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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts) Mon Jun 2, 2014, 07:30 PM Jun 2014

A true whistleblower doesn’t behave like Edward Snowden

By Walter Pincus
June 2 at 6:17 PM

... Snowden claimed during Wednesday’s NBC interview with Brian Williams that he’d tried to be a whistleblower and had complained through official channels before turning to journalists ...

Published reports say that Snowden, while working on an NSA contract with the Dell Corp. in Hawaii in 2012, spent “parts of 2012 downloading the documents he thought the world should see,” as Greenwald notes in his book ...

Snowden has told The Washington Post that beginning in October 2012 he brought his concerns about widespread agency surveillance to two superiors in the NSA’s Technology Directorate and two in the NSA Threat Operations Center’s regional base in Hawaii. He has not supplied material to back that up ...

When asked by NBC’s Williams when he decided to start clandestinely collecting the documents, Snowden said that “given the ongoing <federal criminal> investigation, that’s something better not to get into in a news interview, but I’d be happy to discuss these things with the government” ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-true-whistleblower-doesnt-behave-like-edward-snowden/2014/06/02/5e8484e0-e90c-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html

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A true whistleblower doesn’t behave like Edward Snowden (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2014 OP

Sibel Edmonds has problems with him as a "whistleblower" as well. And she's made no qualms about... Tarheel_Dem Jun 2014 #1

Logic errors for $100, Alex. GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #3

Did you learn anything about the NSA upaloopa Jun 2014 #2

How would Pincus know anything about that? Here is a lengthy correction of another of his hit jobs. xocet Jun 2014 #4

Pincus has been in the pockets of intelligence services for years and years. DisgustipatedinCA Jun 2014 #5

Tarheel_Dem

(31,234 posts)

1. Sibel Edmonds has problems with him as a "whistleblower" as well. And she's made no qualms about...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 07:36 PM

Jun 2014

her distaste for GG and his ($$$$$) grubbin'.

GeorgeGist

(25,321 posts)

3. Logic errors for $100, Alex.

Reply to Tarheel_Dem (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:28 PM

Jun 2014

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

2. Did you learn anything about the NSA

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 07:48 PM

Jun 2014

you didn't know before?

xocet

(3,871 posts)

4. How would Pincus know anything about that? Here is a lengthy correction of another of his hit jobs.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 01:08 AM

Jun 2014

Questions for Snowden
By Walter Pincus July 8, 2013

Correction: A previous version of this Fine Print column incorrectly said that an article by journalist Glenn Greenwald was written for the WikiLeaks Press blog.The article, about filmmaker Laura Poitras and WikiLeaks being targeted by U.S. officials, was written for the online publication Salon and first appeared April 8, 2012. Its appearance on the WikiLeaks Press blog two days later was a reposting. This version has been corrected. A previous version of the column also asserted that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, during a May 29 interview with Democracy Now, “previewed” the story that Greenwald wrote for the Guardian newspaper about the Obama administration’s involvement in the collection of Americans’ phone records. There is no evidence that Assange had advance knowledge of the story; the assertion was based on a previously published interview in which Assange discussed an earlier surveillance project involving the collection of phone records.The assertion has been taken out of this version. The column also does not mention Snowden’s past work in the intelligence community. The lack of this context may have created the impression that Snowden’s work for Booz Allen Hamilton gave him his first access to classified surveillance programs.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/questions-for-snowden/2013/07/08/d06ee0f8-e428-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html

The story is not about Snowden or even Pincus.

It is about the NSA's overreach.

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)

5. Pincus has been in the pockets of intelligence services for years and years.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Jun 3, 2014, 03:36 PM

Jun 2014

He's a mouthpiece, and he's a part of the problem.

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