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In reply to the discussion: How the NSA Helps the US Assassinate (Greenwald / Scahill) [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)One of the key questions in all of this has been "Why did Snowden steal, and then leak, so much information that had nothing to do with Domestic Surveillance?"
Is it possible that the information on Domestic Surveillance wasn't really the primary target?
Could Snowden's real target have been something in the other, larger set of information?
Imagine you are a foreign government and you want to steal some very specific info about the US's foreign programs, but you don't want it to be obvious that you did so. Why not hide your needle in a haystack. Steal the info you want, along with a ton of other stuff, so the real purpose is obscured. Then, have some one leak bits and pieces unrelated to the primary target.
As you suggest, why would Greenwald start throwing out information about counter-terrorism information that Snowden took, if the primary target was really the Domestic Surveillance information?
In any case, Greenwald isn't helping Snowden here. But now that Greenwald has the all the information, Snowden's future might be even less of a concern for him.