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2013-08-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Snowdenski walked right into a bizarre alliance between Wikileads and Russia

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I miskeyed Wikileaks, but somehow it doesn't seem inappropriate.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-04 02:55|| 2013-08-04 02:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I dunno. If I were a tad more cynical, I'd say Russia and Wikileaks have been working together for quite some time.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-04 10:20|| 2013-08-04 10:20|| Front Page Top

#3 What's Bizarre about it? Russia likes using NGO's as weapons against other people.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-04 11:09|| 2013-08-04 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 They feel the same way about tanks and nukes. Great for them to use against other people, bad for other people to use against them.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-04 11:09|| 2013-08-04 11:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, is it possible that Snowden is a CIA mole? I mean, he drops all that information and then conveniently winds up in Moscow? Nah, I think the ~~KGB~~ FSB would be wasting its time looking into that, and I'm sorry I started the rumor.

Posted by Matt 2013-08-04 13:04|| 2013-08-04 13:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Possible, but unlikely. His actions, whereabouts, and communications will be under constant surveillance. His profile is far too high. Much easier to recruit one their well placed [Russian or former Soviet Satellite] malcontents and collect reporting and periodic updates over time.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-04 13:22|| 2013-08-04 13:22|| Front Page Top

#7 If I were a tad more cynical

Is that actually possible, Pappy dear? I realize my experience in the area of cynicism is limited, but even so... ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-04 14:10|| 2013-08-04 14:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Conspiracies not needed. SNowden was a tech, not a spy. And he walked the info out the door with the "right intent" in his own mind, due to the possibly unconstitutional aspects of the program he was revealing.

Problem is, its not like in the moves - and he's simply not field savvy nor anything but book smart. He's now being played by people far more clever than he is, and with far different motives than he likely had. Snowden is now oficially just another chump, the poor bastard.

Too bad we don't have a free press here in the US he thought he could trust - but if you want to be a whistleblower these days, you know that handing incendiary stuff over to an "investigative" reporter for NBC/CBS, the NY Times or WaPo is like living in the Soviet Union and giving it to a Pravda reporter - even if the reporter is straight up his editors are clearly in the pocket of the government regime in power.

Posted by OldSpook 2013-08-04 15:10|| 2013-08-04 15:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Yep, unlike Three Days of the Condor, today walking into the NYTs with the info would be like Winton Smith trusting OBrien.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-04 16:13|| 2013-08-04 16:13|| Front Page Top

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