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These slides? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/07/t...;

They look like they were made with MS Paint. CNET and James Clapper says this is all bullshit.

Maybe we should stop drawing conclusions about a story that is developing and extremely foggy until it clears up a little more?

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If you have ever seen a government presentation before, you might find that the lack of design makes them more credible, not less.

I agree, less money on the power point, and more on the Utah data center[0]...and just for laughs, lets not forget Ryan Fogle[1], the CIA agent captured in russia.

[0]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter&#x...;

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/ryan-fogle-cia_n_32...

The comment about MS Paint is one of the stupidest, most naive things I have ever seen on HN. Have you every worked for a company or organization outside of SV? Nobody gives a shit what your slides look like in the real world. Sure, ideally slides wouldn't look like crap, but since most "normal" people don't even notice, nobody tries very hard.

Eh, I'll say this much, the design really does scream "GOVERNMENT PRESENTATION" all over it.

Even the issues about the slight differences between WaPo and Guardian variants of the slides are easy to explain with different versions of Microsoft Office (or even using LibreOffice to try to open).

Ed Bott on CNET says its all bullshit, ok we should all just go home then. excuse me while I http://trololololololololololo.com

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