I'm getting really sick of the whole "Comrade Eddie" BS from some

[nenagh]

265. Thank you Octafish again for all the reading material...

although I find it nearly painful to read.

'Carlyle had "nurtured a reputation as a financially sophisticated asset manager"...but now the light of the Snowden revelations has revealed nothing more than two companies ..."bound by the thread of turning government secrets into profits"

A veritable Rumpelstiltskinian arrangement and one can only think of dark and darker manipulations.

And, as you say, get the goods on everybody: think Eliot Spitzer for one.

I am always so pleasantly surprised that Edward Snowden, not only has the technical knowledge and the courage to do what he did... but he is also a thoughtful man with excellent verbal ability. Well, that is my impression.

The two are not necessarily found together... the English exam at the local University often causes quite a lot of angst among many Engineering students.. who may have good visualization and mathematical ability... but the written word? Not so much.

I always get such a chuckle out of the fact that "high school drop out" has not been used as a slight against Edward Snowden, since the early days. Poor optics.

Thanks again for the reading material.. You know, it strikes me how easy it was to put my head in the sand during all the time I was working. Well I did read Antonia Juhasz "The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time" but by the time I read about the economic changes put in place by Bremmer, Iraq had become too unsafe to implement the changes envisioned, I think..

It seems we can be easily bamboozled by flag waving instead of thinking as you so wisely said: "If Carlyle owns the Means odds are they would want to know about the Take."