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Wikileaks, Snowden, and the Belarus Connection
- tptacek 13y agoThe idea that Wikileaks would be represented by a holocaust-denying quasi-apparatchik is so DC-comics evil that even I doubt it's real. You'd like a clearer denial from Wikileaks about it, but then, you'd like a clearer denial about anything in any dispute, and it's not always reasonable to demand one: at some point things devolve to "half you stopped beating your wife yet?" Advocating the for the government of Belarus is, in geopolitical terms, really epsilon from beating ones spouse.
- gruseom 13y agoI don't disagree, but here's why I posted this. First, the author has credibility: ex-counterintelligence officer (including NSA) whose blog posts are consistently interesting and who doesn't seem to be a propagandist. Second, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a pretty common principle in the political realm. It's poisonous, because human affairs ought not to be treated at the crude level of a Boolean formula. But it's also dismayingly normal. And Assange seems to be this kind of binary operator (sorry). So it wouldn't be surprising if they had thrown in with Belarus in some strange way. (The Shamir thing is bizarre, though.)