[Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Discussion]- Glenn Greenwald on blaming Snowden for Paris attacks

[DANIEL BAKER]

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From: Holly Tannen <htannen at mcn.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:24 PM
Subject: [MCN-Discussion]- Glenn Greenwald on blaming Snowden for Paris
attacks
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Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual
Culprits Who Empowered ISIS <
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
>
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept

Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America’s enemies (top Nixon
aides accused <
https://theintercept.com/2015/04/07/political-rhetoric-us-never-changes-nyts-attack-mlks-anti-war-speeches/>
Daniel Ellsberg of being a Soviet spy and causing the deaths of Americans
with his leak); it’s just the tactical playbook that’s automatically used.
So it’s of course unsurprising that ever since Edward Snowden’s
whistleblowing enabled newspapers around the world to report on secretly
implemented programs of mass surveillance, he has been accused by
“officials” and their various media allies <
https://theintercept.com/2014/08/12/nprs-dina-temple-raston-passed-cia-funded-nsa-contractor-independent-fear-monger-snowden-reporting/>
of Helping The Terrorists…
One key premise here seems to be that prior to the Snowden reporting, The
Terrorists helpfully and stupidly used telephones and unencrypted emails to
plot, so Western governments were able to track their plotting and disrupt
at least large-scale attacks. That would come as a massive surprise to the
victims of the attacks of 2002 in Bali, 2004 in Madrid, 2005 in London,
2008 in Mumbai, and April 2013 at the Boston Marathon. How did the multiple
perpetrators of those well-coordinated attacks — all of which were carried
out prior to Snowden’s June 2013 revelations — hide their communications
from detection?

This is a glaring case where propagandists can’t keep their stories
straight. The implicit premise of this accusation is that The Terrorists
didn’t know to avoid telephones or how to use effective encryption until
Snowden came along and told them. Yet we’ve been warned for years and years
before Snowden that The Terrorists are so diabolical and sophisticated that
they engage in all sorts of complex techniques to evade electronic
surveillance.

More:
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
<
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/
>
Note particularly the 2003 Operational Security graph at the bottom: how
closely “Jihadi” security measures match those of British spy agency GCHQ.
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