Greenwald Lashes Back At Critics Who Call Snowden A Russian Propagandist

[MADem]

143. We will have to agree to disagree.

Of course, if Snowden knew the answer to before he asked the question, he also knew that Putin was a lying hypocrite--as one secret agent to another, of course.

Putin doesn't even remember his old bullshit! From the history files:

http://jurist.org/paperchase/2006/03/putin-signs-russia-anti-terror-bill.php

JURIST- Russian President Vladimir Putin (official website, English version)Monday signed into law new anti-terrorism legislation giving the Russian police and military broad authority to tap telephone conversations and control electronic communications in the vicinity of counter-terror operations, shoot down hijacked planes threatening public places or strategic facilities, and deal with the aftermath of terrorist attacks. The legislation passed the Russian Duma [JURIST report] almost unanimously late last month and was approved by Russia's upper house, the Federation Council, on March 1. While al Qaeda terrorism is not a major problem in the country, Russia has been shaken by bombings and hostage-takings by supporters of Chechen independence, most recently including the 2004 Beslan siege (JURIST report) in which hundreds of children were killed when authorities stormed a school.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16261701

A prominent Russian opposition figure, Boris Nemtsov, says the Kremlin was behind the publication of private phone calls in which he insulted other opposition activists.

A news website close to the government, Life News, published tapes in which Mr Nemtsov seems to call opposition supporters "hamsters" and "scared penguins".

Mr Nemtsov alleges illegal phone-tapping. He says the publication was part-truth, part-fabrication....


"They are brazenly and unforgivably violating my constitutional right and the right of my interlocutors to private communications and telephone conversations," he said, accusing them of "criminal activities".

And then, there's this: http://nypost.com/2013/10/30/russia-used-goof-bag-gadgets-to-bug-g-20-delegates/

Crafty Russian operatives gave goodie bags to world powers at the G-20 summit with USB drives and phone chargers — but they were “Trojan Horses” designed to download info and send it back to the motherland.
The cloak-and-dagger spy game played out at last month’s conference in St. Petersburg, where Vladimir Putin and President Obama appeared to patch up their feud.
But little did Obama know that Putin’s henchmen were making sure every delegate at the G-20 walked out with equipment that could compromise state secrets.
The clever Boris-and-Natasha ploy was reported Tuesday by the major Italian newspapers La Stampa and Corriere della Sera as the US remains under fire for NSA spying on world leaders’ phone calls.

And Putin, coyly playing the "I don't know nuthin' 'bout surveilling people" game, is blatantly shopping a demonstrated untruth, as we saw quite recently:

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/25/the_sochi_olympics_putins_shiny_new_surveillance_state/

Sochi, in other words, is setting records the old-fashioned way: men with guns on the street. Generally, it’s the security you can’t see — facial recognition software, aerial drone surveillance, mobile phone interception, metadata — that forms the cutting edge of international event planning. That may be more intrusive than 60,000 armed guards, security checkpoints and sealed-off highways, but it will certainly be less visible.

And last but not least... we KNOW Putin was behind this: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26072281

He's just not credible, and Snowden has to know that.