WELCOME TO THE PARTY, GUYS: European Press Now Questioning Obama’s Competence. Plus: “How in the world could the NSA allow a random employee of a contractor, Booz Allen, who had been on the ‘job’ for only a couple of months, such unfettered and apparently uncharted access to secret materials? The fact that the NSA did so is the best argument against that agency’s being a trustworthy custodian of Americans’ secrets.” Indeed. Also: “The NSA has wonderful technical capabilities to spy on everyone in the world, but can’t figure out how its own contract employee made off with a pocket full of secrets. Maybe that’s a sign that the U.S. would be ill-advised to go down the road of totalitarian, all-knowing government.”

As always, “totalitarian” is easier than “all-knowing.”