more lies from agent snowden

[Punk]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 16:42:02 -0400
John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:


> 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.

	I have to admit, such a hypothesis is at least partially plausible. So is snowden still following CIA's orders? 

	Another explanation is that regardless of snowden's half hearted attempt at throwing a wrench, gpvcorp just followed a predefined path. Even without more disinfo and fake public empowerment by snowden, the increase in govcorp power was bound to happen. 


> 
> 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.


	I guess that's true to some degree. No doubt some 'contractors' and 'experts' can point at the snowden affair as a good excuse to spend a few more trillions in 'national security'. 


 
> 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.
>