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Snowden contacted Laura Poitras first, with this famous mail: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitras/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/sno

by nagkl 3y ago

Snowden contacted Laura Poitras first, with this famous mail: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitras/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitr... "You ask why I picked you. I didn't. You did. The surveillance you've experienced means you've been selected, a term which will mean more to you as you learn about how the modern sigint system works." I wish everyone here would watch the movie Citizen Four to learn more about the backgrounds and the actual events. He was an anti-surveillance activist. Is it because of the Ukraine conflict that people are now trying to link him to anti-US foreign policy sentiments? Why wasn't this the topic in 2012?

0xDEF 3y ago
>trying to link him to anti-US foreign policy sentiments Being anti-US foreign policy is generally a good thing and the only reason you are going to leak to Glenn Greenwald of all people in late 2012. Snowden also exposed that it was not Bashar al-Assad's legitimate democratically elected government that turned off the Internet in Syria in 2012. It was actually the NSA: https://time.com/3107684/snowden-nsa-syria-cybersecurity/ https://time.com/3107684/snowden-nsa-syria-cybersecurity/ No other "anti-surveillance activist" would have stood up Assad in 2012. Only Snowden dared to do that because he is a heroic world citizen opposed to US influence and control of the world.
- mixmastamyk 3y ago
  What a bizarre tangent, with nothing to back it up besides “2012.” Nothing wrong with Greenwald besides being a well-written PITA. He also saw the story though, at substantial risk to himself. A great choice to be included, even from hindsight. I read GGs pieces on Salon about the Bush Admin in the early 00s and was impressed enough to remember his name later. At no time do I remember him being an “axis of evil” apologist.

by nagkl 3y ago

0xDEF 3y ago

>trying to link him to anti-US foreign policy sentiments Being anti-US foreign policy is generally a good thing and the only reason you are going to leak to Glenn Greenwald of all people in late 2012. Snowden also exposed that it was not Bashar al-Assad's legitimate democratically elected government that turned off the Internet in Syria in 2012. It was actually the NSA: https://time.com/3107684/snowden-nsa-syria-cybersecurity/ https://time.com/3107684/snowden-nsa-syria-cybersecurity/ No other "anti-surveillance activist" would have stood up Assad in 2012. Only Snowden dared to do that because he is a heroic world citizen opposed to US influence and control of the world.

mixmastamyk 3y ago
What a bizarre tangent, with nothing to back it up besides “2012.” Nothing wrong with Greenwald besides being a well-written PITA. He also saw the story though, at substantial risk to himself. A great choice to be included, even from hindsight. I read GGs pieces on Salon about the Bush Admin in the early 00s and was impressed enough to remember his name later. At no time do I remember him being an “axis of evil” apologist.