-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/2015 01:58 PM, The Doctor wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 09:53:56 -0700 Shelley <shelley@misanthropia.org> wrote:
There are no sacred cows. There is only data, and whatever truth is borne out of it whether or not it's the answer we wish to see. The scientific method and all, you know, that most of us hold dear.
This is the Internet! You can't say something reasonable! J'accuse!
<grin>
Snowden is not infallible. Cryptome/JY are not infallible. Hell, even Ellsberg isn't infallible (as we were recently reminded.)
This. So much this.
And all because somebody got bent out of shape over comments made re attempting to challenge the attribution of a "leaked" document? That amounts to less than an ant fart in a tornado, in context? Lest we forget, the original PRISM slides were, at minimum, heavily altered by the Guardian and/or Post. Everyone who was paying any real attention at the time knows it. No firestorm of controversy followed. http://electrospaces.blogspot.nl/2013/06/are-nsas-prism-slides-photo shopped.html ... although it did influence my own early conclusions about the Snowden Affair, which have evolved a bit in response to subsequent events. Even so, I'm not the least embarrassed by any mistakes I may have made: http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-deception-operation-questions-surro und-leaked-prism-documents-authenticity :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWF7pwAAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0LDbYQAMdPAmv/b1pCoFpgfCad0UJk tZONmNYA+9LKm76fC2diLc7Cs4qsyJ5zLZPdNXEbxYhhBt7rPY4G2+7RGePW0+rq Oc3yZgkMSR0pknzTkBi5l0YpC45YUzTnI2WptHuCtVcvlTKhDkYbE4GQIO5RvFDb eIfP0AL7POXVCxwX/Lyh7LNpsU8Hfig5CL4+9pAr5roGcW9TXhOca+f6QvPXsq/F j9W3pfjqfPttQu/kRftP0BXsnPIOziVvp1kLr1MdkJ5glIW4xTQ3+lYTNG0J42VD 1D0vyGTv+tqb52uy/HyUMBL4dtGNLKwyQEN2pb43D6E5PkonYCfJ4rY+1rZxLdhr C9aqhUXMkPzUaf9tz3yFbRPfT8r7EHl/cybDAFacBU9VDBkD7/vEZ5vi0SU0CXf9 UIU9S/gdBFEC5gMmSzrGujt5r2dirFdQ+kfePlyvPlImtLassJTjWyFfwt9lwLqU 2wK3ztEcUherWSX5SsVXVnzMfvCI6vfKS3DwSX+FeWUg5ZFLI4SgHJNJQtcNhSLi ZgSd5XI+gySL12emmHZhNY1YyZM+CyyqCawJ5uQso9qV/uJNxJ6ofUrK7J1Necui LRgzE4LiTrTNLL59iA9AAHy2uEfvOfk1/Vx7z6TMNhvNeItBMpwRdHQ3VmthwluK PpTGusLjWwATGWZQ8v1/ =khsS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----