On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 19:26:46 -0500 Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 12/8/18 3:41 PM, juan wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 13:44:22 -0500 > > Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Greenwald distributed the PRISM documents to several press outlets, at > >> least one of which edited them before release per side by side > >> comparison of published versions. (Or, more than one version was > >> distributed by Greenwald for whatever reason.) > >> > >> So it seems likely that Snowden got his information about how and where > >> the documents were forwarded to news outlets from Greenwald himself. > > > > I didn't see evidence for that. > > Because Snowden's tale includes how he failed to find a journalist, any > journalist, who was interested in his materials /and/ capable of > communicating via an encrypted channel. Yes but that doesn't add up. > So he had to settle for film > maker Poitras, and attorney & partisan political talking head Greenwald > - just because Poitras was willing/able to use TOR and/or GPG. The story I remember is that he wanted to contact greenwald and that greenwald was too retarded to know how to use pgpg. > > Before delivering docs to Greenwald, nobody in the news biz would talk > to Snowden, at least not on his terms. After, he had no opportunity to > do any more handoffs. > > Snowden's tale of how "journalists" should decide what to release > strikes me as a cover story, explaining away his failure to send the > docs to Wikileaks by 'failure' you mean he just didn't want to send them to wikileaks because wilileaks would actually publish the stuff? I guess in the end it doesn't matter if he gave the docs only to greenwald or to a couple more journos. But granted, if only greenwald got them in the first place then yes, that's even more suspect. > and have done with them, vs. throwing away his entire > life, more or less, via contrived-looking cloak and dagger bullshit. > You mean he could have leaked the docs without being detected? Maybe, I guess. > :o/ > > > >
