Althouse: Edward Snowden keeps trying to get people to watch this video.

February 14, 2023

Edward Snowden keeps trying to get people to watch this video.

Almost six million people watched this. https://t.co/shyAKE8kTV
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 12, 2023

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23 comments:

Lewis Wetzel said...: What an accent! Does anyone talk like that any more? The 'r,' if it follows a vowel, is softened to almost nothing, unless it is a double 'r.'; 2/14/23, 6:08 AM
tim in vermont said...: So much work in those days to subvert a reporter. Nowadays you just plant the editor in chief at all of the prestige outlets, one who makes sure to hire craven reporters who are happy to act as scriveners for the CIA, the FBI, the DNC. These people hate Trump because he is outside of their back-scratch-ocracy.

"Propagandizing the American public, and the Congress, is not the CIA's job..."

Doesn't that sound quaint. Now we learn that the CIA's job is to find ways around Congress when committing acts of war against our allies, and, BTW, nuclear superpowers with 6,000 nukes.; 2/14/23, 6:11 AM
boatbuilder said...: "Six ways from Sunday," as Chuckie Schumer told us. He wasn't kidding.; 2/14/23, 6:33 AM
Leland said...: Where Snowden tried, Althouse succeeded.; 2/14/23, 6:56 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: If the CIA-FBI mob want to kill Kennedy - they will kill Kennedy.

Trump is lucky he is alive.

If the hack press tell you the crook Biden's are innocent- they are innocent.; 2/14/23, 7:01 AM
Gusty Winds said...: We all know this is true, and that the MSM is just a conduit for the lies the gov't wants people to believe.

Why highly credentialed liberals buy it is beyond me. They must want it this way. Strange personality trait.; 2/14/23, 7:26 AM
Tina Trent said...: Official propaganda has positive and negative outcomes. It's the intent behind it that doesn't get enough attention.

How many Vietnamese people did this man keep out of soul-killing re-education camps?

How many American soldiers did he kill?

How many did he save?

Nationalism is not a dirty concept.

The most dishonest statement he made is that this was not the CIA's job. Of course it was, and still is.; 2/14/23, 7:50 AM
Jamie said...: If the CIA-FBI mob want to kill Kennedy - they will kill Kennedy.

Trump is lucky he is alive.

I disagree. IF the letter agencies killed Kennedy, what they learned from that action was that it made him a martyr and a saint, despite his wandering genitalia and so forth. It doesn't matter whether they were involved or not; if they were not involved, the same lesson pertained.

Trump was in no danger of assassination from them; they have been working to discredit and undermine him since his election because that's a much more effective way to pull a political enemy's fangs.; 2/14/23, 8:01 AM
Achilles said...: Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
If the CIA-FBI mob want to kill Kennedy - they will kill Kennedy.

Trump is lucky he is alive.

Trump is alive because his supporters would crush the regime if they brazenly kill him.

They know they have to discredit him first.

The Regime's antics work on some people.; 2/14/23, 8:21 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Today's reporters are dependent upon the Regime to feed them. They wait eagerly by the phone. They'll tell us this story comes from Putin.; 2/14/23, 8:42 AM
Ray - SoCal said...: I heard Frank Snepp at a lecture in college. He started by stating he had to clear chi’s presentation with the cia.

His categorization of the us efforts in Vietnam are so similar to the dysfunction in Afghanistan.; 2/14/23, 9:45 AM
hombre said...: Surprise!; 2/14/23, 9:55 AM
Jupiter said...: When Eisenhower warned us about the MIC, he was talking about the guys who were taking over the country. JFK tried to stop them. So they went with Lyndon instead. Lyndon worked out very well for them.; 2/14/23, 10:08 AM
Jupiter said...: "How many Vietnamese people did this man keep out of soul-killing re-education camps?"

He wrote a book about it. Decent Interval.; 2/14/23, 10:14 AM
Robert Cook said...: "Trump is lucky he is alive."

HA! Trump was never in danger of being "taken out" because he never was a threat to the rich and powerful, who profited greatly under his presidency. He was a big bag of hot air, little more.; 2/14/23, 10:39 AM
Robert Cook said...: "Trump is alive because his supporters would crush the regime if they brazenly kill him."

Hahaha!; 2/14/23, 10:41 AM
Old and slow said...: It pains me a little to have to agree with Robert Cook's derisive response. He is dead right of course. All the delusional chest thumping is embarrassing. How about some small measure of honesty and humility, and dare I say it, intelligence.; 2/14/23, 12:10 PM
Biff said...: Lewis Wetzel said..."What an accent! Does anyone talk like that any more? The 'r,' if it follows a vowel, is softened to almost nothing, unless it is a double 'r.'"

I recognized the accent immediately: North Carolina, filtered through the Ivy League and/or a northern prep school.; 2/14/23, 12:57 PM
Biff said...: Jamie said..."I disagree. IF the letter agencies killed Kennedy, what they learned from that action was that it made him a martyr and a saint, despite his wandering genitalia and so forth. It doesn't matter whether they were involved or not; if they were not involved, the same lesson pertained."

Maybe, though I think a case could be made that a martyred and sainted President Kennedy would be more useful to the intelligence agencies and their propaganda efforts than a two-term President Kennedy with likely king-making post-Presidential influence.

I have no opinion about it one way or another, and I'm generally suspicious of conspiracy theories. I just can't rule this one out.

As an aside, I'll wager that culture is much more important than conspiracy in most things. Keep in mind that Ivy League history/lit majors are hugely over-represented in the senior levels of the intelligence agencies and many of our media organizations. There are a lot of cultural ties between friends, colleagues, and classmates. You don't need actual conspiracies to have phenomena that seem like conspiracies; you just need enough people who are aligned in their beliefs by means of common culture.

As another aside, when I attended a couple of the Ivies in the late 80s and early 90s, I occasionally witnessed some surprisingly virulent, anti-Catholic, lingering WASP sentiment along the lines of "They can't be trusted to run the country." Back then, I put such incidents in the same category as an elderly relative saying something from a different time. However, extrapolating back to the Kennedy era, I can't shake the feeling that some things that seem crazy today may not have been completely beyond the pale of elite behavior back then.

In other words, I have no idea what the CIA and other agencies did or didn't do, nor what they are doing or not doing today. I miss the days when I thought that I knew.; 2/14/23, 1:52 PM
wendybar said...: Wonder why???

“The White House has the New York Times, Washington Post, MSN and CNN fronting for them,” Hersh said. “The enemy is Fox News. The only reporter that called me from any TV station … was Tucker Carlson.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/seymour-hersh-speaks-hold-president-account/; 2/14/23, 2:08 PM
Tina Trent said...: Thanks, Jupiter. Looks like an amazing first-person account.; 2/14/23, 2:27 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: How's the weather in Moscow?; 2/14/23, 2:52 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: This guy's job would be so much easier now.; 2/15/23, 8:28 AM