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In reply to the discussion: Naomi Wolf calls bullshit on the Snowden story [View all]caseymoz
(5,763 posts)Because the guy's more articulate than most and because of her purportedly extensive statistics on Whistleblowers' personalities, obviously done with a well-funded study, she suspects he must be a conspiracy within a conspiracy. Why? To bring down Obama? The risk the intelligence industry is taking in doing this is great, because if Obama reverses himself and works to shut down these programs, the plan backfires. Unlike Nixon, people will support the guy because the real Nixons who won't reverse themselves are in the other party.
Oh, and Dick Cheney thinks Snowden is a traitor. That's right folks, no less than Snidely Subtlety himself, Dick Cheney agrees with you here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/16/dick-cheney-edward-snowden_n_3450006.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Lies are terribly difficult to detect. People are poor at doing it. To try to guess by the standards she's using have as much reliability as reading tea leaves.