Edward Snowden jabs WikiLeaks for not ‘curating’ info releases
Source: RawStory
DAVID FERGUSON
28 JUL 2016 AT 17:32 ET
Government surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden rapped WikiLeaks on Thursday for its careless handling of information and willingness to compromise peoples privacy.
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The former contractor for the National Security Agency who has fled to Russia for fear of prosecution by the U.S. government for exposing its illegal surveillance practices was likely referring to the last two document dumps from WikiLeaks, which have targeted the Democratic National Committee.
On Wednesday night, WikiLeaks released a cache of audio files that Russian hackers lifted from DNC servers. The recordings largely consist of voicemail messages to a person named Andrew. They include routine calls from donors and some Hillary backers angry about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), but even RedState.org was having trouble getting worked up about the files.
However, Wikileaks made no effort to protect the private phone numbers and names of the callers, just as they declined to redact the names, social security numbers, credit card information and other vulnerable personal data from its first round of hacks.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/edward-snowden-slams-wikileaks-for-not-curating-info-releases/
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)Assange has lost it, glad Snowden pointed it out.
emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)Assange too motivated by revenge. Whatever judgement he might have had flew out the window, Trumped by his desire to help Putin and damage Clinton.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Putin doesn't even like RT.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Putin owns RT. It's state media.
Anyone with their own show on Russian state media is compromised. Period.
JoFerret
(10,704 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)Who do you think is behind RT?
Tarc
(10,476 posts)You may wish to reconsider taking part in these sorts of discussions if you have not learned who the major players are.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)These contacts began when, according to The Guardian, Assange made batches of the State Department cables available to Israel Shamir, a Russian-born Israeli journalist who was involved with WikiLeaks. After Shamir took the cables to Moscow, he traveled to Belarus. There, he met aides to the dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who was then campaigning in a sham election. (Shamir, a controversial figure within WikiLeaks, has evolved into a vociferous Holocaust denier, obsessed with Jewish power.) Not long after Shamir arrived, according to accounts published by the Index on Censorship and the American online magazine Tablet, local news outlets started reporting that the official media was preparing to publish secret documents about the Belarusian opposition.
On December 19, 2010, Lukashenko declared himself reelected with 80 percent of the vote. His nearest opponent, the respected dissident Andrei Sannikov, carted off to jail, where he has reportedly been tortured. After the election, Shamir wrote a glowing account of Lukashenkos government in CounterPunch, denouncing the opposition as the pro-Western Gucci crowd. He also boasted that WikiLeaks had exposed American agents in Belarus, according to an account in the New Statesman.
The boasts were ugly but not idle. The next month, a state-run newspaper published what it claimed were excerpts from cables provided by Shamir, which supposedly identified prominent dissidents, including Sannikov, as paid American agents. James Ball, a former WikiLeaks employee who now works for The Guardian, has written that when he and others raised questions about Shamirs actions, we were told in no uncertain terms that Assange would not condone criticism of his friend.
The Belarusian affair coincided with a deepening of Assanges connections to Putins government. Without much public commentary, Assange has acquired something like Russian government media sponsorship. In April 2012, he launched a half-hour political TV showeventually named The Julian Assange Showon the Kremlin-funded and -controlled RT television network and website. His first guest was the normally furtive Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. At a moment when Assanges bright light seemed to be fading, the Russians gave him his own outlet on a network whose primary mission is to advance Putins political line. (Greenwald has defended Assanges association with RT, arguing that working for the Russian network is no different from writing for major U.S. outlets such as The Washington Post, NBC, and The Wall Street Journal, all of them supposedly corrupted by their right-wing corporate ownership.) Assanges connections to Putins regime would appear to have something to do with the next chapter in the NSA controversyhow and why Edward Snowden came to seek asylum in Russia.
https://newrepublic.com/article/116253/edward-snowden-glenn-greenwald-julian-assange-what-they-believe
P.S. Greenwald is also a Putin sycophant.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Yes he is...And a very dishonest "journalist".
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)MelSC
(256 posts)Nt
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Russia, why should I believe anything he says. Assange worked with Snowden also, no, not believeable.