Wheedling about crypto and Snowden diverts from CIA Director's full
   speech and broader critique. CIA version omits Q&A.
   [1]http://csis.org/files/attachments/151116_GSF_OpeningSession.pdf
   To be sure, commentators must promote their products to flatter their
   consumers as do spies, officials and
   armaments (crypto) producers.
   Officials buy the armaments to gain votes and post-service
   directorships, word artists blow wind to fan the flames.
   "This Is War!" Perfect for all consumers except the slaughtered, a few
   of which get ritual mourning (most ignored, unreported, unsacrelized,
   unheroricized, unencrypted).
   Hard to tell the difference between opportunistic warmongerers or
   anti-warmongerers, so ying and yang in complicity.
   At 10:03 AM 11/17/2015, you wrote:

     1.
     [2]https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_attacks_b.ht
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     [3]https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-par
     is-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis
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     <<As Paris reels from terrorist attacks that have claimed at least
     128 lives, fierce blame for the carnage is being directed toward
     American whistleblower Edward Snowden and the spread of strong
     encryption catalyzed by his actions. Now the Paris attacks are being
     used an excuse to demand back doors>>
     <<how can “officials” and their media stenographers persist in
     trying to convince people of such a blatant, easily disproven
     falsehood: namely, that Terrorists learned to hide their
     communications from Snowden’s revelations? They do it because of how
     many benefits there are from swindling people to believe this. To
     begin with, U.S officials are eager here to demonize far more than
     just Snowden
     They want to demonize encryption generally as well as any companies
     that offer it. Indeed, as these media accounts show, they’ve been
     trying for two decades to equate the use of encryption anything that
     keeps them out of people’s private onlinee communications with
     aiding and abetting The Terrorists>>
     <<Above all, there’s the desperation to prevent people from asking
     how and why ISIS was able to spring up seemingly out of nowhere and
     be so powerful, able to blow up a Russian passenger plane, a market
     in Beirut, and the streets of Paris in a single week. That’s the one
     question Western officials are most desperate not to be asked, so
     directing people’s ire to Edward Snowden and strong encryption is
     beneficial in the extreme>>
     <<There’s the related question of how ISIS has become so well-armed
     and powerful. There are many causes, but a leading one is the role
     played by the U.S. and its “allies in the region” (i.e., Gulf
     tyrannies) in arming them>>

References

   1. https://t.co/d6tAq2PiZi
   2. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_attacks_b.html
   3. https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/