Sunday, June 23, 2013
Couldn't resist
Sudden news today: Ed Snowden has left Hong Kong on a Russian flight, perhaps headed ultimately for some other country. Maybe Iceland, maybe Cuba, maybe staying in Russia. Not clear where he is or where he will go.
Ever since this started, I've been itching to use the immortal line from Catch-22. Finally got the chance!
Ou sont les Neigedens d'antan?
Paranoid sidenote: Thinking in proper 'Hall of Mirrors' form, we have to ask why Snowden is still alive. If NSA truly didn't want his revelations to get out, he would have been suicided before he had a chance to say anything. Just some young dude killed in a car crash. Young dudes always drive recklessly. No story here.
Since he wasn't suicided yet, perhaps his 100% unrevealing "revelations" about programs that have been widely known and understood for 30 years serve as a useful distraction from something really new and outrageous in NSA's toolbox.
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