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...smug bullshitter, thinking his job is done, sits back...
Towards the end of the book, Keefe describes how previous investigative journalists ran into trouble with the NSA trying to block the publication of their books. Keefe himself describes how he met with only smug disregard when he tried to leverage his own investigative work in order to get interviews with NSA officials. Which begs the question: if the NSA doesn’t care that we read this, how secret can the information in Chatter really...
...rule in Hollywood is there are no rules,” a junior agent says, smiling like a smug demigod...
...That was a rare moment of passion during a soporific day of questioning. Indeed, all of Washington seems buried under a goose-down comforter of complacency these days. The Republicans are smug, the Democrats disconsolate. The news from Iraq grows worse, but the electorate didn't seem to care about the President's Mesopotamian malfeasance in November, so why get all het up about it now? The astounding news that the Bush Administration was involved in reinterpreting the rules for the use of torture-a fact that has been known since the relevant Justice Department memo was leaked last June...
...right and an excellent teacher; he’s the guy everyone wants to study with. And the buzz among the faculty seems to be equally positive, at least if the casual comments made by other professors to their students—not to mention the smug looks and smiling faces of the faculty members in attendance on Friday night—are any indication...