[liberationtech] How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

[Tom O]

So it's now become about the "heroism" of the journalists and not Snowden
and mass govt surveillance.

Right.

On Thursday, August 22, 2013, Scott Elcomb wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'eugen at leitl.org');>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> (possible dupe)
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=1&&pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> “I read intelligence carefully,” said Senator Dianne
>> Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, shortly after
>> the
>> first Snowden articles appeared. “I know that people are trying to get
>> us. .
>> . . This is the reason the F.B.I. now has 10,000 people doing
>> intelligence on
>> counterterrorism. . . . It’s to ferret this out before it happens. It’s
>> called protecting America.”
>
>
> And here I thought it was called the "Homeland" ... at least that's what
> it's called on her map: <
> http://o.canada.com/2013/08/01/canada-homeland-map/>
>
> Yay for geography and sovereignty.
>
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