As a matter of fact I would expect the conversation to begin again with a new National Security Adviser. She hasn't spoken to the media and I am confident filling the shoes of Tom Donilon is not a simple one. I am sure she is busy.
The revelations of Mr. Snowden has caused not simply uproar in the USA in some quarters, but, has begun an international reaction that has yet to be realized.
Former Ambassador Rice has started as National Security Adviser today. She probably took the lead over the weekend, but, her first official day was today.
Elspeth Reeve
11:55 AM ET
When President Obama referred (click here) to Edward
Snowden as a "hacker," it might have been meant as an insult, but it was
accurate. While National Security Agency officials have been referring
to Snowden as a "systems administrator" — which makes him sound like an
unimportant office drone, an "IT guy," as many have called him — he was actually an "infrastructure analyst," he told The Guardian. That means he was a kind of hacker, but he wasn't hacking the NSA, The New York Times's Scott Shane and David E. Sanger
explain. He was hacking the world for the NSA. It's one of the many
ways NSA and Obama administration officials have shaded the truth in the wake of Snowden's revelations. Here are some other little untruths, and at least one whopper:...
