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The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED Talk
- dmfdmf 13y agoThis is a tacit admission that Snowden is winning the battle for public opinion. They must be scared.
- 3rd3 13y agoWhat would be the advantage of such tactic?
- dmfdmf 13y agoSnowden is not being treated as a traitor as they had hoped but as a hero for revealing NSA dragnet surveillance programs and sacrificing his life for his principles. He is now perceived as an expert on how to circumvent these NSA programs. Contrast this with the low public opinion of Assange or Manning neither of which required any direct comment by the NSA. They must feel they are losing the PR battle and need to respond in the case of Snowden which I thought was revealing.
- Zigurd 13y agoThere was a ton of evasion and filibustering in those answers. Zero specific people actually endangered by the Snowden revelations, and zero terrorists thwarted. He claimed some links among people might have been revealed by the metedata collection program, but he cited zero cases where NSA data provided unique information.