On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 08:04:35 -0500 Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
Greenwald converted the Snowden documents from State secrets owned by the U.S. government, to commercial trade secrets owned by billionaire Pierre Omidyar. Their new owners have published a fraction of those documents for financial profit and, of course, political propaganda.
I don't think the commercial-and-for-profit part of the story makes much sense. Omidyar doesn't need more money, but if he like any other greedy retard wanted more money, then he surely could expand his current business, which are 'legal', 'low risk' and profitable, relatively speaking. How much money does the intercept make? I suspect a better question is "how much money does the intercept lose"? Easiest explanation is that greenwald and co. are not publishing anything really important for the simple reason that they don't want to have their balls cut by the leaders of the free democratic world. Or, perhaps, they are accomplices of the anglo-american government. Snowden surely is no anarchist, but the kind of political illiterate person who believes in 'democracy' and 'good' government.
I do not expect anything in those documents that would have an unfavorable impact on billionaires in general or Omidyar in particular to be published.
When is a leak not a leak? I'm not sure, but the Snowden Affair looks like an example.
:o/