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- “President Barack Obama—who today at West Point offered a recalibration of his foreign policy—has made no catastrophic missteps in his conduct of foreign policy over his term-and-a-half in office…Foreign policy, for him, is a management challenge: containing threats, quieting unhappy allies, limiting damage. There is no particular vision associated with his detached, cold-eyed approach to foreign affairs.” [Jeffrey Goldberg/Bloomberg]
- “The much-hyped interview was scant on new policy details, but provided an articulate and resolute Snowden with another opportunity to keep both himself and surveillance reform relevant as Congress debates how much it should limit the government’s bulk data collection authority.” [National Journal]
- Here is the damning data [TIME]
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