On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
the first corroborating evidence that this person ever existed.
The internet archived some photographic prehistory, and families/friends have made a few post statements.
Now she appears as the most influential person in Ed's life during the time frame when he decided to abandon his entire way of life and become a fugitive facing life in prison for the sake of a Holy Quest.
Questioning whether Ed Snowden was really a free agent, vs. an unwitting agent exploited by a U.S. (or other) intelligence operation, is obviously out of bounds. So that's what I do.
No, your questioning is perfectly valid. Those who simply don't ask or investigate questions, or fail to report answers... may in fact wind up missing something. In the spy/secrets game, sex, cash, travel and so on are powerful and common tools of the trade. She could easily be an agent (if so, why would USA let that go silent), or even just a rat designed to troll out and capture NSA's weak links (if so, it seems to have gone very wrong, and would also not warrant silence). For that matter, the documents themselves should be questioned and verified independantly. Such as trolling through AT&T's trash, digging up cable taps, listening to CEO's outing and trashing their secret relationships with TLA's, and more leakers standing up now that they see how to do it [better]. (Note, as far as deep verification goes, there's actually not much on the record, and that's a problem.) Do most people believe these things, no, in part because good journalism is still generally backing up the known pre and post history. But these and other propositions are valid questions that must always be considered.
http://globalresearch.ca/nsa-deception-operation-questions-surround-leaked-p... Is it possible that the PRISM leak was intended to mislead the American people into dramatically under-estimating the real domestic surveillance capabilities of our National Security Agency? You might well think so, but this reporter could not possibly comment.