more lies from agent snowden

[John Young]

Still, take a step back from the delirium of Snowden's amply 
curtailed revelations (far more withheld than disclosed, with the 
non-disclosed supposedly junked by the principal holders as not worthy).

Consider Snowden's well-prepared resume in contracting for the US's 
two premier spy agencies, his advance as a technical wizard able to 
move among spy infrastructure nodes of the Big 2 on the global ground 
and in cyberspace (earth and data overlapping at the CPU). This 
despite spies avowed tough vetting of contractors and employees and 
rapid growth after 9/11.

Possible, probable, likely, Snowden's initiative and exile is a 
sophisticated disinfo op developed in response to the rise in leaks 
(real and bogus) of sensitive information by the new-fangled internet 
-- itself a fabulously successful disinfo op to foster the notion of 
public empowerment (concealing data harvesting), along with heavily 
promoted tools like PKC, anonymity and Tor which Snowden is avidly 
promoting despite shortcomings in all of them which has burned and 
imprisoned of not a few believers.

Looked at this way the Snowden affair does not differ much from a 
number of legacy and current decoys, implants, insertions, 
double-crosses which are ancient bread and butter spy cuisine, quite 
a few decades old before redacted disclosures (orchestrated leaks), 
others ostensibly never to be revealed so long as useful in fattening 
"national security journalists". NSA and CIA have seldomed reaped 
such enriching budget increases by Snowden's "treason" short of 
cold/hot war and terrorism.

Snowden's book is pretty banal, as even he admits. So too are his 
tweets and public appearances. Nothing like the feverish disclosures 
of the burgeoning hyperbolic leak-privacy-journalism industry, a la 
WikiLeaks and emulators. Citizen 4 was much better, slick, artful, 
dramatic. Corny, as were, are, WikiLeaks, its fandom and DoJ dawdling 
prosecution.

When will Snowden no longer be useful to the spy-journalism industry 
for recruiting, publicity and funding? What will be done with cooling 
stars like Snowden, Manning, Assange and those leeching off their 
dimming shine? Pardons for the novas if they live, followed by tours 
and security consultancies, or unnamed stars incised in marble, 
website memorials in FOI, if they die. Or most likely, medical 
issues, isolation, last wills, then carted on guernies, natsec press 
alerted for photos, autopsies inconclusive.