What can you say when formal newswire services refer to physical
mail as “snail mail” without the ironic quotes? Like it’s the
actual term used for mail sent through the United States Postal
Service. That’s how wire service Agence France-Presse calls mail in
the lede of its piece describing how
former President Jimmy Carter is now using letters, envelopes
and postage to correspond with foreign leaders, thanks to
revelations of National Security Agency surveillance:
“When I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I
type or write a letter myself, put it in the post office, and mail
it,” Carter said with a laugh, as he was questioned on the matter
on NBC’s Meet the Press program.“I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored,”
he said on the Sunday show. …Asked whether the programs were necessary, Carter said he
thought they had “been extremely liberalized and, I think, abused
by our own intelligence agencies.”
It was only a small part of the interview by Andrea Mitchell.
Watch the rest below.
Special awful anti-bonus: Earlier in Meet the Press
Sunday, GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, chair of the House Intelligence
Committee, promoting vague “do-something”-ism in Ukraine (send them
small weapons and medical supplies!) and insisting that everybody
in the intelligence believes that Edward Snowden is “under the
influence of Russian intelligence services today,” despite not
actually being able to provide any evidence that supports his
claim. Watch below:
Full transcript of the episode is
here.
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