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In reply to the discussion: NSA Releases Email Snowden Sent Before Leaks [View all]Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)40. Here'$ what a real whi$tleblower think$ of thi$ $orted me$$!
Sibel Edmonds: "Checkbook Journalism & Leaking to the Highest Bidders"
Thats right. A whistleblower breaks the law to obtain 50,000 documents, he flees the country to escape prosecution and jail time, he hands over these 50,000 pages to a handful of individuals in return for their promise to present these documents to the public, six months pass, and the public gets 1% of these documents. But please, wait. This is not all. Far more interesting and troubling things happen meanwhile.
The main wanna-be reporter begins his relentless pursuit of high dollars in return for for what? In return for exclusive interviews where he would discuss some of this material. In return for a very lucrative book deal where he would expose a few extra pages of these 50,000-page documents. In return for a partnership with and extremely high salary from a Mega Corporation (think 1%) where he would hmmmm, well, it is not very clear: maybe in return for sitting on and never releasing some of these documents, or, releasing a few select pages?
Thats right. The culprit is able to use his role in the whistleblower case, and his de facto ownership of the whistleblowers 50,000-page evidence, to gain huge sums of money, fame, a mega corporate position, book and movie deals yet, making sure that the public would never see more than a few percent of the incriminating evidence.
Of course, secondhand checkbook profiteers tend to be very savvy, able to blow smoke, muddy water, and obscure their real deeds and true personhoods. This particular one is famous for spending years as an ambulance-chasing style attorney, where all he had to do was to write dozens of pages to make cases that were never cases, or make real cases appear as if they never were.
- See more at: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/12/08/checkbook-journalism-leaking-to-the-highest-bidders/#sthash.esuPxh6S.dpuf
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But you were the 1st to get here. Oh, did you get this month's issue yet? I know you're a HUGE fan.
Tarheel_Dem
May 2014
#9
There is sure t'be a pot o'gold at the far end, if we just follow along as the wee man told us t'do!
struggle4progress
May 2014
#11
The email exchange doesn't "help" Snowden. It makes him look like a bit of a liar.
MADem
May 2014
#24
If there are no emails from Snowden to his bosses about these overreaches, the question HAS to be
MADem
May 2014
#54
Data collection is the issue for me, NSA is a large part of the issue of data collection
Leme
May 2014
#36
Snowden has MADE the story about Snowden, by his actions, by his insistence that he
MADem
May 2014
#39
You're convoluting federal agencies. NSA doesn't have an army, they collect signals.
MADem
May 2014
#68
He's not "complaining" or "whistleblowing." He's asking specific questions about the contents of a
MADem
May 2014
#31
He's insisting there are more emails. He needs to produce them. The onus is on him.
MADem
May 2014
#59
Well since the NSA has spent months saying they didn't have ANY emails, and now it turns ou they do
riderinthestorm
May 2014
#10
Wouldn't a super secret double naught spy keep copies? I mean he stole a million documents. Really?
Tarheel_Dem
May 2014
#14
Worst Spy Ever, indeed! Ends up in Russia because ooops.. and tries to blame it on the US..
Cha
May 2014
#49
The Insider is reporting that the interview was held only feet away from Putin's office.
Tarheel_Dem
May 2014
#52
Really?! and, he "has no relations with Russia"?! Did you see that he said he couldn't
Cha
May 2014
#53
I'm catching up today. I didn't watch those smarmy bastards. Can't stand to look...
Tarheel_Dem
May 2014
#56
How did he manage to get a front-and-center video appearance on the "Ask the Pootster" show?
MADem
May 2014
#88
After the beat-down he gave Ted Shackley back in the nineties, I can't see the CIA cozying up to
MADem
May 2014
#84
Yesterday, many people were insisting it proved Snowden had raised concerns
struggle4progress
May 2014
#16
That view, of course, is reinforced by the fact that Snowden has said he sought his last BAH job
struggle4progress
May 2014
#19