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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEdward Snowden Describes The Time The CIA Got A Swiss Banker Drunk And put him behind the wheel
"CIA operatives were attempting to recruit a Swiss banker to obtain secret banking information. Snowden said they achieved this by purposely getting the banker drunk and encouraging him to drive home in his car. When the banker was arrested for drunk driving, the undercover agent seeking to befriend him offered to help, and a bond was formed that led to successful recruitment.
"Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world," he says. "I realised that I was part of something that was doing far more harm than good."
Snowden says he thought about leaking government documents during his CIA stint in Geneva but refrained for fear that these secrets could endanger people, not machines and systems, and because he was hopeful about the election of Barack Obama."
Six years later, Snowden couldn't take it anymore."
http://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-describes-cia-tricks-2013-6
aquart
(69,014 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)where 800 insiders select the Chief Executive and the first free elections aren't scheduled until 2017, if China feels like it.
treestar
(82,383 posts)We should presume it has none, and no security agency.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)It is a Chinese protectorate.
treestar
(82,383 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)That will tell us a lot.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I'm betting his book will be released next year if not this one.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Not so much the other stuff.
treestar
(82,383 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)but what is interesting is he seemed to like the president from what I've read and maybe just became disillusioned? Damned if I know.
treestar
(82,383 posts)who found there was something he could actually do based on those emotions.
In other words, doubting the logical validity, accuracy, thoroughness, or honesty of Glenn Greenwald's claims about the Obama administration and the President personally marks you as an amoral automaton who is every bit as spasmodic in defense of the President as Greenwald increasingly shows himself to be in attacking him.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/08/1192256/-The-Final-Word-on-Glenn-Greenwald
There have been many Greenwald-based dust-ups here, and Greenwald has followers - this guy could be one of those. Like most, they claim to vote for Obama and be disappointed, fail to understand Congressional and Judiciary and even state power, demand fights or Obama is "weak" and "spineless" and find reasons to say this is not the change they voted for. It's starting to seem clear they are in that place to start with and have no intention of weighing both sides of any issue.
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)naive, ignorant, paranoid, or any other word that describes: Someone who isn't working with a full deck. Something seems "off" about the whole thing.
Just weird.
randome
(34,845 posts)Good God, spies doing spy stuff! The horror.
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treestar
(82,383 posts)it's funny, that oft-made DU demand is gone now that it might require similar surveillance!
I'm sure it's OK to collect the banksters emails! After all, they are guilty!!!!!!
6 years later.....what a tool....and he made good money while at it
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)to redeem itself, to self-correct using electoral process, and then when
Obama completely drops the ball, then he "can't take it anymore" .. and
you must grant, that this man is putting his entire life on the line, now
that he HAS come forward.
Your disrespectful comment (i.e. calling Snowden a "tool" is reprehensible,
unseemly, and unwarranted.
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)A systems analyst analyzing the CIA.