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Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies have reportedly decrypted files of former U.S. National Security Agency contractor and leaker Edward Snowden, and have identified British and U.S. secret agents.
MI6, the U.K.'s secret intelligence service, has withdrawn agents from overseas operations in hostile countries, according to a report in the Sunday Times of London, citing U.K. government officials and Western intelligence agencies.
Well how would you know that the information is in the wild? If you know that it is you're not going to be posting on CD.
Let's be honest if it were not for Snowden it's unlikely that Rand Paul would have sunsetted the provisions of the PATRIOT act. What better way to scare the unwashed into returning those provisions or equivalents than by discrediting the person who brought them to light, and add in a scare that our operatives in hostile locations are in danger because of the boy wonder...? It might work so well that the FedGov brings in permanent and more extensive surveillance than was previously allowed.
It's not like US intelligence hasn't leaked information to unaligned governments before for political gain. Nor is it unheard of for intelligence agencies to lie to the press about ongoing operations.
All I'm saying is that you have a guy who was a glorified clerk on one side who stated he destroyed information that was sensitive (or he wasn't and the NSA lied about his actual role too), and on the other you have organizations who's entire jobs are to convince people that they are something that they are not.
Which one you believe is up to you, because no one is going to give you the truth, not Russia, not China, not MI6 and certainly not the CIA or NSA.
Sounds to me like buck passing. We know that the Chinese stole a bunch of personal information so the odds are high they stole this and the government is now trying to deflect blame.
Seriously, someone makes off with this kind of info and the government does nothing then?
Go back through your current events. The US, UK and Germany have had their systems compromised.
The US alone has had all Fed workers, anyone that got a security clearance and US taxpayers exposed by cyber attacks.
Blaming Snowden is nothing more than a deflection of of their ineptness to keep their data secure.
Assange and Snowden exposed what these "benevolent" countries are doing behind closed doors.
They will be scapegoats for every mistake these countries make and for every pieces of data that becomes public.
Blame Snowden. Yet ignore the massive data breach of the USG which includes anyone that had a security clearance.
Awfully convenient that Snowden is blamed. He came out with this 3 years ago. The USG just announced their data breach.
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