The "Gaslighting and Guesswork" Edition

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🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Vice Presidential candidates face off in their first and only debate before Election Day. Senators have buyers remorse over a law that lets families of 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia. And can the NSA keep its own secrets?

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0:28.0	So I'm embarrassed to admit this but I have no frickin idea what gas lighting is. I don't know what it is. Okay, thank you. Thank you for your unpopular confession.
0:32.0	I don't know what it is either.
0:33.2	Hello and welcome to rational security,
0:41.3	the Gas Lighting and Guesswork edition. I'm Shane Harris of the
0:45.4	Daily Beast. I engage in guesswork all the time about gas lighting.
0:49.2	And particularly this week. Oh this week, slow news week, huh? Yeah. Yeah, not much going on.
0:55.0	No. Not like we had a vice presidential debate or anything.
0:58.0	You know, or like, you know, leaks and major investigations and, you know.
1:02.6	That wasn't a debate then.
1:05.9	Technically.
1:07.2	Well they were sitting down by the way.
1:08.9	Did you notice that Sarah Palin tweeted that she was like with the only vice presidential
1:12.3	debate where you had to stand up in like the past four or five that she tweeted
1:13.0	tweeted a picture of the red high heels
1:15.0	and she tweeted a picture of the red high heels
1:18.6	stilettos that she was standing in.
1:20.3	I have to admit I had like a moment of like good for you Sarah Palin.
1:23.4	You know what they were going to stand on these damn shoes.
1:25.8	She had to do it just like the man except backwards and in high heels.
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