The Snowden Affair

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Kurt

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No serious-minded people are fooled about the veracity of the data downloaded by Snowden. The events that followed showed a government's behavior verging on desperation, trying to extradite him. Obama himself, realized he face planted when he proclaimed he wanted confront Xi and wasn't his usual self dealing with Putin. It was not possible or worthwhile to act like that on the world stage without their ramifications. The NSA thought they could trust the employees, who were seemingly well vetted, qualified and sound, after all, they were fellow patriotic Americans. Anyway, the employees had to work on real data. Otherwise, they would not be employed in the first place.

The recent reports about LOVINT misuse of NSA tools indicate a supervision of what NSA agents do. Snowden clearly collected information before defecting from the organization. He must have created a search and information harvesting pattern that would be atypical for someone just doing his NSA job. I have no doubt about the veracity of his personal surveillance experience as a contractor. That's the genuine part of his information, but nothing unexpected. I do consider the part he publishes about the wider working of the NSA, he was not directly involved with, to be mixed with misinformation. It's typical for intelligence protection to have a layer of misinformation to avoid loose lips sinking ships. The NSA has several thousand contractors who all eat, drink and have sex. That's hundreds of possible leaks for foreign services. Not having misinformation layers for the thousands of small parts(like the low level agant Snowden) of the SIGINT machinery would be most unprofessional behaviour.
The media reports about this case show a poorly informed public outrage at the infringement of "personal rights" without deeper insights in how this data is processed and what exactly is derived from this information.
 

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