<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Holly Tannen</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:htannen@mcn.org">htannen@mcn.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:24 PM<br>Subject: [MCN-Discussion]- Glenn Greenwald on blaming Snowden for Paris attacks<br>To: "<a href="mailto:discussion@lists.mcn.org">discussion@lists.mcn.org</a> announce" <<a href="mailto:discussion@lists.mcn.org">discussion@lists.mcn.org</a>><br><br><br>Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS <<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/</a>><br>
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept<br>
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Whistleblowers are always accused of helping America’s enemies (top Nixon aides accused <<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/04/07/political-rhetoric-us-never-changes-nyts-attack-mlks-anti-war-speeches/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2015/04/07/political-rhetoric-us-never-changes-nyts-attack-mlks-anti-war-speeches/</a>> 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 <<a href="https://theintercept.com/2014/08/12/nprs-dina-temple-raston-passed-cia-funded-nsa-contractor-independent-fear-monger-snowden-reporting/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2014/08/12/nprs-dina-temple-raston-passed-cia-funded-nsa-contractor-independent-fear-monger-snowden-reporting/</a>> of Helping The Terrorists…<br>
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?<br>
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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.<br>
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More: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/</a> <<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2015/11/15/exploiting-emotions-about-paris-to-blame-snowden-distract-from-actual-culprits-who-empowered-isis/</a>><br>
Note particularly the 2003 Operational Security graph at the bottom: how closely “Jihadi” security measures match those of British spy agency GCHQ.<br>
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