-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/2015 01:58 PM, The Doctor wrote: > On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 09:53:56 -0700 Shelley > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are no sacred cows. There is only data, and whatever >> truth is borne out of it whether or not it's the answer we >> wish to see. The scientific method and all, you know, that >> most of us hold dear. > > This is the Internet! You can't say something reasonable! > J'accuse! > > <grin> > >> Snowden is not infallible. Cryptome/JY are not infallible. >> Hell, even Ellsberg isn't infallible (as we were recently >> reminded.) > > This. So much this.
And all because somebody got bent out of shape over comments made re attempting to challenge the attribution of a "leaked" document? That amounts to less than an ant fart in a tornado, in context? Lest we forget, the original PRISM slides were, at minimum, heavily altered by the Guardian and/or Post. Everyone who was paying any real attention at the time knows it. No firestorm of controversy followed. http://electrospaces.blogspot.nl/2013/06/are-nsas-prism-slides-photo shopped.html ... although it did influence my own early conclusions about the Snowden Affair, which have evolved a bit in response to subsequent events. Even so, I'm not the least embarrassed by any mistakes I may have made: http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-deception-operation-questions-surro und-leaked-prism-documents-authenticity :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWF7pwAAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0LDbYQAMdPAmv/b1pCoFpgfCad0UJk tZONmNYA+9LKm76fC2diLc7Cs4qsyJ5zLZPdNXEbxYhhBt7rPY4G2+7RGePW0+rq Oc3yZgkMSR0pknzTkBi5l0YpC45YUzTnI2WptHuCtVcvlTKhDkYbE4GQIO5RvFDb eIfP0AL7POXVCxwX/Lyh7LNpsU8Hfig5CL4+9pAr5roGcW9TXhOca+f6QvPXsq/F j9W3pfjqfPttQu/kRftP0BXsnPIOziVvp1kLr1MdkJ5glIW4xTQ3+lYTNG0J42VD 1D0vyGTv+tqb52uy/HyUMBL4dtGNLKwyQEN2pb43D6E5PkonYCfJ4rY+1rZxLdhr C9aqhUXMkPzUaf9tz3yFbRPfT8r7EHl/cybDAFacBU9VDBkD7/vEZ5vi0SU0CXf9 UIU9S/gdBFEC5gMmSzrGujt5r2dirFdQ+kfePlyvPlImtLassJTjWyFfwt9lwLqU 2wK3ztEcUherWSX5SsVXVnzMfvCI6vfKS3DwSX+FeWUg5ZFLI4SgHJNJQtcNhSLi ZgSd5XI+gySL12emmHZhNY1YyZM+CyyqCawJ5uQso9qV/uJNxJ6ofUrK7J1Necui LRgzE4LiTrTNLL59iA9AAHy2uEfvOfk1/Vx7z6TMNhvNeItBMpwRdHQ3VmthwluK PpTGusLjWwATGWZQ8v1/ =khsS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
