Chuckle. A bit mean, but PiedCow blog has the best recent comments on the passing strange tale of Edward the Confessor:
High ArkaJune 16, 2013 at 4:24 AM
The hipster goatee thing Snowden has going on immediately makes his story 54% suspicious. That and the glasses pushes it over 61%.
If you were on a psychological operations planning committee, and you wanted to release a mole to make the voting public feel that liberal dissent was strong in this country, who would you choose? A white guy, of course. Hipster goatee and glasses with a sort of IT professional look–the guy you trust to fix your computer. Not in the military, because so many liberal people feel uncomfortable about military guys. But, has to have a “security” job so that he’s a confirmed insider.
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RepliesWilliam DueckJune 21, 2013 at 3:23 PM
Also, he made nice pay (therefore he qualifies as One Of Us) and worked in exotic locales (therefore “progressive”).
I am sorta surprised they could not find a black Jewish woman to tick a few more Stuff White People Like boxes. Wasn’t Whoopi Goldberg available?
ReplyWilliam DueckJune 21, 2013 at 3:18 PM
It’s funny that in 2006 when Mark Klein revealed what he learned about NSA and AT&T / Verizon colluding to have warrantless NSA eavesdropping on telecommunication, Glenn Greenwald didn’t care and didn’t pay any attention to it. After all, Greenwald is an expert on civil liberties and constitutional issues, while Klein was just an expert on telecommunication network security who physically witnessed the hardware and software that enabled the NSA eavesdropping. So of course Greenwald’s paying it no mind was “the truth,” and Klein’s revelations just more conspiracy insanity.
Fast forward 7 years and a handsome metro-sexual boy named Edward Snowden approaches Greenwald with the very same news Klein shared in 2006, and Greenwald’s BS Detector (TM) didn’t sound a single alarm. Instead Greenwald dutifully reported Snowden’s story as “breaking news” (despite 7 years of age) and hurriedly wrote numerous essays and countless tweets about the heroism of that lad… (Lila: I deleted an irrelevant personal attack)
Every essay Greenwald writes confirms he’s not an expert on civil liberties or constitutional law, yet his fame grows each year and the myth of him being the Real Expert is almost bulletproof now.
It’s not like Snowden didn’t know working as an NSA contractor through BAH employment would entail eavedropping on average Joes and Janes. He’d have learned that in his job interview. So the question becomes, why did Snowden accept the job and conduct himself in that role for several years until only just recently?
Greenwald doesn’t want to know