Greenwald Responds to Critics, Rejects Conspiracism
Posted on January 12, 2014 by Kevin Ryan
The story of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has dominated the mainstream news for the last seven months. During that time, questions about Snowden and his disclosures have framed the national discussion about domestic surveillance. Those disclosures have not resulted in any changes to U.S. domestic surveillance practices to date. Instead, the U.S. Justice Department has re-certified the programs in question as Americans discuss media talking points like—Is Snowden a traitor or a hero? A growing number of people are looking behind that media-generated framework, however, and are beginning to wonder if the right questions are even being asked.
What we know about Edward Snowden is that he was a Special Forces recruit in the U.S. Army, an NSA employee, an NSA contractor for at least two different companies, and a CIA employee under cover. All of this occurred in a span of only a few years and he was able to command six-figure salaries despite having no education beyond a high school equivalency certification. Of the many positions he held in a period of approximately six years, the most long-lived appears to have been his work with the CIA where this 20-something spy was, in his own words, a “senior advisor.”
When asked about his background and motivations, Snowden said, “I’m just another guy.” He went on to say that his leaking of NSA secrets was what we needed to know, implying that it was all we needed to know, about NSA spying. “This is the truth… This is what’s happening,” he said. The remainder of the story has been presented in stories like those by The New York Times, which paint Snowden in an increasingly favorable light. The Times, which was called a mouthpiece for the Obama Administration by Glenn Greenwald, the reporter chosen by Snowden to reveal his story, has come out calling for clemency for Snowden.
However, the questions about the evolving Snowden story have grown rapidly and continue to present challenges to citizens who are alert to the prevalence of corporate media propaganda. How many stolen documents are there and who has access to them? Why have only a tiny fraction of the documents been released seven months after they were first disclosed by Snowden? Why has Glenn Greenwald made a deal with the owner of Paypal Corporation—the company whose former executives now produce the technologies used for domestic spying?
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it’s so hard not to be a cynic these days.
It is not only dubious the motives and background of Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden, but also the various global agencies of United Nations, represented by “contractors”, much like all the U.S. contractors doing much of the U.S government and military work in the field; it is suspicious the way these kind of operators are inserting themselves like vaccines into the Central Asian and Eastern European and former USSR countries’ internal national networks. See THE NGO OBSERVER, http://beaties_of_bulgaria.tripod.com/NGO-OBSERVER/The_NGO_OBSERVER.html … for how such systems work in Tbilisi, Georgia, with dossiers on the EU players at:
http://beaties_of_bulgaria.tripod.com/NGO-OBSERVER/GAHSC_STAFF.html