-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/2017 07:33 AM, Ryan Carboni wrote:
Snowden's timing was interesting, it overshadowed Manning's trial. His movie too was interesting.
Greewald's timing was exact and deliberate: He reportedly fought with his editors to get the publication date of the PRISM slides pushed up to the opening day of Manning's court martial. This knocked Manning all the way out of the news.
I have written down so notes on the movie. Also, my cell phone works fine in the microwave.
Snowden was running around on two broken legs for weeks until it shattered, not from training but from jumping from his top bunk.
Snowden's service record as reported never made sense to me, either. Pencil neck geeks rarely volunteer for Special Forces, are never taken when they do, and none of that happens during basic training.
Twenty-three minutes: Talks about thinthread, but without filters, drowning in data (???).
I didn't catch that one. Hmm...
Fifty-two minutes: need experienced journalists to lead the public through a complex story
The whole business about how Journalists have some elevated, priestly status, running through Snowden's narrative non-stop, always sticks out as bizarre. Journalists are a priestly caste, so let's hand a zillion or so classified documents to an attorney who rose to celebrity status as a political commentator? Yeah right... Not mentioned in the film, Mr. Greenwald's $250 million payout when he sold rights to the documents he reportedly promised Snowden would all be released to the public within ten days of breaking the first story. To date, every result of the Snowden Saga has been beneficial to the Security State. The State has won every legal challenge resulting from those releases, establishing its "right" to collect everything on everyone, restrained only by its own technical capabilities. As a bonus, it has been established that the DCI can lie to Congress and break into Congress members' computers with NO consequences of ANY kind. The great unwashed publick, already timid enough, is now on notice that Big Brother is in fact watching them. The Snowden Saga looked hinky to me from the beginning. My own guess is that he was/is an unwitting agent, a malleable malcontent spotted early by an Insider Threat program and picked from a field of candidates to front for a limited hangout aimed at achieving all the goals outlined above. Part of "fighting the Internet" and dealing with damaging leaks is to get out in front with your own narrative and dominate the market for leaks and leakers. If Ed Snowden did not exist, it would have been necessary to create him. :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYox80AAoJEECU6c5XzmuqzWUIAMtNJqlJeHRUAATN/I9R8xKV UfQhzHeNrM4FZ6c+Kau7Bi2+5oPGaBvvrNkNxXp/uaciIlfjbKPyasCTfaFjO53v IM1YdtI+Skp5wpIeL1WRpF1/sfJlXmK9xcifAzSs0Mb+blWOvpMlkAry1lkX6uv/ MGhrxptKC9S2tT1hUUndaL7M/LI8Yol25bkBwg5zaiOppcqYFDlUT+XuyHcKH2q7 NC4oIXbmWt7SffH08OnbqMFexh4zuSHuomEYingGOuaVuieeixSM4jnE1K/ggMEC kh1l/OrRw+oUVz5DfrFfpseoIyqFSdPudcpxwDaMF4UaxHgIca1oRvc4S8ydNQo= =nAzK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----