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Putin and Snowden Chat About Surveillance
All Hail the Snowden Pulitzer
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Poor Little Snowden! Always misunderstood and victimized by his own words and actions! The other day he showed up on Russian TV asking Vladimir Putin a carefully prepared question about surveillance. Whether he meant it to be a brave act or not, it came across as a publicity stunt orchestrated by the Russians. Snowden tried to follow-up with an editorial in the Guardian, but the damage was done and he was being mocked all over the internet. Now his advisers are trying to absorb the blame for his staged question, saying he "couldn't get in touch with his online advisers" that day, which makes Snowden sound naive and helpless on his own. Ironically, this just points to an obvious flaw in Snowden's mythos as an idealistic maverick whistleblower ~ he is actually the puppet of many - the Wikileaks crowd, Greenwald, Poitras, Guardian UK, the Libertarians, perhaps the Chinese, as well as Putin.
From the Daily Beast
NSA leaker Edward Snowden instantly regretted asking Russian President Vladimir Putin a softball question on live television about the Kremlin’s mass surveillance effort, two sources close to the leaker tell The Daily Beast.
“It certainly didn’t go as he would’ve hoped,” one of these sources said. “I don’t think there’s any shame in saying that he made an error in judgment.”
He basically viewed the question as his first foray into criticizing Russia. He was genuinely surprised that in reasonable corridors it was seen as the opposite
. . . I know this is hard to believe. I know if I was just watching from afar, I’d think, ‘Wow, they forced him [Snowden] to do this.' But it’s not true. He just f***ing did it.
~ Ben Wizner, ACLU Attorney and Snowden Adviser
I was surprised that people who witnessed me risk my life to expose the surveillance practices of my own country could not believe that I might also criticise the surveillance policies of Russia, a country to which I have sworn no allegiance, without ulterior motive. I regret that my question could be misinterpreted, and that it enabled many to ignore the substance of the question – and Putin's evasive response – in order to speculate, wildly and incorrectly, about my motives for asking it.
~ Edward Snowden in The Guardian UK
"Call-in Ed" #Snowden now regrets that tv question to his Kremlin handler. #NSA http://t.co/WIPHGwnPi2
— Julian Reichelt (@jreichelt) April 21, 2014Nincompoops like #Snowden & ilk expect folks to take #Putin @ his word on dom spying when he won't even admit to Russian troops in #Ukraine!
— Only4RM (@Only4RM) April 17, 2014.@benwizner invoked "Snowden-Putin truthers." Ironic given how his man Snowden thinks NSA can record our thoughts. Also pocket sensors.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 21, 2014@bobcesca_go the money line: "But it wasn’t easy in Russia, where the press is controlled so tightly by the regime." - LOLZ
— SheriffFruitfly (@sherifffruitfly) April 21, 2014Also, did Snowden's people just confirm that RT is censored by the Russian government?
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 21, 2014Is poor #Snowden just now figuring out he's #Putin's dupe? What a super spy. #russia http://t.co/wQdv5rNx0N
— товарищ Puppet (@wikihype) April 21, 2014.@WillMcAvoyACN Problem of #Snowden asking #Putin a question wasn't that it was a softball but that it made him part of Putin's propaganda
— Ivo Daalder (@IvoHDaalder) April 21, 2014Old Snowden Defense: brave and heroic defender of freedoms.
New Snowden Defense: too naive and ignorant of world affairs to be blamed.
— Lex (@LuthorCEO) April 21, 2014Boy, That Edward Snowden Really Screwed Up, Says Edward Snowden http://t.co/YFBDPkwG0K
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) April 21, 2014Of course, if I were one of Snowden's Russian 'advisors', I'd also be painting him as naïve, rather than complicit.
— Joey (@60th_Street) April 21, 2014.@Gus_802 @LuthorCEO Ha--Snowden supporters now calling him naïve/ uninformed hailed his wisdom & judgment when he betrayed his country.
— Kat 4 Obama (@Kat4Obama) April 21, 2014
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