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Naomi Wolf: My creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be
My creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be
http://naomiwolf.org/2013/06/my-creeping-concern-that-the-nsa-leaker-is-not-who-he-purports-to-be/
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I hate to do this but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved in the story may be more complex than they appear to be. This is in no way to detract from the great courage of Glenn Greenwald in reporting the story, and the gutsiness of the Guardian in showcasing this kind of reporting, which is a service to America that US media is not performing at all. It is just to raise some cautions as the story unfolds, and to raise some questions about how it is unfolding, based on my experience with high-level political messaging.
Some of Snowdens emphases seem to serve an intelligence/police state objective, rather than to challenge them....
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Naomi Wolf: My creeping concern that the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be (Original Post)
Mika
Jun 2013
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JustAnotherGen
(31,999 posts)1. Edit OP name to Naomi Wolf
Please.
Mika
(17,751 posts)2. Thanks. Typed a brain fart.
Roselma
(540 posts)3. Tried to follow your link to Wolf's
blog post, but my AVG picked up a "threat" called "Exploit Blackhole Exploit Kit (type 2602). AVG rated this as a high severity threat.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)6. Works fine for me, no warning or "threat."
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)4. K&R nt
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)5. .
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Response to Mika (Original post)
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bemildred
(90,061 posts)8. The story reeks of bullshit.
I would not want to take a side as far as who is responsible for the bullshittiness, could be all of them anyway, but the smell I recognize.