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Have you ever had the pleasure of dealing with an agent of the Federal government? For example, have you been audited by the IRS? Did you notice what the “Agent” does to gain access to his (or her) computer—by inserting a “Smart ID” into a slot? Did you ask how your personal information is protected from disclosure or theft? What is to prevent the Agent from copying files to a thumb drive and taking them home?
Regarding the Smart ID, the “HSPD-12” is discussed in this publicly available article; please note the following:
HSPD-12, FIPS 201 and the PIV Card
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), issued by President George W. Bush on August 27, 2004, mandated the establishment of a standard for identification of Federal government employees and contractors. HSPD-12 requires the use of a common identification credential for both logical and physical access to federally controlled facilities and information systems. The Department of Commerce and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were tasked with producing a standard for secure and reliable forms of identification. In response, NIST published Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 201 (FIPS 201), Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors, issued on February 25, 2005, and a number of special publications that provide more detail on the implementation of the standard.
Both Federal agencies and enterprises have implemented FIPS 201-compliant ID programs and have issued PIV cards. The FIPS 201 PIV card is a smart card with both contact and contactless interfaces that is now being issued to all Federal employees and contractors…
Additional information about FIPS 201 can be found on the Government Identity/Credentialing Resources page, from NIST, and from the Secure Technology Alliance Access Control Council.
If you engage the IRS employee in conversation, remembering the adage you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, you’ll learn the computer cannot be compromised—all data on the device are encrypted; the only access to it is via the Smart ID. Data can be copied to an external “thumb drive” but everything copied will be encrypted; any file on that thumb drive is only readable by that specific device. Wouldn’t this be true of NSA devices as well? Why does Snowden never discuss dealing with such encryption: how would it be possible?
In the Oliver Stone movie Snowden, as well as in any of Snowden’s descriptions of how he accessed the NSA computers, did you note either the depiction or reference to this universal Smart ID? How could Snowden be exempt from its requirement? Why wasn’t its use, which is public knowledge, shown or discussed? Per the above, the Smart ID is deployed in all government agencies: there are no exceptions. And while the financial portion (think of all those Goldman Sachs alumni at the U.S. Department of the Treasury) is likely the most powerful part of the financial-military-industrial-media-congressional complex that is the central power of the federal government, do you think that IRS systems are different and superior in security to what was employed by a contractor working for Booze-Allen Hamilton at the NSA? How many reading my words work at a large entity, not necessarily government, let us say a Fortune 1000 or higher? Do you have the ability to copy data unimpeded onto any external device? Can you surf the Internet at will? Or is everything you do on the computer network under constant, real-time scrutiny?
Did Edward Snowden, who has publicly criticized Google, mention Google is deployed as a search engine throughout the federal “intranet”? And can he catch a link to the Washington Post on the NSA homepage too? Or would he testify and can it be verified that NSA does not use Google (for example to obtain the PowerPoint he revealed) for searching for internal documents and procedures? Can anyone reading my words answer the questions I’ve posed so far and answer accurately and honestly with confirmatory evidence?
Edward Snowden would have us believe that the Eye of Sauron didn’t notice he was looking at gigabytes of data unrelated to his job function and using his computer to copy the data to external devices over a lengthy period of time. Are his supporters alleging he is so clever he could disappear from the “Eye of Sauron’s” view and be unnoticed? If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Crimea. ZeroHedge reported “IRS Agent Charged In Leak Of Michael Cohen Transactions To Michael Avenatti.” From the article:
John C. Fry, an analyst in the San Francisco IRS office who had worked for the agency since 2008, was charged with disclosing Cohen’s Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) – nine months after we reported that it wouldn’t be difficult to track down the leaker due to a digital trail left behind from accessing the system.
However, don’t believe it takes nine months to identify such an unauthorized intrusion. Don’t think every keystroke isn’t monitored in real-time. So my question is: would the NSA, which has much more sensitive data (especially compromising information on the governing class) than tax returns and financial transactions have inferior capabilities than the IRS as to maintaing data security? Are we to believe the NSA lacks a “digital trail” when it comes to classified documents?
On another issue, why did Snowden provide his files to known house organs of Intelligence Agencies, specifically the Washington Post and The Guardian, and not give them to Wikileaks to allow a publicly available searchable database? As Roger Stone has noted, the odious Nixon was taken down principally by the CIA media front The Washington Post because he sought detente with Russia and another presidential assassination would have been too obvious. Notice the situation regarding the Snowden treasure trove as investigative journalist Whitney Webb writes about it here: “Silencing the Whistle: The Intercept Shutters Snowden Archive, Citing Cost.”
According to a timeline of events written by Poitras that was shared and published by journalist and former Intercept columnist Barrett Brown, both Scahill and Greenwald were intimately involved in the decision to close the Snowden archive.
While other outlets — such as the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post and the New York Times — also possess much (though not all) of the archive, the Intercept was the only outlet with the (full) archive that had continued to publish documents, albeit at a remarkably slow pace, in recent years. In total, fewer than 10 percent of the Snowden documents have been published since 2013. Thus, the closing of the publication’s Snowden archive will likely mean the end of any future publications, unless Greenwald’s promise of finding “the right partner … that has the funds to robustly publish” is fulfilled…
Yet, as Poitras pointed out, the research department accounted for a minuscule 1.5 percent of First Look Media’s budget. Greenwald’s claim that the archive was shuttered owing to its high cost to the company is also greatly undermined by the fact that he, along with several other Intercept employees — Reed and Scahill among them — receive massive salaries that dwarf those of journalists working for similar nonprofit publications.
Greenwald, for instance, received \$1.6 million from First Look Media, of which Omidyar is the sole shareholder, from 2014 to 2017. His yearly salary peaked in 2015, when he made over \$518,000. Reed and Scahill both earn well over \$300,000 annually from First Look. According to journalist Mark Ames, Scahill made over \$43,000 per article at the Intercept in 2014. Other writers at the site, by comparison, have a base salary of \$50,000, which itself is higher than the national average for journalists.
And what about Snowden himself, the pontificator, the man who can speak on television or to the media with evidence of training? Practice yourself—see how well you can answer questions and speak publicly to a TV camera. How did he get his training? Who trained him? Why? How is it that the legacy media, which applauds the slow, painful execution of Julian Assange, be in rapture over Snowden’s new book tour and provide ample coverage? Is Assange being murdered in part to prevent his providing exculpatory evidence that Russia never hacked the DNC and it was a leak?
I have provided two videos below for the reader to consider and compare.
Look at how Bill Binney, a true techno-nerd speaks and compare the difference between him with the polished interviews given by Snowden who borders on pomposity. Also, to his favor Binney is doing his best to debunk the Russia hacking narrative of the DNC; Snowden makes his thoughts about Russia and Russians clear in his latest interview with Der Spiegel promoting his new book about himself:
DER SPIEGEL: Do you have Russian friends?
Snowden: I try to keep a distance between myself and Russian society, and this is completely intentional. I live my life with basically the English-speaking community. I’m the president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. And, you know, I’m an indoor cat. It doesn’t matter where I am—Moscow, Berlin, New York — as long as I have a screen to look into.
DER SPIEGEL: Western authorities accuse the Russian government on a regular basis of being one of the biggest disrupters in the digital world. Are they right?
Snowden: Russia is responsible for a lot of negative activity in the world, you can say that right and fairly. Did Russia interfere with elections? Almost certainly. But do the United States interfere in elections? Of course. They’ve been doing it for the last 50 years. Any country bigger than Iceland is going to interfere in every crucial election, and they’re going to deny it every time, because this is what intelligence services do. This is explicitly why covert operations and influence divisions are created, and their purpose as an instrument of national power is to ask: How can we influence the world in a direction that improves our standing relative to all the other countries?
I am pleased to have played a small role in getting Stephen F. Cohen’s work published on Unz.com. He and others have effectively debunked Russian involvement in the manipulation of America elections and the conclusions of the Mueller report. To paraphrase a point Professor Cohen made in his most recent article posted here, which is simply common sense: We are to believe Trump is Putin’s puppet yet Putin simultaneously encouraged the preparation of a dossier to destroy him. Does that make sense to any one with half a brain? Do you believe Putin’s intelligence agencies don’t communicate to him how Washington as “organized crime” really operates, as Whitney Webb has disclosed, now on the pages of Unz.com? What difference does any compromised President make to the policies and goals of the occupational government of the United States (obvious to any reader of this and similar websites)?
Do you notice how Snowden never challenges any government narrative, whether it’s on Russia as a villain, and not as a victim of war initiated by Washington? Why is an alleged humanitarian such a Russophobe? Is this how he repays the nation that granted him asylum? Has he only compassion in the abstract, and is a genius but too stupid to consider the consequences of America going to war with Russia and in fact exacerbating the tension by his false and inflammatory statements about Russian conduct in the 2016 elections, for which there are no facts and evidence?
And then there’s the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings. Of course Snowden at NSA had no access to information on how and why it was done, but as Dmitri Orlov has written:
I suppose I am a “conspiracy theorist” too. Whenever I write something that questions the veracity of some official narrative, someone (probably a troll) pops up and asks me what I think of 9/11. Here is what I typically reply:
I totally believe that it was possible to knock down three steel-framed buildings using two flying aluminum cans loaded with kerosene, luggage and meat. I have proven that this is possible by throwing two beer cans at three chain-link fences. All three fences were instantly swallowed up by holes in the ground that mysteriously opened up right under them and in which they were instantaneously incinerated into fine oxide powder that coated the entire neighborhood. Anybody who does not believe my experimental results is obviously a tin-foil-hat crackpot conspiracy theorist.
Lots of people read this and ran away bleating; a few people bust a gut laughing because this is (trust me on this!) actually quite funny. Some people took offense at someone ridiculing an event in which thousands of people died. (To protect their tender sensibilities they should consider emigrating to a country that isn’t run by a bunch of war criminals.)
But if you do see the humor in this, then you may be up to the challenge, which is to pull out a useful signal (a typical experimentalist’s task) out of a mess of unreliable and contradictory data. Only then would you be in a position to persuasively argue—not prove, mind you!—that the official story is complete and utter bullshit.
Note that everything beyond that point, such as arguing what “the real story” is, is strictly off-limits. If you move beyond that point you open yourself up to well-organized, well-funded debunking. But if all you produce is a very large and imposing question mark, then the only way to attack it is by producing certainty—a very tall order! In conspiracy theory, as in guerrilla warfare, you don’t have to win. You just have to not lose long enough for the enemy to give up.
Has Snowden ever challenged the September 11 narrative, ludicrous as it is, and him being an “engineer?” And this last point is the reason I’m writing these words: I don’t have to come up with the “real story” on who Edward Snowden is and what his true motives are. I am asking questions that point out the discrepancies in Snowden’s statements and conduct and his alleged sanctity. In this article, “EXCLUSIVE REPORT: NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access to the JUICIEST Documents … Far More Damning”
WASHINGTON’S BLOG: Glenn Greenwald – supposedly, in the next couple of days or weeks – is going to disclose, based on NSA documents leaked by Snowden, that the NSA is spying on all sorts of normal Americans … and that the spying is really to crush dissent. [Background here, here and here.]
Does Snowden even have documents which contain the information which you’ve seen?
RUSSELL TICE: The answer is no.
WASHINGTON’S BLOG: So you saw handwritten notes. And what Snowden was seeing were electronic files …?
RUSSELL TICE: Think of it this way. Remember I told you about the NSA doing everything they could to make sure that the information from 40 years ago – from spying on Frank Church and Lord knows how many other Congressman that they were spying on – was hidden?
Now do you think they’re going to put that information into PowerPoint slides that are easy to explain to everybody what they’re doing?
They would not even put their own NSA designators on the reports [so that no one would know that] it came from the NSA. They made the reports look like they were Humint (human intelligence) reports. They did it to hide the fact that they were NSA and they were doing the collection. That’s 40 years ago. [The NSA and other agencies are still doing “parallel construction”, “laundering” information to hide the fact that the information is actually from mass NSA surveillance.]
Now, what NSA is doing right now is that they’re taking the information and they’re putting it in a much higher security level. It’s called “ECI” – Exceptionally Controlled Information – and it’s called the black program … which I was a specialist in, by the way.
I specialized in black world – DOD and IC (Intelligence Community) – programs, operations and missions … in “VRKs”, “ECIs”, and “SAPs”, “STOs”. SAP equals Special Access Program. It’s highly unlikely Mr. Snowden had any access to these. STO equals Special Technical Operations It’s highly unlikely Mr. Snowden had any access to these.
Now in that world – the ECI/VRK world – everything in that system is classified at a higher level and it has its own computer systems that house it. It’s totally separate than the system which Mr. Snowden was privy to, which was called the “JWICS”: Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System. The JWICS system is what everybody at NSA has access to. Mr Snowden had Sys Admin [systems administrator] authority for the JWICS.
And you still have to have TS/SCI clearance [i.e. Top Secret/ Sensitive Compartmented Information – also known as “code word” – clearance] to get on the JWICS. But the ECI/VRK systems are much higher [levels of special compartmentalized clearance] than the JWICS. And you have to be in the black world to get that [clearance].
ECI = Exceptionally Controlled Information. I do not believe Mr. Snowden had any access to these ECI controlled networks). VRK = Very Restricted Knowledge. I do not believe Mr. Snowden had any access to these VRK controlled networks.
These programs typically have, at the least, a requirement of 100 year or until death, ’till the person first being “read in” [i.e. sworn to secrecy as part of access to the higher classification program] can talk about them. [As an interesting sidenote, the Washington Times reported in 2006 that – when Tice offered to testify to Congress about this illegal spying – he was informed by the NSA that the Senate and House intelligence committees were not cleared to hear such information.]
It’s very compartmentalized and – even with stuff that they had – you might have something at NSA, that there’s literally 40 people at NSA that know that it’s going on in the entire agency.
When the stuff came out in the New York Times [the first big spying story, which broke in 2005] – and I was a source of information for the New York Times – that’s when President Bush made up that nonsense about the “terrorist surveillance program.” By the way, that never existed. That was made up.
There was no such thing beforehand. It was made up … to try to placate the American people.
The NSA IG (Inspector General) – who was not cleared for this – all of a sudden is told he has to do an investigation on this; something he has no information or knowledge of.
So what they did, is they took a few documents and they downgraded [he classification level of the documents] – just a few – and gave them to them to placate this basic whitewash investigation.
Snowden’s Failure To Understand the Most Important Documents
RUSSELL TICE: Now, if Mr. Snowden were to find the crossover, it would be those documents that were downgraded to the NSA’s IG.
The stuff that I saw looked like a bunch of alphanumeric gobbledygook. Unless you have an analyst to know what to look for – and believe me, I think that what Snowden’s done is great – he’s not an intelligence analyst. So he would see something like that, and he wouldn’t know what he’s looking at.
But that would be “the jewels”. And the key is, you wouldn’t know it’s the jewels unless you were a diamond miner and you knew what to look for. Because otherwise, there’s a big lump of rock and you don’t know there’s a diamond in there.
I worked special programs. And the way I found out is that I was working on a special operation, and I needed information from NSA … from another unit. And when I went to that unit and I said “I need this information”, and I dealt with [satellite spy operations], and I did that in the black world. I was a special operations officer. I would literally go do special missions that were in the black world where I would travel overseas and do spooky stuff.
Did we really need Snowden to have told us that the Internet, federally controlled, does not allow anyone a modicum of privacy and the government after implementing the Patriot Act considers ordinary Americans the enemy?
In “Inconsistencies and Unanswered Questions: The Risks of Trusting the Snowden Story” Kevin Ryan wrote:
Journalist Margie Burns asked some good questions back in June that have not yet been answered. She wondered about the 29-year old Snowden who had been a U.S. Army Special Forces recruit, a covert CIA operative, and an NSA employee in various capacities, all in just a few, short years. Burns asked “How, exactly, did Snowden get his series of NSA jobs? Did he apply through regular channels? Was it through someone he knew? Who recommended him? Who were his references for a string of six-figure, high-level security jobs? Are there any safeguards in place so that red flags go up when a subcontractor jumps from job to job, especially in high-level clearance positions?”
Five months later, journalists Mark Ames and Yasha Levine investigated some of the businesses in which Greenwald’s benefactor Omidyar had invested. They found that the actual practices of those businesses were considerably less humanitarian than the outward appearance of Omidyar’s ventures often portray. The result was that Omidyar took down references to at least one of those businesses from his website.
In December, whistleblower Sibel Edmonds broke the news that Omidyar‘s Paypal Corporation was implicated in the as-yet-unreleased NSA documents from Snowden. Moreover, Edmonds had allegedly been contacted by an NSA official who alleged that “a deal was made in early June, 2013 between the journalists involved in this recent NSA scandal and U.S. government officials, which was then sealed by secrecy and nondisclosure agreements by all parties involved.”
It would appear that Snowden’s whistleblowing has been co-opted by private corporate interests. Are those involved with privatization of the stolen documents also colluding with government agencies to frame and direct national discussions on domestic spying and other serious matters?
The possibilities are endless, it seems. Presenting documents at a measured rate could be a way to acclimate citizens to painful realities without stirring the public into a panic or a unified response that might actually threaten the status quo. And considering that the number of documents has somehow grown from only thousands to nearly two million, it seems possible that those in control could release practically anything, thereby controlling national dialogue on many topics.
Please read the final paragraph above twice and think about the points raised about acclimating citizens and controlling national dialog. Is Snowden as much of a “Pied Piper” as QAnon? How did Snowden describe the nature of the CIA and NSA in this earlier interview with Der Spiegel?
DER SPIEGEL: But those people see you as their biggest enemy today.
Snowden: My personal battle was not to burn down the NSA or the CIA. I even think they actually do have a useful role in society when they limit themselves to the truly important threats that we face and when they use their least intrusive means.
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Snowden: It wasn’t that difficult. Everybody is currently pointing at the Russians.
DER SPIEGEL: Rightfully?
Snowden: I don’t know. They probably did hack the systems of Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Party, but we should have proof of that. In the case of the hacking attack on Sony, the FBI presented evidence that North Korea was behind it. In this case they didn’t, although I am convinced that they do have evidence. The question is why?
DER SPIEGEL: Mike Pompeo, the new head of the CIA, has accused WikiLeaks, whose lawyers helped you, of being a mouthpiece for the Russians. Is that not harmful to your image as well?
Snowden: First, we should be fair about what the accusations are. I don’t believe the U.S. government or anybody in the intelligence community is directly accusing Julian Assange or WikiLeaks of working directly for the Russian government. The allegations I understand are that they were used as a tool basically to wash documents that had been stolen by the Russian government. And, of course, that’s a concern. I don’t see that as directly affecting me because I’m not WikiLeaks and there is no question about the provenance of the documents that I dealt with.
DER SPIEGEL: Currently, there’s another American guy out there who is accused of being too close to Putin.
Snowden: Oh (laughs).
DER SPIEGEL: Your president. Is he your president?
Snowden: The idea that half of American voters thought that Donald Trump was the best among us, is something that I struggle with. And I think we will all be struggling with it for decades to come.
DER SPIEGEL: But isn’t there reason to fear terrorism?
Snowden: Sure there is. Terrorism is a real problem. But when we look at how many lives it has claimed in basically any country that is outside of war zones like Iraq or Afghanistan, it is so much less than, say, car accidents or heart attacks. Even if Sept. 11 were to happen every single year in the U.S., terrorism would be a much lower threat than so many other things.
No, no one is accusing Wikileaks of conspiring with Russia, just Robert Mueller. I really appreciate Snowden calling Julian Assange a liar, for he has consistently denied there was a “state actor.”
“Terrorism is a real problem” Snowden said. Is it credible that Snowden, who presented himself as donating funds to Ron Paul, has never read any alternative news sites? Is it credible that Snowden believes that terrorists and this would include the good “moderate terrorists” in Syria are armed and act on their own initiative, and is ignorant of the role of the governments of America, Israel, and Saudi Arabia in using them to achieve their ends as proxy armies? Does Snowden then think this report, “America Created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS Terror Group” is false? Does that mindset make Snowden a champion for liberty or a tool for more control of the American population? For example, is it credible that this alleged genius supports the narrative of the September 11 attacks World Trade Center attacks? Whom do you trust, the contributors to these very pages or Edward Snowden?
Snowden has promoted the use of the Tor Browser. ZeroHedge posted this article, “Tor Project ‘Almost 100% Funded By The US Government’: FOIA” which noted:
The Tor Project – a private nonprofit known as the “NSA-proof” gateway to the “dark web,” turns out to be almost “100% funded by the US government” according to documents obtained by investigative journalist and author Yasha Levine.
In a recent blog post, Levine details how he was able to obtain roughly 2,500 pages of correspondence via FOIA requests while performing research for a book. The documents include strategy, contract, budgets and status updates between the Tor project and its primary source of funding; a CIA spinoff known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which “oversees America’s foreign broadcasting operations like Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe.”
By following the money, I discovered that Tor was not a grassroots. I was able to show that despite its indie radical cred and claims to help its users protect themselves from government surveillance online, Tor was almost 100% funded by three U.S. National Security agencies: the Navy, the State Department and the BBG. Following the money revealed that Tor was not a grassroots outfit, but a military contractor with its own government contractor number. In other words: it was a privatized extension of the very same government that it claimed to be fighting.
The documents conclusively showed that Tor is not independent at all. The organization did not have free reign to do whatever it wanted, but was kept on a very short leash and bound by contracts with strict contractual obligations. It was also required to file detailed monthly status reports that gave the U.S. government a clear picture of what Tor employees were developing, where they went and who they saw. -Yasha Levine
The FOIA documents also suggest that Tor’s ability to shield users from government spying may be nothing more than hot air. While no evidence of a “backdoor” exists, the documents obtained by Levine reveal that Tor has “no qualms with privately tipping off the federal government to security vulnerabilities before alerting the public, a move that would give the feds an opportunity to exploit the security weakness long before informing Tor users.”
Interestingly, Edward Snowden is a big fan of Tor – even throwing a “cryptoparty” while he was still an NSA contractor where he set up a Tor exit node to show off how cool they are.
In a 2015 interview with The Intercept’s (Wikileaks hating) Micah Lee, Snowden said:
LEE: What do you think about Tor? Do you think that everyone should be familiar with it, or do you think that it’s only a use-it-if-you-need-it thing?
SNOWDEN: I think Tor is the most important privacy-enhancing technology project being used today.
“Tor Browser is a great way to selectively use Tor to look something up and not leave a trace that you did it. It can also help bypass censorship when you’re on a network where certain sites are blocked. If you want to get more involved, you can volunteer to run your own Tor node, as I do, and support the diversity of the Tor network.”
Tor lists on its own website sponsors that include Google, the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, ONR via Naval Research Laboratory (past sponsor) and DARPA.
When Julian Assange was taken from the Ecuadoran embassy, he was carrying a copy of Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State & Vidal on America. As an older article on Vidal in The Guardian noted, “Gore Vidal claims ‘Bush junta’ complicit in 9/11.”
Isn’t it odd by doing what he did with Vidal’s book Assange makes the point the legitimacy of Washington must be challenged, but Snowden never does, other than offering suggestions for tinkering at the margins, perhaps advising we use DuckDuckGo instead of Google to give us the illusion of privacy? Did Snowden, for someone who is in front of a computer screen for most of the day, make public the facts obtained by Whitney Webb in her piece “How the CIA, Mossad and ‘the Epstein Network’ Are Exploiting Mass Shootings to Create an Orwellian Nightmare” posted on Unz.com which goes in depth into the Orwellian hell we are facing, for as Webb concludes:
With companies like Carbyne — with its ties to both the Trump administration and to Israeli intelligence — and the Mossad-linked Gabriel also marketing themselves as “technological” solutions to mass shootings while also doubling as covert tools for mass data collection and extraction, the end result is a massive surveillance system so complete and so dystopian that even George Orwell himself could not have predicted it.
Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, aggressive efforts will likely follow to foist these “solutions” on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent and would-be dissenters in the United States.
There is the concept of willful blindness that I think applies to much of what Snowden has done, if not something altogether more nefarious—distorations, misrepresenations, and outright lies, in addition to hubris. What is the point I’m making? Perhaps Snowden is only a Soros and Hillary Clinton supporting liberal—but then why would he have done what he did? His character is of any government employee of the “surface state” who swallows false narratives whole.
I only wish the reader fairly and intelligently consider the questions I have raised. For I am encouraging you to think very carefully before you trust the statements, purpose, motives, and truthfulness of the secular saint, Edward Snowden.
Yvonne Lorenzo makes her home in New England in a house full to bursting with books, including works on classical Greece. Her interests include gardening, mythology, ancient history, The Electric Universe, and classical music, especially the compositions of Handel, Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and the Bel Canto repertoire. She is the author of the novels the Son of Thunder and The Cloak of Freya and has contributed to LewRockwell.com and TheSaker.IS.
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Edward Snowden is a typical American fachidiot who, despite their protestations is a striver and bootlick for the Empire. I genuinely believe that he is puzzled as to why it has turned against him. He deserves his destiny of forever languishing in political purgatory.
Several years later, practically nobody remembers him here in the US, and possible elsewhere (save for when it is convenient for the media). Julian Assange was a far more daring, more insightful figure.
(As an aside, I am curious about the author’s liking of bel canto. Lot of birdbrain music to my ears; I prefer Wagner, Strauss, Schreker, and Berg. Also, the older I get, the more I realize that Schoenberg was by far the greater genius than Mahler.)
The logging of user and information accessed is sure added to the file. But real time supervision? No. A eye of sauron? Please. The system isnt there to prevent crime, its to track down the criminal and deeds later. And yes everything takes a very long time on the public side.
You know, 16:00 hours the mouse just drops dead from the hand. Public servants dont give a damn if a job is made fast or efficient, only that procedure if followed and that it is eventually done. Unless priorities are reassigned, stuff left halfway undone in disarray is no problem when reassigned.
Just as keeping secret private archives of more or less job related data is all standard procedure. That is keep a load of data n your personal folders and move those into whatever form desired. Security is not very tight. Only in the sense that eventually every person with hours and access point etc data can be recovered if so ordered to.
So stealing data out of that system shouldn’t be terribly hard. Just email it to a private email. Or store on something else and transport out. For one Hillary was doing the same thing for ages. In that case tho “what difference does it make”
Why does the author distrust the Snowden story while taking the Assange saga at face value?
Unintended perhaps, but still…
Quantum bits, or qubits, which are often atoms, electrons or photons, can exist as zeros and ones at the same time, or in any position between, a flexibility that allows them to process information in new ways. Some physicists compare them to a spinning coin that is simultaneously in a heads and tails state.
In his talk, Pan detailed how China is harnessing qubits to safeguard its communications from hacking — one of the fields in which China appears to have a lead over the West.
Pan and his team are aiming to launch a constellation of satellites and a nationwide fiber-optic network that use qubits to securely transmit information. An almost 1,300-mile fiber link connecting Beijing, Shanghai and other cities is already up and running. So is a satellite China launched in 2016, which has conducted several prominent experiments, including facilitating a hacking-resistant video conference between Beijing and Vienna.
When the network is complete, it could complicate U.S. efforts to eavesdrop on China’s government or military communications, some Western scientists say.
“I predict China will go black in two to three years — we won’t be able to read anything,” said Jonathan Dowling, a physics professor at Louisiana State University who spends part of the year as a visiting faculty member at USTC in Shanghai.
Others argue that even if China’s network equipment is more secure, it could still be hacked by manipulating the humans running the system.
If the technology gains traction globally, China could be in a strong position to sell it, given the large number of patents its universities and companies have registered for devices and technology relating to quantum communication and encryption, according to Patinformatics.
Pan has credited Edward Snowden for motivating China’s quantum research. The former National Security Agency contractor’s revelations about NSA eavesdropping led China to pour money into developing more secure communications, Pan has said in published interviews.
https://www.checkpointasia.net/the-quantum-revolution-is-coming-and-chinese-scientists-are-at-the-forefront/
I am waiting to see what Brabantian says …
There was an interview with Edward in the German magazine Der Spiegel this month, Nr. 18. In it, we get the tale, he copied material on SD cards, and smugeled them in his mouth, or inside a “magic cube” out of the base on Hawaii, passsing “guards”. A cube, the occult symbol, how blatant, just mocking the profane. On the technical side, I got a story from a German BMW factory. A bunch of guys on nightshift plugged a USB Harddisk into a PC to watch a movie. Minutes later they received a call from the IT, it had been recognized remotely. What a charade. It has the taste of Jewish tales, smuggling stuff, tricking guards of an evil system.
Great article, thanks Ron for publishing.
I recommend these articles from Jon Rappaport, unfortunately, wordpress deleted his blog.
Matrix: Who is Edward Snowden?
https://www.radios.cz/en/articles/matrix-who-is-edward-snowden/
Snowden and the final purpose of the Surveillance State
https://www.radios.cz/en/articles/snowden-and-the-final-purpose-of-the-surveillance-state/
Operation Snowjob
https://www.radios.cz/en/articles/operation-snowjob/
and this
Russia gov report Snowden Greenwald are CIA frauds
https://www.radios.cz/en/articles/russia-gov-report-snowden-greenwald-are-cia-frauds/
Nice to have a piece helping point to the truth, that Glenn Greenwald & Edward Snowden are CIA frauds, as every major government knows
‘Edward Snowden’ who first ‘leaked’ to the CIA’s Washington Post, in fact to Bush VP Dick Cheney’s biographer Bart Gellman … then the Deep State realised that was too stupid, so they switched to Rothschild employee & ex-gay-pornography-seller Glenn Greenwald, former proprietor of ‘hairystuds’, at the Guardian, an intel-agency rag which lies about nearly everything
Vladmir Putin himself hinting out loud he knows Snowden is fake, and ‘Snowden asylum’ is a game of back-door favours between Russia & the USA, few in the West pick up on it
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/09/21/russia-govt-report-snowden-greenwald-are-cia-frauds/
Despite the Snowden-Assange mutual sniping in their media-star rivalry, Julian Assange is also a CIA-Mossad asset, as Bibi Netanyahu himself has boasted to Israeli media, regarding aggressively pro-Zionist, anti-Palestinian Julian, equally anti-9-11-truth along with Eddie Snowden
As loyal CIA assets, neither Assange and Snowden dare to mention USA Virginia fed judge bribery files that have blocked other extraditions, tho these files would make their own extraditions impossible, if these CIA fakers really cared about their own ‘defence’
Zbigniew Brzezinski on 29 Nov 2010, on the US public television PBS News Hour, also admitted Assange was intel, his Wikileaks ‘selected’
People trusting Assange are dead, Peter W Smith, Seth Rich; others jailed
Very darkly, it is unknown how many dissidents Snowden and also Julian Assange helped silence or even kill, both of them a ‘rat trap’ for trusting whistle-blowers
https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/11/assange-snowden-rat-traps.html
You will notice that Assange & Snowden both got famous via CIA – MI6 media, NY Times, UK Guardian, who are never interested in real dissidents
Assange shared lawyer with Rothschilds, Rothschild sister-in-law posted Assange bail, Assange has ties to George Soros too
Early on, Assange helped Rothschilds destroy rival bank Julius Baer … that is ‘progressive Wiki-leaking’ for you
Assange had a weird childhood with Aussie mind-control cult ‘the Family’
Things like ‘Assange living at Ecuador Embassy’ – ‘now in Belmarsh prison’ – easily faked, Assange moved in & out for photos by MI5 MI6, police under national security orders … ‘Snowden’ is not necessarily in Russia either
Assange & Snowden de-legitimise real dissidents, because people say, ‘Wikileaks – NY Times – UK Guardian would cover it if it was true’
NeonRevolt once floated the theory that Snowden was an FBI or CIA plant who whistleblew solely because he had the mission to undermine NSA operations by exposing their equipment/techniques and turning public opinion against them.
I completely understand if people are leery of the theorycrafting of a Q tracker, but I do believe that this suggestion is plausible. Setting aside attempts at placing it in context of a Deep State war, inter-service rivalry and sabotage between spy agencies is absolutely a thing, and reviewing the inconsistencies of Snowden’s stunt, its aftermath, and his personal views with that potential background in mind suddenly makes things make much more sense, in my mind at least.
Interesting, thought-provoking article.
It asks us to balance up competing interests & advantages.
On the one hand we can assume Snowden is “real” or not. That is, he’s a genuine whistle blower, or he’s a government psy-op’s plant.
If we accept the later, that he’s a plant, then it raises a further question: was the short term loss, associated with his revelations, ie highlighting the utterly disturbing degree of Gov surveillance over US citizens (etc) worth the long term profit of having an established, authoritive psy-op’s agent able to influence/distort etc any debate or narrative concerning the US State /elites. On this side the author notes Snowmen’s views on Tor, 9/11, Russia etc which clearly advantage the US State’s own views on these subjects.
I don’t know the answer — except that this article raises serious questions, suspicions , about
Snowden’s authenticity.
Never for a moment considered Snowden any sort of secular saint.
Snowden for the most part only confirmed the downward trajectory of the formerly at least interesting filmmaker, Oliver Stone. If JFK was worth a laugh (and evidently did get a few people thinking about the phoniness of Dallas ’63 for the first time), Snowden was total chloroform on screen. Sad to see Ollie hit such lows.
This bit is interesting:
As batty as Vidal may have been, it is a fact he was the first American with any sort of national recognition to speak out against the National Security State, starting in the Eisenhower years. His fury was partly stoked by their meddling in Central America, but he stayed at it. Even gave it a mention in a movie he had a gag role in, Bob Roberts, 1992.
His favorite line (variously rendered) was “Harry Truman signed the United States of America into oblivion in February, 1949” which was when the NSA papers were drawn up, giving us the security state, the CIA and the whole shebang. Anytime before, any US citizen could demand accounting of any government project, no matter what. Afterward, the rule by secrecy applied.
Vidal had been a WWII veteran and deplored all that came about after. Credit is due for that.
Both Assuange and Snowden are agent patsys
Who is this dizzy chick?
Snowden, exiled and isolated in Russia, is some sort of USG crypto-agent…or something?
I suppose that if you’re going to look for outside-the-box commentary and analysis, you’re going to get some of this sort of nonsense. I guess you can’t expect to hit a home run every time.
And yet this “striver and bootlick for the Empire” is exiled in Russia. So some guy sacrifices an enjoyable and secure life to go live in Russia and all you can say is that “he deserves his destiny?”
And this is a reflection on him or on the rest of us?
She starts off with a falsehood:
> Edward Snowden would have us believe that the Eye of Sauron didn’t notice
He states exactly the opposite. I quit reading her garbage after that.
Comfortable living in Moscow, vs. Belmarsh, makes all the difference in the world.
You might be right about Snowden, you might not be, but were Assange living in a Russian city, far out of reach of NeoconiaDC, Bill Blaney would show him greater respect…believe me.
Boy howdy, a Rubik’s Cube is now magical, profane, occult, and eerily symbolic, because it’s cubical! And geometry class is a satanic false flag op of oppressive propaganda taught by crypto-Jews! Who else could be interested in IRRATIONAL numbers like π? PYTHAGORAS WAS A MOSSAD AGENT!
His “sacrifice” was inadvertent and involuntary. The fact that he seems not to appreciate the sanctuary offered to him by Russia—has he not repeatedly expressed the desire to go elsewhere?—says a lot. From everything I have read about him, it would appear that he regards his exile not as something to be borne with dignity, but as something to pout over as does a child who unexpectedly did not get his way.
Julian Assange, on the other hand, sacrificed much more and did so willingly and courageously. He had no illusions about the consequences that he would face for his beliefs and actions.
Both. Nobody remembers anything here in the US anyway, least of all people and events which do not flatter the national mythos. In the case of this would-be patriot—the scion of a family that grew fat at the government teat, and who himself has made a tidy profit from his exile—his unofficial damnatio memoriæ is deserved.
> …veteran…Credit is due for that.
Maybe you ought to give Snowden some credit for his military service too. Fair is fair.
Is Seth Rich dead ? OpDeepState.com : “The ‘murder’ of Seth Rich – Everything we thought we knew is wrong !” by Lisa Phillips . “The MOSSAD infiltrated Clinton’s campaign with a Sayanim contractor – Seth Rich – … this OP took Hillary right out of the race .”
Tor is a great tool, if you know how to use it correctly. The US gov’t know people don’t know how to use it correctly, and sets up exit nodes to spy on idiots, like this:
So just assume the US gov’t is your exit node, thank them silently for paying for you to use it free, and keep your info encrypted.
Both him and Assange are spooks
Well, this is refreshing. I agree wholeheartedly about Snowden and have the same reservations. My feelings about Assange, however, aren’t much different. Julian has not challenged the 9/11 narrative either to be fair. I am inclined to see them both as limited hangouts. Snowden’s ‘revelations’ were all old news to anyone who’d been paying attention for 10 years before his appearance. Even other whistleblowers, none of whom got any media coverage, had spoken of much of it previously. I see them both as pied pipers and nothing more. I think Russian intelligence services are perfectly well aware of what Snowden is and have kept him at arms length themselves. Not much they could do but play along but nothing suggests they ever saw him as any sort of ‘coup’
Anyone who still plays along with the 9/11 bullshit narrative isn’t worth a damn anyway.
Consider that nothing Snowden revealed was news. It was all old hat for anyone who’d been paying attention, and for up to ten years. Sure Snowden made it mainstream…for what good it did…but nothing he said was a secret anymore. In fact, I thought even at the time his actions were nothing less than a ‘threat and warning’ from the intel services that they had this much on everyone. Just imagine all those national leaders, politicians from all states being pout on notice. All your secrets are ours! What a powerful global message to deliver and in such a loud and clear fashion.
The lack of deviation from official bullshit on 9/11 is on its own however reason enough to toss this guy out. Snowden NEVER impressed me for a moment and honestly, nor has Assange. I believe they’re both working for the other side still. By the way, Julian Assange has actually denigrated 9/11 truthers a number of times.
It’s in the magazine, page 82, quote “Zauberwürfel”. Presented by me, for you to get the picture. Maybe you haven’t seen enough cubes around, to get that humor. In real life, copying material on devices will be followed by arrest, no interview, no journey to some exile. This whole tale is not funny, it’s evil on many levels. Your sarcasm is disturbing.
I disagree, there are plenty of people who remember him. The problem is they don’t care, most Americans would rather watch America’s Got Talent or Dancing With The Stars than do something about our corrupt political system.
Assange and Snowden are both shill’s..
https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/search?q=assange
And…
2013 Edward Snowden ‘leaked stolen documents’ … (1) ‘Leaked’ to Dick Cheney friend at CIA WashPost, Rothschild employee Greenwald (2) Anti-9-11-truth (3) Nothing really new beyond more than 5+ previous NSA whistleblowers (4) Has CIA lawyers, worked with Brzezinski son, promoted by Brzezinski daughter, fake CV history (5) Known as fake to all major gov intel agencies
https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/search?q=snowden
This is absolutely dynamite material, it blows to smithereens any notion that Edward Snowden is anything other than a fraud, a CIA disinfo op.
So now we can place him alongside Julian Assange and Wikileaks in the rogue’s gallery of professional liars. This report also exposes several other media outlets as being under CIA control, something we have known for some time…
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/09/21/russia-govt-report-snowden-greenwald-are-cia-frauds/
Snowden, unlike Assange, largely suffered from pussy deprivation and like those who suffer from sleep deprivation, is liable to do anything. But just as one, after catching up with some good sleep on vacation, is ready for the high wire act, Snowden, after plentiful supply of easily available Russian pussies, must be ready to jump through the hoops for a return ticket to America!
To my mind “9/11, attitude to”, is a sort of touch-stone for telling genuine dissidents from fake and both Snowden and Assange fail on that test. I don’t have a reference for it, but I saw it in correspondence on this site. There was a video of a lecture given by Assange, where someone asked him about 9/11. He looked extremely embarrassed and then replied that he thought that it was “not very important” (Sic!) and changed the subject.
I am less sure of this but I think I saw something similar in an interview with Snowden. Perhaps someone else can remind me of exact references?
This is the same government whose leaders secure their laptops with the secret code “pas\$word” and require the producers of computers to give them full access via day one exploits along with tailor fitted programs that are easier to hack.
That Snowden got away with what he did is not that shocking.
These days Snowden has become a generic term for whistleblowing on the Deep State tech spying, like xerox for copying.
I suppose someone here wants to remind us that this was _really_ the first copier, patented in 1879:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestetner
The truth or falsity of the original “myth” becames moot at some point.
The Deep State is spying. They do have hardware and software and monkey in the middle hacks. They do trade intelligence with other spy agencies, domestic and foreign. They lie about it through the Mockingbird media.
_That_ is what is important.
Snowden’s bona fides are “inside baseball”, and minor league baseball at that.
.gov IT security is a joke–millions of pages of regulations, proclamations, millions of hours of management meetings, goals, powerpoint slides–ultimately easily outmatched by any determined hackers (whether in mom’s basement or an intelligence agency’s basement).
CIA Edward Snowden? Most Americans prefer to have their computers wide open where Government agents can play with FBI approved pornography.
The NSA listens to all of your phone calls and collects all your emails and watches you on social media. The smarter zombies might ask how could a low level employee like Snowden first steal tons of super sensitive and politically charged data and then do a “daring” escape through Hong Kong to Russia? The answer is ratings. It makes a great movie. You have to believe it just enough to debate it.
Now Pamela Anderson likes the lanky nerd Assange and that’s provocative too. Great theater. Clearly the Government prefers to hide everything in plain sight.
If he was a sys admin, that probably meant he had the rights to install, remove, enable, and disable the various safety guards and security checks discussed in this article.
Yvonne Lorenzo paper suggest suspect issues exist to support Snowden’s story but finds Assange’s saga to be
based in epic, consistent, continued resistance to the organized forces at work in governments and high profile international corporations and agencies to keep secret things which expose officials as criminals.
<=the difference is consistency, scope and finger points. Assange has been consistent.. always seeking to make available as much as he could, always with as much clarity as possible; making the point where he could, that much of what he exposed seems to be in the domain of organized crime. Assange often exposes high profile persons and tags them with evidence to connect them to prior and current organized crime or obviously corrupt activities. Assange shows these persons or governments or agencies are involved in secret diplomatic activities, the secrecy of which seem always to be protected by judicial and legal processes
The Assange story paints a picture that suggest globally organized crime has come into possession and now manages and controls many well armed domestic governments and that selected agencies of government have been enabling selected private enterprises. Assange exposes intelligence services of many different nations to be a bank, corporation, and agency inter connects that coordinate infrastructure destruction, invasion, regime change, and war, and that these events are often followed by opportunistic privatization.
Snowden merely says a few things are wrong and should be corrected. in time the government will fix its own mistakes. I do not know if Snowden is a Trojan, but nothing Assange has done suggest he is and governments have treated Assange as anything but one of them. My opinion.
I think you meant that
I agree that Assange has suffered much more than Snowden, but why hold that against the latter?
Snowden took a risk to publicize what he thought was important information indicating a dangerous trend in US policy. He wasn’t willing to offer himself up as a lamb to the slaughter, so it’s true that his sacrifice is not perhaps the ultimate one. He seems to have thought he could remain in Hong Kong but didn’t realize that China was never going to compromise relations with the US to protect him. Putin wouldn’t have either except that the US was so imperious in demanding his return that Putin really couldn’t save face and give him up, and no doubt he was rankled by US hypocrisy, knowing that had Snowden been a Russian, the US would never have considered sending him back.
But Snowden DID take action which is more than most of us do. I find your complete lack of empathy kind of weird, to be honest. Even if Assange is the more virtuous or if one disagrees with Snowden’s actions, he has paid a price for principle.
What does his family background have to do with anything?
I’m not inclined to sneer at him, and I don’t see how you get to “he deserves what he gets.”
Brabantian,
So Pamela Anderson lied about visiting Assange in the embassy? If they’re faking it, wherever he is he isn’t in the public eye walking down the street or sitting in a Starbucks, so he’s leading a prison life anyway behind closed doors somewhere. I suppose a dedicated agent would do something like that for Queen and country or whatever, but I doubt he’s the type. I gather veterans today are trying to cast Assange as a Mossad agent but then they’re the Journal of the Clandestine Community, whatever that is.
Snowden is not a classic defector so it makes sense for him to keep his distance from Russian society so as not to be inadvertently compromised or used by their intelligence services. He’s obviously under surveillance there, I know we all are but he’s much more aware of it, so that doesn’t make it easy for him but he’s definitely safer there than he’d be in France or Germany. I just don’t think he planned well ahead when he became a whistle-blower or was clear about what he was trying to achieve. He’s not the top level type of spy we’re accustomed to reading about who betray their country for money or to serve another they believe in more than their own. If he has been on active duty as a CIA asset all along I can’t see that he has achieved much of use to them other than in some inter-agency rivalry game. But it’s natural for Russians to be suspicious of him – they’re suspicious by nature – and rightly so, but it doesn’t make his life easy there.
Thanks for posting–Assange looked dazed and confused by the question itself.
It could be “rogue agents”.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. 🙁
> Snowden, unlike Assange, largely suffered from pussy deprivation
You’re projecting your own lack of success with females. Meanwhile, Snowden’s squeeze Lindsay Mills lives with him in Moscow.
There’s no way an envious gamma like you could tap this:
Good stuff. Snowden was outed by Gordon Duff years ago. Altho I’ll have to come back to finish this article, it generally appears to agree with Duff’s analysis that none of it adds up.
If I may paraphrase Edward Bernays,
To read the Washington Post and Guardian or watch TV news is to see America and Western Civilization through the eyes of its enemy.
The owners of the media own the public forum in America and through it the formation of men’s attitudes and the outcome of elections. The left vs right, CNN vs Fox News, MAGA vs socialism and other contrived theater serves the interests of the media owners and no other.
Try this:
Assange tried to destroy the “system”, which would have furthered the conditions for completing the ongoing, global Cultural Marxist Revolution … Mao Zedong on steroids.
Snowden, on the other hand, wanted something much less extreme. He wanted to fix and save the “system” by exposing its excesses in order to bring it back within a quasi-legal, democratic framework.
In response, the “system” was satisfied to teach Snowden a lesson. They were willing to slap Snowden’s hand by exiling him to Western Russia, which is better than rotting in a Siberian labor camp or “max” prison in the United States.
Assange, on the other hand, is a reincarnated, digital version of Che Guevara. They want his scalp, recognizing that Assange (like Che Guevara) will brook no compromise in his revolutionary agitation.
Thank you for the update… I remain celibate out of consideration for those who are truly hard up.
Good article. Snowden and Assange are agents of disinformation
http://911blogger.com/news/2010-07-22/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-annoyed-911-truth
Assange’s damming statement about 9/11 at the Belfast Telegraph is now behind a sign-up gatepost, which was not there in the fairly recent past.
9/11 is the “litmus test” and it appears that both Assange and Snowden have failed it.
Who is this idiot?
Well, the Real Litmus Test™ is eternal security vs. conditional salvation. Don’t fail, or everything else you’ve ever said must be summarily dismissed. Answer well, friendo.
Also very true.
It appears the author of this piece has not read Snowden’s book, Permanent Record. If she had, she would not have asked questions which are answered, in detail, in Snowden’s book. Here are some of the most obvious points.
1. “Why does Snowden never discuss dealing with such encryption: how would it be possible?”
Answer: In his book, Snowden describes the layers of encryption that he used when copying the files from NSA. He also describes the extraordinary level of access he had as a systems engineer. Further, he mentions his surprise at finding that the NSA did not practice widespread encryption, in contrast to his experience at CIA, where the hard drives were not only encrypted, but removed from the computers and placed in a safe each night.
2. “In the Oliver Stone movie Snowden, as well as in any of Snowden’s descriptions of how he accessed the NSA computers, did you note either the depiction or reference to this universal Smart ID? How could Snowden be exempt from its requirement?”
Answer: Movies omit details. In his book, Snowden describes working in the one-person Information Sharing department. As part of that work, he brought an older, “obsolete” system to his office under the cover story of “compatibility testing” and used this older system to copy the data.
3. “Did Edward Snowden, who has publicly criticized Google, mention Google is deployed as a search engine throughout the federal “intranet”?”
Answer: Yes, as a matter of fact, in his book, Snowden does mention that Google provides a custom internal version of their search engine to the intelligence community.
4. “Edward Snowden would have us believe that the Eye of Sauron didn’t notice he was looking at gigabytes of data unrelated to his job function and using his computer to copy the data to external devices over a lengthy period of time.”
Answer: In his book, Snowden describes how he created a “readboard” that collected the documents as part of his work in the Information Sharing department. He also describes how another systems administrator did notice, and how he addressed this attention by providing access to his “readboard” to the other administrator, and explained its purpose and value to users. In other words, the “gigabytes of data” he was looking at were directly related to his job function.
5. “On another issue, why did Snowden provide his files to known house organs of Intelligence Agencies, specifically the Washington Post and The Guardian, and not give them to Wikileaks to allow a publicly available searchable database?”
Answer: Snowden also discusses this topic in his book. According to Snowden, he did not want to simply release the information, he wanted the media to remove anything that might cause harm.
6. “And what about Snowden himself, the pontificator, the man who can speak on television or to the media with evidence of training? Practice yourself—see how well you can answer questions and speak publicly to a TV camera. How did he get his training? Who trained him? Why?”
Answer: After 6 years of media attention, it seems reasonable he would gain some expertise in dealing with the media.
My purpose in providing the answers above is not to defend or attack Snowden. Rather, these examples just show that the author of this piece is a sloppy amateur who did not do her homework. I suspect the author is also woefully ignorant of computer technology. Anyone curious about these topics should read Permanent Record and decide for themselves.
Your opinion stands. Snowden has de facto been compromised. Being in Russia, and not in control of his environment. Whether he was from the start, could be. The Tor browser bull-***t speaks against him all the way. His conventional career start, and youth also. He is more Macron then a Galloway.
Assange was in for the long term, had thorough knowledge of affairs digital, his youth, his physical courage(there must be a point where selling out was a possibility) were exemplary all along the (long) and still ongoing slug.
Even his ego, fronting Wikileaks seems to be proportionate as compared to the conventional Jerks &, as Pompeo, Hillary, Trump, Obama. If one sees how many personnel is dedicated to steer elections and governance public opinion, he certainly looks like a lonely giant on the civil disobedience, organizational, knowledgeable, energy spent and resilience side. A true example of what White, and Western European descend stands for. Enlightenment, in system, style, and function. Relevancy, long term goals, dare, does not come better then that.
Very to the point. True over the whole stretch digital communication is in existence.
I don’t have “Agree/Disagree/Etc” privileges so I say here that I agree with you.
Some of the pompous ingrates trashing Snowden for the flimsiest of reasons still seem to have a high opinion of Thomas Drake, William Binney, or Kirk Wiebe. They might read this:
Three NSA Veterans Speak Out on Whistleblower
Pretty much.
The author, interestingly enough, isn’t I.T. professional, but, has very definite opinions about IT security. Dumb.
Well, firewall logs could reveal your connection to some email server outside…..
Yep. Hehe…the girl doesn’t actually get how that “encryption” thing works. OSI layers etc.
And, what people really don’t get: all security is as good as an average person using it.
As…hehe…you pointed out:
Insider doesn’t need to tackle technology. All he/she needs is to tackle is a dumb employee.
Anyway….
I could make my home systems quite secure, even against Five Eyes. That would create another set of even worse problems, but let’s leave it out for now.
The problem is my wife and her browsing/computer use habits. Hehe…makes sense?
A very good comment.
Especially
Snowden did “do something about our corrupt political system,” not that anybody here cares.
And God Bless America.
Snowden keeping “distance” to Russia, and not openly defending them seems reasonable to me. You can imagine the smear campaign back home if he would side with Russia against the U.S. on almost anything. “The Russians got to him” or “He was always their man”.
He is trying to keep his neutrality and credibility and his target audience isn’t the average Unz reader, but rather some mainstream educated middle/upper class blokes. Easily scared away from his views if they become too controversial and too far from the established narrative.
Last but not least, he is playing very dangerous game, probably without much security from his host country. This probably imits what he can do, TPTB could probably get to him if they wanted it badly enough.
Everybody with the slight familiarity about the story knows of Snowden’s use of the Ernő Rubik’s Cube to hide the SD card.
> In real life, copying material on devices will be followed by arrest, no interview, no journey to some exile.
Snowden proved you wrong, by the skin of his teeth.
> Your sarcasm is disturbing.
Yeah? How do you think folks feel about your black cape and a fiberglass helmet?
Wasn’t Ross William Ulbricht compromised by using Tor ?
Snowden’s wife is a member of a certain ethnic group. Same as with Alex Jones, both are limited hangouts
> The Tor browser bull-***t speaks against him all the way
No, your stupid bull-***t lack of understanding about Tor speaks against you all the way. It’s not encryption, like you probably think it is. It’s simply a way to use another IP address without having to drive to the nearest Starbucks to use their wifi. You treat Tor just like any “free” wifi, assuming that your data is being sniffed and collected. If you’re going to message, use Signal (or Telegram.) Always force HTTPS. Use encryption. All Tor does is obfuscate your IP location, which is exactly what Snowden states, “All Tor does is obfuscate your IP location.
And now Brave Browser has it built in! So easy. Try it. Just don’t do anything on Tor that you wouldn’t do with a Starbuck’s free wifi in Foggy Bottom.
How he got taken down is here, and it started with the name-fag using his Real Name while e-begging for help to run illegal websites, and ended up with a half-dozen FBI agents tailing him at his arrest. Even then, Tor made it harder for the FBI to track him, just not impossible.
Tor only does one thing, obfuscate your physical location. That’s it. It’s not magic. It’s a virtual way to sit at the Starbucks cafe and use their free wifi. Just assume the exit node is owned by the Feds, looking for criminal morons who don’t understand it and think it’s “secure” or “encrypted.” It’s not. Use encryption too.
And you’re a flaming faggot.
Snowden’s wife is Lindsay Mills, daughter of Jonathan Lynn Mills and Marta H. Mills Williams. None jewish.
Alex Jones married two Jewish women, no dispute there.
Stuff like this just confirms Qanon. He said years ago Snowden was a CIA plant in the NSA to reveal this information about their mass surveillance on purpose. Why ? Maybe it relates to what Michael Hoffman describes as revelation of the method – a process of revealing the crimes being committed against us by “they” so it breeds apathy and despair in the population when nothing comes from
The revelation of the crimes
see this list of Jewish names, Mills is listed
http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-result.html?page=next
AVOTAYNU: Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
probably Sephardic
So you think you can (1) smear Snowden’s wife with your preposterous lie, (2) not apologize when you’re proven wrong, then (3) absolve yourself of lying with a smokescreen of off-topic banality about Alex Jones? Thanks for letting us know your character is lower than whale shit in the Mariana Trench. I’ll be watching you, faggot.
The Russian authorities are capable of asking the same perceptive questions – – and yet they continue to be gracious hosts.
An allegedly very high iq high school from a family with drop out Snowden’s tried to join special forces and failed jump school, he failed a polygraph, got accepted to the CIA though not as a field agent despite his lack of a degree, and was bounced from the CIA and then got a job with Dell as an outside contractor on the basis of his still intact security clearance, the contractors were not compartmentalised in the way government employees were. Then he went to work for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, at an NSA facility in Hawaii. In subsequent interview with journalists, Snowden lied about his doing undercover work for the CIA, salary and seniority at Booz Allen,being able to spy on the the emails and phone calls of President Obama. Oh, abd suffering broken bones in special forces jump school, he just had shin splints It is very clear how he got access, and why most of the people who gave him it did not own up.
It’s only difficult to believe if you think NASA (like the CIA and FBI once were) are only guarded in relation to external rather than internal security breaches
Why would they bother? Those dissenters cannot change anything, while they are whiling away their free time on the internet. Such activity cannot change anything at all, and so it is to be encouraged from the point of view of any establishment as open dissent on the net wards off the allegation of totalitarian state. Talk is cheap.
very funny, you have a real talent for insults
Snowden is an obvious op as is Asange. Call it 3rd tier op if you like (pretends to be hostile) there for the purpose of herding real dissent into unproblematic areas
Learn to recognize government dis-info.
http://mileswmathis.com/glenn.pdf
I’m not going to comment on the person or their agenda, rather the process-broadly.
Can you copy encrypted files without knowledge and smuggle them out?
Short answer:
Yes, with a second device and some standard hardware stuff.
They can see the second device if it is plugged in, but they have to look for it.
There is no need to try and copy from the source, copy the output to a second machine that can interpret.
Mills is a very common English name as well as Jewish. Variations of Mills and Miller are among the most common European names in all European languages.
Alex Jones—I forgot about that nerd. But is he not with Lee Ann McAdoo? Or is she Jewish, too? Knew about the first wife, but was not aware that he had remarried.
I’m conflicted about this 9/11 stuff. The “controlled demolition” theories are obvious BS. It’s a distraction from the most likely culprit, the Mossad. If Griffin said that he’d be deplatformed as an anti-semite and a white supremacist. Perhaps they’d plant child porn on his computer for good measure.
Hell, I’d give the guy credit for his quick sprinting at the NSA. But we haven’t established if he was a wiz kid or a plant.
Vidal went into the US Army after Pearl Harbor, at age 17. Even though he’d been his high school representative for the America First Committee, trying to keep the US out of the war. Due to hypothermia working on army transport ships in the Aleutians, he was initially misdiagnosed as arthritic and, not being caught in time, ended up first with a titanium leg replacement years later, then in a wheelchair.
I remain sort of impressed when a young man opposes a fight, then for patriotic reasons, serves anyway (and pays a steep price).
I’m sure we’ll get the full story on Snowden sooner or later.
Agree.
A stupid girl who is completely unfamiliar with the Snowden history. For example, she asks this, “why did Snowden provide his files to…The Guardian?”
Because he needed immediate press coverage. He didn’t have weeks or even days, he had at most a few hours. His story had to be in the press the next morning. Both Greenwald and the Guardian reporter were with him at the hotel, worried that Snowden might even be assassinated if caught by US forces, and worked to get immediate press coverage of his plight to save his life. Plus, he was in constant contact with Wikileaks’Julian Assange, which she conveniently ignores to promote her lie-based conspiritard theory.
Without his story getting into the press within a few hours, and without Wikileaks’ Julian Assange helping Snowden, he’d be in prison now, at best, possibly dead.
I say, give the guy a fair trial. He has asked for a fair trial. But the US Gov’t has refused to allow his motive to be considered in the trial. Amazing, isn’t it? Since when is motive to not be considered in a criminal trial?
Thanks for the share wayfarer!
Yes his first Jewish wife divorced him, there was a big court case, much interesting information came out in that case, such as his income, and he admitted to be a performance artist, he married a second Jewish woman who was a former massage therapist
Tor may still be a good tool, it certainly was, I had great fun using it to troll and set off edit wars on English Wikipedia for a year or two mid-last decade. One of those edit wars lasted for about three days. I just watched after starting it (but I meant what I said in the comment that set it off, but not always in the trolling(^-^)v).
In any case, the English-language WP has been madly tracking Tor exit nodes and banning them since about early ’07.
Fun while it lasted.
As for the wrong way to use it, that basically means making a connection to any other site, without Tor, while using Tor. I slipped up on that once or twice when slightly drunk.
I don’t even know if using Tor is even legal in Japan now. I do love, however, how Wikipedia is aggressively supressing it.
Some politicians in ruling party were moving to make it illegal a couple of years ago, our polity is so nonsensical that I have to checck Japanese wiki to see the result.
Any fule knows that Tor original is a U.S.N. programme,
Thank you as well Agent76, for helping fight the good fight!
Rappaport started my thinking and I bookmarked his pages long ago and to my horror found the site was taken down. I wonder why? Glad for this archive. Thank you.
No, I haven’t read the book–yet.
As part of a forensic analysis, which none of you were observant enough to understand, the subject is interviewed without knowledge of the questions in advance. His answers would be evaluated based on facts, for which a forensic IT team with no connections to government contractors would be part of and gain access to NSA systems. Thus, testimony is considered but it must be verified. Rand Paul might be one to open an investigation into the inadequacy of NSA security but government investigating itself is suspect. No such investigation will ever take place.
Note there has been no calls, that I am aware of, for any GAO study of NSA vulnerabilities.
Second, the critics miss the point: providing files to CIA-Five Eye fronts like Guardian and CIA Washington Post is suspect. As per what I wrote, no one now has access to this data.
I suspect Snowden leaked legitimate information to con the Russians to be on their soil and conduct malfeasance. Prior to Putin providing S-300s to Syria, Israel had better relations with Russia. I suspect Q is also coordinated by Intel agency friendly to Likud. Note his mention of John Perry Barlow before his death. He warned of Snowden being sent deliberately to Russia and hence my concern for CIA doing something stupid.
As to his comments on not supporting Russia, no support is necessary. If he were a decent human being he could simply have stated, “Election interference notwithstanding the U.S. should pursue non-aggressive posture against Russia. There was no ‘Second Pearl Harbor.’ The risk of nuclear war is great and I agree with President Trump to reduce tensions, although I disagree with his politics.”
Instead, see his Tweets supporting the Pussy Hats and “We came, we saw, he died” Hillary Clinton.
In the event, Snowden is irrelevant. The end of Empire is imminent.
Read Martyanov’s post on the recent threats America made to Russia here.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2019/09/why-would-you-ask.html
I have compassion for Snowden. His end will likely be as Skripals was: disappearance by Western IC which he supports and blame placed on Russia.
We are free to disagree with one another. I trust nothing a supporter of Empire says.
As to September 11 I wasn’t aware of Assange’s remarks. This is the touchstone as others have said. Snowden enlisted because of September 11 false flag. Yeah, right, he is an idiot savant.
Even Ed Asner who no longer wins Emmy awards and is blackballed had the courage to do this video. Trust Snowden? I think not.
Y. Lorenzo (this site will not allow me to post under my name)
p.s. Ron uses Gmail. The nearest military base is a long, long way from my location. A helicopter outfitted with surveillance bubbles overflew after I submitted this piece.. Coincidence, right?
I will fight for the truth. I receive no compensation for my work and expect none. I support the cause of peace and not Empire. Thanks for the intelligent supportive comments. Ad hominem attacks mean nothing. Thanks to Ron for posting though he disagrees.
I wrote a better reply last night (which I srcewed up).
… but reiterate the main points now.
Am tn doubt re. ‘Smowden”when he was constantly whining about Russia, getting hhs pole-dancing gf to join him there must have been a major effort, but he has no gratitude for it.
Really strange.
At the time, I thought that Putin’s comment ‘he is a strsange young man’ had to do only with questions of loyalty and betrayal, of course, it was lilekely deeper and more suspicious than that.
If I had been in the position like ‘Snowden’, after first having been granted asylum, my priority would have been to study the language.
I would gtuess that he can order food or drink, do basic greetings, and not much else.
Snowden’s wife is a former pole dancer, those are for good for something, but its not marrying. Everything about him suggests immaturity, from his toying with the idea of being a model to his trying to go from frail civilian with a youth spent 24/7 gaming to passing jumps school. He stole vstly more than he could ever have read, much of it having no bearing on privacy so he has no idea what he might have comprised. Quoth he:
If you have meaningful values (ie those that do not charge to suit your personal aggrandisement) you resign, I but instead of doing that he deliberately got another job contracting with the NSA all the better to steal data.
That was fast, even for this pub.
You mean being positive about you UNABLE to visualize a byte from a “keypress” moving all the way to the LAN cable with each timer “click”? You know, buffers, busses, microcode/firmware, interrupts, stack/heap, closed source, encryption/decryption layer of the OSI stack etc. That’s for technology.
As for people, unaware of an average idiot user in any environment using IT, Governments in particular, and the role and power of sysadmins in such environments?
But confident to write articles what can and can not be done re IT security?
Yeah…….
Not sure about Pythagoras, but there are (very unfortunately) people who might have
fun from combining “Rubik’s Cube and highly classified information”.
And not necessarily in reality.
Butthurt you are, yes?
Tell me how he defeats this, be specific.
https://www.symantec.com/products/endpoint-encryption
White paper here.
https://www.symantec.com/content/dam/symantec/docs/white-papers/keeping-your-private-data-secure-en.pdf
Y. Lorenzo
And I don’t care; fine, he was a clever op, he hacked the NSA, whoo-hoo. My other comments still stand.
Go wave your flag, you’re done.
Yes, Rand Paul who while cutting his lawn provoked his own retired doctor neighbour in a gated community into a maddened vicious rib dislocating attack that cost Paul part of his lung What a brilliant choice to annoy the government.
Skirpal is in America. The British got Skirpal out of Russia, but Russia could have killed him any time because he was homesick and meeting people from the Russian Embassy. In my opinion the Russians were trying to kill Skirpal’s daughter along with him. They knew she was coming and timed the nerve agent attack so as to ‘accidentally’ kill her along with the traitor. The knowledge that you will go after their families is the ultimate deterrent. Unless you are a narcissistic dick like Snowden, who hardly mentions anything his family did for him except getting a second phone line so he could play some stupid internet game. Snowden actually says in his book that the internet raised him. It did not get him a job in the CIA despite him having no degree, that was his mom’s NSA and her father’s Pentagon connections. Aldrich Ames’s father worked for the CIA.
Edward Snowden is a great man – a great American. (Will a Dem president pardon him?)
I recently viewed a video on how a poor immigrant family hid Snowden before he secured a flight out of Hong Kong. (He is working to get them out of Hong Kong, to Canada.)
I am curious as to how he got the flight out to Russia?????
This will be my final comment.
My issue is one regarding Snowden’s character and integrity, especially as the collapsing Empire under FUBAR Trump is waging war on the world.
Come on, none of the CIA trolls here have read The Saker with Orlov on the fate of the mass murdering Empire?
https://www.unz.com/tsaker/placing-the-usa-on-a-collapse-continuum-with-dmitry-orlov/
Sound familiar? Read it and weep. Your pensions are toast.
Or read Chris Hedges America The Farewell Tour.
Snowden’s character is proven by his interview with Brian Roberts.
Now, although only 14% of U.S. TLAMs got past Syrian air defenses, hear him was rhapsodic on the “beautiful missiles.”
And Snowden is happy to talk to this creep? And asks Rothschild-Kravis puppet Macron to ex-filtrate him to France?
https://www.voltairenet.org/article204303.html
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201909141076804460-go-west-edward-snowden-hopes-frances-emmanuel-macron-will-approve-his-asylum-application/
Call it female intuition, Snowden creeps me out.
Those who want to bow before his altar, be my guest. You have free will.
From an author here?!
Whoah……..
My God, Unz…..really? Coming to this?
Hahaha……oh man.
Just realized, isn’t this creature the only female author here?
A female creature is writing, as an author, on alt-whatever site, about things she has never been professionally involved in. With certain…hahaha…style.
Hahaha……..oh my.
So, what have we got:
1. Unz finally collapsed under “diversity” pressure?
2. There is, sort of a hidden, message here.
I really hope it’s the second.
True…true….mea culpa. Female stuff, that is, in general.
Style, though, is unique for the creature here.
I mean…hahaha….when reading those things it’s, almost, as written by a certain type of commentators here. Almost as one of them, actually. Same “footprint”. Especially the first two.
I mean, having that from an author here is, really, a new low for sure.
This is the first time I’ve seen something like that, and my attitude was mild in this thread compared to some in other threads. I mean, I was quite hard on some authors here, and never, so far that. “Butthurt”……….”whoo-hoo”………
I’ve quite offended a couple of authors here and they never replied with any rude word. And ..my God…”whoo-hoo”. Haha…crazy.
New “quality” seeping here, apparently. Hehe…getting with times, I guess. And program.
Understandable.
O.K. I could be wrong.
I’ve been on this site for quite some time. Read, on average, 20 % of articles and similar number of comments in those articles.
I can’t, really, recollect ONE case when an AUTHOR, here, in a comments exchange with a commentator, used the words “butthurt” and “whoo-hoo”. Not once from the, say, authors from the West. Born and raised there, that is. Cultural thing, I guess.
Anyone could prove me senile/wrong? Please.
I agree. Shilling for the Israelis regarding 911 is a deal breaker for me. They had me going about these 2 guys for a while, but when I heard that they had ridiculed 911 truthers I smelled a rat. And after this article I agree they are shills for the status quo. Reasonable people can not doubt that 911 was a false flag operation. There’s just too much bullshit there.
Ilana Mercer is a woman who writes on UR.
I think the idea Snowden is a “plant” is a bit far out there. If he is; the real purpose of the exercise is what exactly?
I also don’t get why some commenters think Julian Assange isn’t who he claims to be. His Wikileaks has published great volume of highly embarrassing material for the U.S. The embassy cables come to mind – bringing to light evidence contrary to Washington narrative on many events.
There is another thing; Just after he established Wikileaks he came to Iceland and met with journalists and few politicians. The result from that visit was he met one Kristinn Hrafnsson, long time journalist in Iceland with excellent track record and credibility. Since Assange got in trouble, accused of sexual harassment from Swedish woman and finally escaped into the Ecuador embassy in London, Hrafnsson has been spokesman for Wikileaks.
Since I am familiar with Hrafnsson work for decades, I would be very surprised if he worked with Assagne all this time, and even took over his job, so to speak, as head of Wikileaks if Assagne wasn’t genuine. Hrafnsson has struck me as smart guy and honest and it’s extremely unlikely he would continue if something didn’t smell right at Wikileaks. I also want to point out Wikileaks has been working with, what I consider the few remaining NEWS outlets in Europe. (Including The Guardian before it was bought few years ago and became worthless).
To Assagne credit he booted Icelandic polititian, one Birgitta Jónsdóttir; who tried to visit him in U.K. prison – and wanted nothing to do with her. She has been trying to make international name for herself as fighter for human rights and peacemaker and against corruption and so forth. Unfortunately she is a bag full of hot air and thinks SHE is the center of the universe. It’s all about her and therefore she is of no use for any cause. Julian was right to send her packing.
I can’t imagine what the CIA or NSA or other tentacles of the Empire would gain by running Wikileaks. It makes absolutely no sense to me.
Here you can view interview by Chris Hedges with Hrafnsson on RT. You decide if this guy is genuine or not. It seems he has basically been running Wikileaks for past several years.
https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/461987-kristinn-hrafnsson-extradition-wikileaks/
Wow. Thank you for posting that. Doesn’t look too good for Assange.
> Call it female intuition, Snowden creeps me out.
Can’t refute that! #BelieveWomen
> A helicopter outfitted with surveillance bubbles overflew after I submitted this piece.. Coincidence, right?
No coincidence, they’re distributing corn sharks in a contract with ADM. Stay indoors and cover your head with tin foil.
“9/11 is the Litmus Test ” By Smoking – Mirrors.Com :
“It all comes down to 9/11.Everything that has happened has happened based on a lie . Everyone in Government ; everyone in the media , in entertainment , in organized religion , in the public ,in the public eye who accepts and promotes the official story is either a traitor or a tool . Everyone who does not stand forth and speak truth to power is a coward , a liar and complicit in mass-murder . Everyone
everywhere can be measured by this Litmus Test .”
No one can prove you anything but pathologically ambivalent.
Yes, it is opposites that attract.
Julian is his own worst enemy. In a recent documentary about Assange he cooperated on, Helena Kennedy top leftie lawyer in Britain was talking to him about how to present his case against the sexual assault charges old Julian was facing. He kept interrupting her saying the accusers were lesbians. Kennedy tried to explain that was not a defence, him saying it made him look bad, and the image he created by what he said about the accusers was important. He kept interrupting her with the same stuff until finally she gave up. You could see the wheels working in her head about where he was going to land himself.
You have many important, thought-worthy points.
Ignore the trolls/orcs.
Thank you.
I just watched part of Snowden’s interview with Brian Ross. Yes, the Patriot Act is now over and done and he’s really made changes to the NSA. He’s a reformer, don’t you know?
Here’s the link to his interview with that “great” American, Brian Williams, thanks to those who posted here:
And from The Saker’s site on 11 September; Snowden, even for those who supported him, has done nothing to change this and admits to implementing the most grotesque tools of the Patriot Act. Where was his “conscience” then? Again, he is unrepentant. He has no remorse for the millions of innocents slain by the National Security State. He volunteered for the CIA and has no issue with all its crimes, from drug running to worse. See the book CIA As Organized Crime.
https://thesaker.is/9-11-the-deep-state-false-flag-that-keeps-on-condoning-western-terrorism-at-home-and-around-the-world/
Oh my. Missed that.
C…r…a…z..y….
O.K.
Let’s wait for the second….ahm…author…of this type to see is this simply an oversight by some people, or…. there is some intention behind it.
I’m not a liar. The fact is that there was a military helicopter with clear markings and surveillance equipment doing a low overflight. It might be a coincidence but there is no target of value over a residential neighborhood. Don’t call me a liar. Or smile when you say that.
Secondly, none you Snowden apologists can challenge the questions and facts I raised that he is suspect. You just engage in personal attacks.
At least Ron Unz offered an intelligent hypothesis as to Snowden’s actions and none of you here have.
peterAUS,
Oh, but they do, and not just for surveillance purposes but to mess with your mind too. I wouldn’t dismiss her claims out of hand – happens to people.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1172387.Psychic_Dictatorship_in_the_U_S_A_
What happened to, as in .95
?! Never mind.
Probably. That you have no idea about the techology you try to write articles about is another matter. Even that is O.K. even for an author here. Learning.
But you have no manners. You have no class and that’s inexcusable for an author here, a woman in particular. Language.
You could also be simply dumb, as:
“We” aren’t anyone’s apologists, creature; some of us have certain professional expertise in related matters. We just know how all that works, both on tech and human level.
An intelligent and dedicated sysadmin can do, anywhere, what Snowden did.
I don’t expect an average commnetator here to be able to “listen”, even less to “talk”. Most of them are idiots.
But…I do have much higher standards for authors. I expect them to be “ladies and gentlemen”.
As for
You mean using “butthurt”…?!
Wouldn’t know abut that “an intelligent hypothesis “.
I do know that Outrage Beyond , in the comment .52 explained most of it. I’d just keep it, again, simple:
An intelligent and dedicated sysadmin can do, anywhere, what Snowden did.
That’s all.
And, BTW, as for that “helicopter” and real-world surveillance, doesn’t work that way either.
You could research that topic too. If “they”are really onto you, you won’t see any helicopters anywhere. Just no need.
Every day, Monday to Friday, both on morning and evening rush hour, I have “helicopters with surveillance bubbles” flying over my house.
A lot of times during the night I have the same.
Not once I assumed they were onto me and doing anything else but traffic control and/or chasing some criminal around.
Listen….of all people you, as a Brit, should know how the real world surveillance really works.
‘Your” guys mastered it in the Troubles.
If you really think “they’ need surveillance helicopters to watch us posting here…I mean…just don’t do that.
As for “mind control” they don’t need anything high tech too. Beer and TV have been doing nicely there, thank you. And shopping. And social media. And….simply the mind of an average consumer drone in the West.
This was retweeted by Whitney Webb
I guess I was trying to inject some humour there. But then there’s that saying about being paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. That crazy, or maybe not so, author Alex Constantine claimed the CIA were projecting beams on him that had him writhing on the floor of his house in agony. Maybe they already manipulated this Yvonne’s mind by remote so that she writes disinfo like this. Well, just a very remote possibility. My main question is why is she trying to discredit Snowden? If he really is some CIA plant, the last people he’d be able to fool are Russian intelligence officers under whose observation he has been for so long. I think he’s a genuine guy who got fed up with what the NSA were doing and wanted to expose them because of his belief in civil liberties. But then it’s not as if he or Assange will be able to slow down, stop, or reverse the surveillance state. My opinion is sort of it’s good to know but so what? It’s not like people are going to do anything about it. Not as if they’ll go walking down the street and start shooting out and smashing all the CCTVs for starters in some massive campaign to restore citizens’ privacy. Or smash all their smartphones and computers because they’re spying on them. Far from it.
Wait. You serious?
The creature explained that itself, in the comment .95:
Back to the topic.
That’s my feeling too, but, honestly, don’t care much. It’s impossible to get to the truth in intelligence business unless you are the guy on the top of that particular play. Smoke, mirrors, deceptions…etc.
Not important, actually.
What IS important is:
As for the best surveillance tool that is, correct
It’s worse. Often, just for fun of it, I mention, when buying things with my card(s) that soon we’ll all have implants instead of cards in our wallets. I do it in an average middle-class environment.
Reaction, 9 times of 10: “…that would be good…”.
LOL. I guess I didn’t read her post and the thread carefully. But most spies are weird and creepy, seems to be the nature of the job.
Man, so they’re 90% ready for the mark of the beast? And they’ve long been warned in an old book most are familiar with. So what chance for Jean Raspail or some other more recent author to wake them up with prophecies of doom?
> but to mess with your mind too
Break out the tin foil hats! Myself, I upgraded to an old hubcap. Chicks dig it.
This is an amazing story of how Naval Intelligence drove a man to suicide utilizing disinformation:
It does not take very high tech to ruin someone’s life.
From MintPressNews.com that makes clear Snowden’s character, excerpts below; honorable people should read the entire article and see how it verifies my claims:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/edward-snowden-julian-assange-unfamiliar-permanent-record/262103/
Oh, one final point: this article by Edward Curtin challenges Chris Hedges. I find it applicable to Mr. Snowden.
http://edwardcurtin.com/revealing-while-concealing-the-invisible-governments-conspiracies/
And as the MintPressNews.com article closed with: