MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By John Cassidy, Rational Irrationality @ newyorker.com, Jan. 16, 2014
Home page lede: Don't Trust Obama on Surveillance. Having run for office as a strident critic of Bush’s intelligence ambitions, the President has emerged as the most prominent enabler and defender of the system.
Along similar lines, also see:
Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying
By Peter Baker, New York Times, Jan. 15/16, 2014
And:
State of Deception
Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?
by Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker, Dec. 16, 2013