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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 01:22 PM Oct 2015

Edward Snowden just contradicted himself in a big way

Edward Snowden told the BBC in a new interview that he "gave all of my information to American journalists and free society generally."

It's another chapter in an ongoing series of seemingly contradictory statements on a central question of Snowden's story: What exactly happened to all of the NSA documents he stole?

Snowden has previously said he gave up all information to American journalists. And he has also made the opposite assertion.

On June 12, 2013, two days after identifying himself to the world and fleeing the US, the former NSA contractor originally told the South China Morning Post (SCMP) that he hadn't given everything to American journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald — because he had to review the data he was leaking.

http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-and-information-to-american-journalists-2015-10

How many more times will he and Greenwald change their story? It's been about a dozen already...

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yurbud

(39,405 posts)
5. ignore, ridicule, character assassination, actual assassination
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:22 PM
Oct 2015

If Snowden returns, he's likely to immediately go from step 3 to step 4.

name not needed

(11,660 posts)
3. You hear that folks? He's completely discredited.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:19 PM
Oct 2015

The government's actions are 100% justified and above board. And besides, it's not like you have anything to hide, right?

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
6. you would think Democrats would see through personal attacks after a decade of the right talking
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:24 PM
Oct 2015

about Bill Clinton's penis.

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