Snowden understands that the programs he revealed are fundamentally in conflict with the very basis of a just society; the two cannot co-exist.
"They think, 'What's the role of technology in that?' " But if the social worker had access to a client database, Mr. Saltzman said, "and they understood that the program they work for is also serving the abusive father, they could be even more effective".
And Americans understand that the program is just and fair in its design.
In the PEPFAR evaluation, the issue of context surfaced early during design of the evaluation, as the committee understood that the program impact pathway for PEPFAR operations was embedded in the context of many other factors in each country; the evaluation team then examined a variety of indicators across countries to give a contextual background to PEPFAR's operating environment.
When, in fact, they don't understand that the programs are far more intrusive and far more significant than any jail term," Hay said.
"We quickly came to understand that the M.F.A. program we believed we would be attending was being pulled out from under our feet," they wrote; prolonged negotiations with the administration had left them feeling "betrayed, exhausted, disrespected, and cheated".
And perhaps it helps anxious parents to understand that children are programmed to react like this.
But the problem is here is that people don't understand that this program was not about hurting anybody.
"Viewers have been trained for 50 years to understand that networks provide throwaway programming in the summer, but then shows like 'American Idol' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' premiered in summer, and audiences took to them," says the Fox Entertainment president, Gail Berman.
If they did, they would understand that AmeriCorps is the kind of government program they ought to support.
