I'm a little puzzled here. Remember the Outrageous! Outrageous!

[MannyGoldstein]

IRS pretend scandal a month or two ago? The one where everyone said "Outrageous!" a lot because some Republican at the IRS thought that organizations with the phrase "Tea Party" in their names might have a political purpose? Where Holder started a criminal investigation? The one where the only harm done was that a few tea party groups were delayed in getting tax-exempt status?

In that pretend scandal, the head of the IRS - who was not head of the IRS when the Outrageous! behavior occurred, and actually had zero to do with said outrageous behavior - was fired within days.

Let's now turn to the Snowden situation. Snowden, a 29-year-old relatively new hire, was given access to, and able to take home, massive volumes of information that (we are told) is so supermegasecret that we're now totally fucked as a nation, our deepest secrets revealed for all of our enemies to grok.

So, as Sen. Leahy asked today, why hasn't anyone been fired for letting this happen? Where's the scalp of the head of the NSA, who actually was the head of the NSA when this happened? Why is the director of national security still in place after giving Congress admittedly untruthful answers?

WTF is going on here? Could the incompetence and prevarication be any worse?