amendment to allow women that are victims of rape or incest to have an abortion after 20 weeks, he said that instances of pregnancies from rapes are very low. EW Jackson, candidate for Lt. Governor for Virginia wrote about book about the 10 Commandments for an Extraordinary Life, and misspelled Commandments.