Posted on 08/14/2013 6:58:14 AM PDT by george76
Edward Snowden accused the National Security Agency of targeting reporters who wrote critically about the government after the 9/11 attacks and warned it was “unforgivably reckless” for journalists to use unencrypted email messages when discussing sensitive matters.
Snowden said in an interview with the New York Times Magazine published Tuesday that he came to trust Laura Poitras, the documentary filmmaker who, along with Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, helped report his disclosure of secret surveillance programs, because she herself had been targeted by the NSA.
“Laura and [Guardian reporter] Glenn [Greenwald] are among the few who reported fearlessly on controversial topics throughout this period, even in the face of withering personal criticism, and resulted in Laura specifically becoming targeted by the very programs involved in the recent disclosures,”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
A pretty extraordinary claim. Any extraordinary evidence to support it? Any evidence at all?
You want "evidence"? From THIS discredited, lying government OR media? REALLY?
Unfortunately you and I aren't about to receive "official evidence" of much of anything, are we?
Given the Tora Bora talk over the mission was bantered about over ten years ago by those fairly close to the "action," I will MUCH rather believe THEIR story over any source that you rely as "the truth" of the matter.
Have you ANY "evidence at all" that 0buma and his discredited puppetmeisters had indeed eliminated OBL? ANY what so ever?
The Easter Bunny? Tooth Fairy?
Sorry -- the Ministry of Propaganda and their "sources" simply have no cred at all. On ANY issue. Of ANY claim. I don't believe in Fairy Tales and the same old sham-memes regarding the entire "war on terror."
I was curious if you found something I hadn't seen. Apparently not.
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