The White House credibility deficit; "When we can´t trust what government tells us, we come to trust those whom government doesn´t trust."

From the UK Guardian: "According to Britons, Americans are incapable of irony – and our president is certainly proving their point.
"In his address about Egypt's military coup – or whatever bowdlerizing euphemism is permitted this week in Washington – Obama condemned the notion that "security trumps individual freedom." Really?
"After his press conference announcing an oversight commission for the NSA, it emerged that the NSA's truth-challenged director of national intelligence, James Clapper, would apparently oversee the oversight. The White House had to explain the joke, and then said Clapper would merely facilitate."