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In reply to the discussion: Re: Attacks on Snowden, Greenwald. How the fuck do people like that sleep at night? [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)However, the spin that GG/Snowden attached to those documents is, in many cases, not credible.
They have also both contradicted their own stories at times.
I think it highly relevant when someone declares that they are revealing something heretofore unknown, when those things were known by anyone paying attention.
The GG/Snowden dog-and-pony show has always been more smoke-and-mirrors than actual fact. They often conflated what the NSA actually does with what it "could do", an obvious attempt to
mislead their audience into believing that the potential for wrongdoing was something that was in fact occurring.
Did people not know that the NSA was gathering and storing vast amounts of information? Those paying attention knew that long before they'd ever heard of Snowden.