The leaker who won’t stop talking (This is satire right?)
The leaker who won’t stop talking
Experts say Edward Snowden's public activity risks undermining his privacy crusade. | AP Photo
By KATIE GLUECK and MACKENZIE WEINGER | 6/19/13 6:40 PM EDT
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“If I was advising him, the first thing I’d say is shut the hell up ’cause you’re not helping your cause,” Jim Manley, a senior director at the D.C. public affairs firm Quinn Gillespie & Associates, told POLITICO.
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“I think he’s doing a pretty poor job,” continued Manley, a former spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. “I don’t think his Q&A [Monday with The Guardian] made him any more sympathetic than he had been in the past. I think he is coming off as — leaving aside some of the issues he’s raising, which are fascinating — he’s coming across as petulant and arrogant and more than a little bit full of himself.”
Crisis management expert Eric Dezenhall quipped, “It’s almost as if he’s writing a screenplay at the same time he’s blowing the whistle.”
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That “whistleblower” image is resonating with enough people to give Snowden a hefty dose of worldwide support, Democratic strategist James Carville told POLITICO.
“I think he’s got the strategy to build himself up as a kind of global brand, a modern-day truth teller, I think he’s done a pretty good job, honestly,” Carville said. “I think he’s been pretty damn effective.”
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They are not used to someone being able to speak freely about their crimes, and they can not stand that.
Anyway, the more the piggies scream, the more i pay attention to what he is saying.
I'm glad he entrusted files to people who'll know what to do with them if anything happens to him. This story is not going away
That which we do not resist we will be forced to accept.
