The parent post is a great example of the "the Russians did 9/11"-style hysteria sweeping low-information political communities due to the election interference

The parent post is a great example of the "the Russians did 9/11"-style hysteria sweeping low-information political communities due to the election interference. Let's not inflate the Russians into Illuminati masterminds on HN. No Snowden document has ever been reported as fake, and much to the contrary, the Snowden reporting actually won the Pulitzer prize. The entire reason it's famous is because the documents were verifiably authentic. There have been a lot of allegations against Snowden by his critics, but even the Congressional intelligence committees didn't make the claim that he is a Russian agent. In fact the former NSA guy who was in charge of the Snowden investigation said on camera there's no evidence of that, and that if Snowden were a spy, they would know by now.