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In reply to the discussion: Snowden: Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 18, 2014, 07:42 PM - Edit history (2)
If it's "not his job", why in fuck's name is he even asking? And if it's not his job, why has exposing stuff in other countries all this time been "his job"?
You know the biggest irony of the whole thing? Just like the question, Putin's response was set on a tee and begging to be smashed for a grand slam...But for some strange reason all Snowden can say in his damage-control op-ed is "hmmmm...Interesting response--Maybe some journalists will look into it further..." (like there hasn't been a metric ton of stories already written about Russia from news sites all over the globe)...Nevermind the fact that the reason why Snowden fled his country and forced the issue is because he was tired of sitting and waiting for "journalists to look into it further"... And all Greenwald can say about the whole thing is "Isn't Snowden brave and full of integrity? Why don't all you haters leave him alone!!" (Do I even need to post links to all the American journalists not named Greenwald who have systematically destroyed Putin's claim today?)
For all their bullshit the past 11 months about privacy rights, civil liberties, transparency, tearing apart lies coming out of Washington and exposing government wrongdoing, this is a not only complete abdication of any kind of moral or ethical responsibility, all of my criticisms about hypocrisy, sensationalism and selective outrage have been vindicated (there's that word again)
EDIT: Andrei Soldatov, the journalist Snowden cites? Said today on twitter that Snowden nor his people have ever approached him for a chat (nor have they approached any other Russian investigative journalists...Now why would that be?)