It is herein that Parry cuts to the chase: '[A]lmost no one outside Official Washington believes what senior U.S. officials say about nearly anything--and that loss of trust is exacerbating a wide range of dangers, from demagogy on the 2016 campaign trail to terrorism recruitment.'
In what speaks further volumes about matters of integrity and credibility, he added:
'President Obama seems to want so desperately to be one of the elite inhabitants of Washington's bubble, he keeps pushing narratives he knows aren't true, all the better to demonstrate that he belongs in the in-crowd. It has reached the point that he speaks out [of] so many sides of his mouth no one can tell what his words actually mean.'
Others have highlighted the Obama credibility and integrity gaps, including Edward Snowden no less.
In a 2014 interview with James Bamford in Wired magazine, the whistle-blower and former National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor indicated he initially held off on exposing their illegal, massive data collection and domestic surveillance and practices. This decision as we know, along with pissing off a lot of people in the US government and the National Security State, stunned the world, and made him a household name, a global brand, and a political pariah in one fell swoop. And depending on which side of the fence one sat, either a hero or a traitor!
With Obama about to be elected, he did so because he felt the political environment for blowing the whistle would be more conducive under the new president. As Snowden told Bamford, 'I think even Obama's critics were impressed and optimistic about the values he represented.'
The way Snowden saw it, [Obama's position was] 'we're not going to sacrifice our rights. We're not going to change who we are just to catch some small percentage more terrorists.'
But Snowden quickly grew disappointed as Obama began to show his true colours. Clearly in his view, the values Obama presented on the campaign trail weren't really the ones he actually represented once in office. As Snowden saw it, more than just failing to follow through on his lofty rhetoric or fulfill [the] promises made during the election, [Obama],
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