Comment by throwaway654329

Yes, he appears to be unreasonably dismissive of the blindly obvious history and the current situation.

As an aside, this tracks with his choice of employers - at least one of which was a known and documented NSA collaborator (as well as a victim, irony of irony) before he took the job with them.

As Upton Sinclair remarked: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Joining Google after Snowden revealed PRISM and BULLRUN, as well as MUSCULAR, is almost too rich to believe, Meanwhile he asserts and dismisses Bernstein as a conspiracy theorist. It’s a classic bad faith ad-hominem coincidence theory.