Monday, February 10, 2014
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Ed v. Ed or How to Think About the Snowden Operation - Wired State
Ed v. Ed or How to Think About the Snowden Operation - Wired State
It looks far more likely that he was trying to cripple the NSA and its allies, and to hurt America's standing in the world. Taking a huge cache of documents, and in a way that largely defies description, analysis or mitigation, is not the action of a patriotic whistleblower. It is the behaviour of a saboteur.
I couldn't agree more. A saboteur. And that is how Congress and the president and the courts need to look at this: deliberate sabotage, in the service of a radical agenda, helped by a radical movement, that has been exploited by Russia. We don't need to prove the hand of Moscow or Moscow gold in this affair to act -- and act cautiously and prudently.
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Code Name "VERAX": Snowden Uncovered - The Geneva Decision
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world," Snowden told The Guardian. "I realized that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good."
Aberrations In the System
Mr. Snowden's story about Geneva was an aberration in the system. Not only because it seemed out of place with the rest of his story about seeing unmitigated data collections, a story unto itself, nor simply because it sounded like a movie; an unnecessary embellishment when the information that was about to be released was already a significant weight for his version of "the truth". It was an aberration because it did not fit other common practices employed for developing a resource that are far less risky if also far less sexy.
Developing an informant is the key phrase, A banker in an important position at a bank is not a "throw away" informant. This would be a source that would and could be used over a longer period of time so it would be imperative to develop a relationship, not potentially kill him or her.
Whether it was because it was unnecessary backdrop against the rest of the story, because it was too movie-esque or outside of more common practices, Mr. Snowden presented an aberration. This aberration begged for more attention to his time in Geneva, a time when his personnel file would show he had already attempted or had obtained information and when his own aberrant behavior had brought him unwanted attention.
Geneva - March 2007 to February 2009
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