On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 04:05:54 -0700, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Even now the representatives of the government, NGOs ACLU, EFF, MSM and Freedom of the Press are negotiating a deal for Snowden for his return to the US, following the Ellsberg precedent. The USG appears to be willing to make a deal with all sides claiming victory "for the people." When such deals are primarily beneficial to the secretkeepers and interpreters and judges of what the public is allowed to know while "protecting national security."
Speaking of Ellsberg, there's more to the man's backstory than most of you were probably aware of, listen to this fantastic interview with Douglas Valentine for the juicy bits. [1] "Interview 709 – Douglas Valentine on Ellsberg and the CIA Corbett • 07/17/2013 Today we’re joined once again by author and researcher Douglas Valentine of DouglasValentine.com to talk about his article “Will the Real Daniel Ellsberg Please Stand Up?” We discuss his little-known experience as a Pentagon observer to the CIA’s Revolutionary Development (RD) Program in South Vietnam from 1965 to 1967, the cast of disreputable CIA officers, drug runners and murderers that he was involved with there, and the accusation that the CIA ordered him to release the Pentagon Papers to take pressure off of investigations that were looking into the role of the agency in Vietnam at that time. We also explore why the establishment left refuses to examine this aspect of Ellsberg’s famed whistleblowing story." [1] https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-709-douglas-valentine-on-ellsberg-an...