http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/06/is-edward-snowden-agent-of-state-or.html
Hmm. Ole Wenzel at EPJ wakes up and smells the freshly-brewed Langley Java, now that dissent diva, Naomi Klein Wolf says it’s OK to be suspicious….
Well, we forgive him. The boy works hard.
Thus, yours truly again saves the credibility of free-marketers, much tarnished from ill-conceived enthusiasms caught by sticking too close to each other and not close enough to the facts.
‘Snowden told him to go to a specific location on the third floor of the hotel and ask loudly for directions to a restaurant. Greenwald assumed Snowden was lurking in the background, listening in.
They went to a room that, Greenwald recalled, contained a large fake alligator. Snowden made himself known. He had told Greenwald that “I would know it was him because he would be carrying a Rubik’s Cube”.’ The Guardian.
Were they all wearing beige-coloured trench coats, one wonders? It all sounds a bit cheesy. But no doubt this is tradecraft. Dead-drops, brush-pasts, men pausing at a specific point, removing their trilbies and wiping their brows with pink silk handkerchiefs. On which note…
SPY NO. 1: “DOES ANYONE KNOW THE WAY TO AMARILLO?”
SPY NO 2: “YES, IT IS RAINING TODAY IN TBLISI.”
SPY NO. 1: “YET THEY SAY IT NEVER RAINS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.”
SPY NO 2: “THE NEAREST FISH ‘N’ SHIP SHOP IS NORTH OF THE RIVER.”
So, Lila, you think this might be a CIA op? Interesting – and interesting, too wrt your own account of having been surveilled and allegedly stalked/harassed – both, of course, spook specialities.
As for Edward Snowden (with a name like that, he could be the protagonist of a romantic novel set in an English manor-house: ‘ “Oh, Edward, I can’t stop thinking about you!” she breathed, as the top button of her blouse came undone…’), the narrative seems a little too pat.
After all, I always thought that everyone knew that all communications were monitor-able and that the NSA and GCHQ (UK equivalent of the NSA) spy on UK and US citizens and share their intel in an agreed manner. Esp. post-Patriot Act(s). Echelon, anyone? ‘Prism’ sounds like ‘Rubicon’ sounds like ‘Tom Cruise’ sounds like ‘Bourne Identity’. Why not call their monitoring system, ‘The Fat Bastard Eats Again’? Now that would be decidedly un-PC but surely would be just a little more original?
Hey Suhayl,
Great to have you comment here.
Doesn’t it all sound like Casino Royal or Octopussy?
Mind you, I don’t know how accurate Snowden is or isn’t, but this kind of wall to wall coverage is so much a part of the propaganda story, that even with everyone else lined up for him among the activists (Kim Dotcom, LRC etc), left and right, I’ve got to vote Nay on this.
My gut was screaming aloud as soon as I heard it, but I couldn’t understand why he might have done it, until I put together the dates Scott Creighton had listed and Kokesh’s march, and the Tamil riots in April, and the way the US led Hindu was automatically endorsing the guy, as they endorse and constantly play up Assange, and then I knew that this is the voice of the globalist establishment (not the national security state – that’s a bit different) – but the globalists – that is, civil society + international capital + anonymous web/hactivism/leakers.
I might be wrong, but I don’t think I am.
Don’t forget Smith & Hackman in Enemy of the State.
Don’t know why the video clip disappeared for awhile, but it’s back (with revised post).