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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald Lashes Back At Critics Who Call Snowden A Russian Propagandist [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)But the fact that I can access those sources makes me more critical of the American news sources. One of the reasons I stopped subscribing to my hometown newspaper was that I realized that it was simply publishing slightly edited versions of wire stories. And of course, that was back when the Iraq War was the issue. I felt my newspaper had lied to me and then under-reported the truth when it came out.
By the way, I like Pacifica and Thom Hartmann as sources of information in addition to foreign news sources. Due to health problems, I have not been able to read as many foreign newspapers as I used to.
We will have to agree to disagree. Time will tell which of us is right about Snowden. I think Snowden is far shrewder than people give him credit for. I also think that he is not smitten with the Russians. I think maybe they are more smitten with him than he with them.
The question to Putin was direct. Snowden knew the answer before he asked it. So die Putin. Putin tried to avoid lying by using weasel words like saying that Russia doesn't have as strong a program as the US and then adding that is because Russia doesn't have the technology we have. That's a joke. Even without technology, East Germany was able to control and terrorize its people. Russia did not throw away its surveillance tools when it became and oligarchy rather than a communist state. So, I think Putin just used words that will permit him to deny he said that Russia does not spy.