Obama, Hillary Clinton and other government officials have said that Snowden should have "gone through proper channels" instead of publicly blowing the whistle.
But we pointed out in 2013 that there are no proper channels Snowden could have gone through.
Following the release of the damning report by the State Department Inspector General, which as we noted earlier, found not only that Hillary's error to surrender all emails violated government policy, but that her use of private email for public business was “not an appropriate method” of preserving documents and that her practices failed to comply with department policies meant to ensure that federal record laws are followed, everyone was waiting for the official response from Hillary's camp. It came out moments ago from Reuters.
Russia’s Deputy Chief of General Staff met his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Tuesday to discuss strategic military cooperation. According to TASS: China was represented by Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission Admiral Sun Jianguo, Russia – by Chief of the Main Operations Department of the Russian General Staff Lieutenant General Sergey Rudskoy.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has begun telling confidants that he wants to end his standoff with Donald Trump according to Bloomberg. Just 3 weeks after "just not being ready" to endorse Trump, and 2 weeks after signalling "unity" having met with The Donald; it seems the speaker's decision, according to two people close to the lawmaker, was driven in part because he’s worried the split has sharpened divisions in the Republican Party.
Just 10 days ago we asked, What is Ryan up to?
ThinkProgress slammed the NRA over the weekend. The gun group supports federal legislation to let felons win their firearm rights back—something that is essentially impossible for those convicted in federal court. (It’s determined state-by-state otherwise.) But the organization’s executive vice president recently criticized moves in Virginia and Maryland to restore felons’ voting rights.
The point is fair, but it cuts both ways. Efforts to restore voting rights typically leave gun rights untouched, too.