change!

The Census Bureau, the authoritative source of health insurance data for more than three decades, is changing its annual survey so thoroughly that it will be difficult to measure the effects of President Obama’s health care law in the next report, due this fall, census officials said.

But of course!

Q&A

Сноуден задаёт вопрос Путину:

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden joined a public question-and-answer session with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow via video.
Snowden asked Putin if Russia had similar surveillance programs as the United States--referring to the mass collection and storage of data from individuals around the world.

Путин, как положено, начинает с мелкого вранья (Сноуден никогда не был шпионом и агентом, конечно же, он был системным администратором):

“Mr. Snowden, you are a former agent, a spy, I used to be working for an intelligence service, we are going to talk one professional language,” Putin began, via a translator.

и продолжает враньём большим:

“We don’t have a mass system of such interception, and according to our law, it cannot exist,” he said. “But we do not have a mass scale uncontrollable efforts like that, I hope we won’t do that and we don’t have as much money as they have in the States, and we don’t have these technical devices that they have in the States.”

Судьба Сноудена, по-видимости, становится всё более незавидной. За относительную свободу ему придётся платить участием в подобных спектаклях в роли белого клоуна, он же straight man. Наверное, всё-таки лучше, чем где-нибудь в supermax одиночке...