White House: "We expect" Hong Kong to comply with Snowden extradition [video]
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There is "To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come;" and "To consider obligatory or required."
I "expect" the Obama administration to value the spirit of the constitution (using the second sense of the word), but I do not "expect" it (using the first). Many people also expected or continue to expect it in the first sense.
They really, really weren't. Domestic surveillance was one of the smallest, least talked about topics in Obama's election. Any, if we're honest about it, will also be in 2016. Hacker News is working itself up into a frenzy about it, but the country at large does not care.
44% of the country cares. Dare not dismiss the a minority opinion just because it's just under the threshold of the majority.
Don't get me wrong, I know Obama talked about the topic. I just think that very, very few people voted on the basis of what he said.
That also applies to the 44% figure. Yes, they care. But come voting time, will they vote on the basis of the NSA or on the economy? I'd place a large wager that it'll be the latter.
That was because he was conspicuously vague on almost everything. Big on "hope" and "change", not so much on specifics.
If the fact that the nefarious actions of the US government are the major point of discussion on the main technology sites you visit are not a red flag to you, then maybe your worldview is what really needs this information in order to be better corrected.
I'm impressed this "senior administration official" deadpanned that line in the wake of all this 4th amendment discussion. bravo, sir.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/06...
The rule of law can't have any meaning if it only applies when it fits your protocol.