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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Hillary Clinton and Edward Snowden: The Imperial Handmaid’s Tale

Hillary Clinton and Edward Snowden: The Imperial Handmaid’s Tale

By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.” –Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
And no question: Hillary Clinton is a hard worker. What’s most striking about how Clinton plays handmaid to the empire — after, during, and before her tenure as Secretary of State — is not what she says, but what she doesn’t say. Willful ignorance is especially evident in her discussion of Edward Snowden and his contribution to restoring the Fourth Amendment to some degree of function, but to put her views on Snowden in context, I first have to look at her views on Iraq, and then her views on how Obama whacks U.S. citizens without due process Anwar al-Awlaki. In all cases her views show her fitness for the office of the Presidency in the minds of the political class, which is to say her unfitness, exactly as Obama was unfit in 2008. And so to Iraq:

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