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I never understood this. As a sorry admission of both laziness and not knowing where to look, could someone give the TL; DR of the reason for this? I read this

by state 13y ago

I never understood this. As a sorry admission of both laziness and not knowing where to look, could someone give the TL; DR of the reason for this? I read this when it came out as well and found it really odd in contrast to their chummy chat.

recuter 13y ago
http://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html http://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html << This is really worth the click but here is an excerpt. "So just how close is Google to the US securitocracy? Back in 2011 I had a meeting with Eric Schmidt, the then-Chairman of Google, who came out to see me with three other people while I was under house arrest. You might suppose that coming to see me was gesture that he and the other big boys at Google were secretly on our side.. The pretext for their visit was that Schmidt was then researching a new book, a banal tome which has since come out as The New Digital Age. .. Two months after my meeting with Eric Schmidt, WikiLeaks had a legal reason to call Hillary Clinton and to document that we were calling her. It is interesting that if you call the front desk of the State Department and ask for Hillary Clinton, you can actually get pretty close, and we have become quite good at this. ..eventually we got up to Hillary Clinton’s senior legal advisor, who said that we would be called back. Shortly afterwards another one of our people, WikiLeaks’ ambassador Joseph Farrell, received a call back to discuss the parametres of the call with Hillary, not from the State Department, but from Lisa Shields, the then-girlfriend of Eric Schmidt, who does not formally work for the US State Department. So let’s reprise this situation: The Chairman of Google’s girlfriend was being used as a back channel for Hillary Clinton. This is illustrative. It shows that at this level of US society, as in other corporate states, it is all musical chairs. That visit from Google while I was under house arrest was, as it turns out, an unofficial visit from the State Department."

by state 13y ago

recuter 13y ago

http://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html http://wikileaks.org/Op-ed-Google-and-the-NSA-Who-s.html << This is really worth the click but here is an excerpt. "So just how close is Google to the US securitocracy? Back in 2011 I had a meeting with Eric Schmidt, the then-Chairman of Google, who came out to see me with three other people while I was under house arrest. You might suppose that coming to see me was gesture that he and the other big boys at Google were secretly on our side.. The pretext for their visit was that Schmidt was then researching a new book, a banal tome which has since come out as The New Digital Age. .. Two months after my meeting with Eric Schmidt, WikiLeaks had a legal reason to call Hillary Clinton and to document that we were calling her. It is interesting that if you call the front desk of the State Department and ask for Hillary Clinton, you can actually get pretty close, and we have become quite good at this. ..eventually we got up to Hillary Clinton’s senior legal advisor, who said that we would be called back. Shortly afterwards another one of our people, WikiLeaks’ ambassador Joseph Farrell, received a call back to discuss the parametres of the call with Hillary, not from the State Department, but from Lisa Shields, the then-girlfriend of Eric Schmidt, who does not formally work for the US State Department. So let’s reprise this situation: The Chairman of Google’s girlfriend was being used as a back channel for Hillary Clinton. This is illustrative. It shows that at this level of US society, as in other corporate states, it is all musical chairs. That visit from Google while I was under house arrest was, as it turns out, an unofficial visit from the State Department."