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20 November 2014 Snowden Documents Disclosure Inquiry
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:42:47 -0800 Jon Rappoport here. If you have time and inclination, I'd like your response to a few questions re Snowden docs. This is on the record, for publication. Should all the documents Snowden took from NSA be dumped, as is, online, for all to see? (If no), How would you like to see all the documents exposed? In what form? By what process? (If yes), Comment on the central objections to an all-out dump: a) this could get people killed; b) necessary US national-security ops and programs would be compromised, damaged, rendered useless, and a dump would show other governments how to set up better Surveillance States of their own; c) an all-out dump would kill ongoing public interest in the story, whereas the drip method over time keeps the story alive. Jon
Date: November 17, 2014 Young: Publish this as you wish. Rappoport: Should all the documents Snowden took from NSA be dumped, as is, online, for all to see? The dump is continuing, it cannot be stopped, as Snowden said of the truth, the two are intimately linked. "Dump" is deliberately prejudicial to head off orderly full public disclosure. Snowden "dumped" various selections of the material to several outlets each of which had low to poor security capabilities. This he knew and attempted to correct, to little avail, as he ran out of time and patience, and was subjected to various extortionate conditions by the competing outlets, soon to grow with lawyers, funders, advisors, relatives, lovers, hangers-on, opportunists, greeders of many stripes. The documents have already been "dumped." Intercepted by a few outlets which elected themselves to capitalize the free public gift. Security by the outlets is quite poor, admittedly, so there is no assurance the documents have not been accessed by other parties, indeed, we estimate up to a thousand persons have had some degree of access in the course of a small percentage of the total published. Leakage is sure to have occurred due to poor security and diverse access. It is certain the authorities have managed to access the various stashes through vastly greater capabilities. This will continue no matter the decision to "dump." It has been a disorderly campaign throughout and is becoming be even more disorderly as disparate attempts are made to exploit the material and fend off attackers and competitors. First Look is fragmenting but so is the NY Times, The Guardian and others who have access to the golden goose of commercial benefits of the Snowden material. (If no), How would you like to see all the documents exposed? In what form? By what process? (If yes), Comment on the central objections to an all-out dump: a) this could get people killed; Nonsense, they are and will be killed by secretkeepers in secret, that is the function of official, journalist and lawyerly secretkeeping. b) necessary US national-security ops and programs would be compromised, damaged, rendered useless, and a dump would show other governments how to set up better Surveillance States of their own; Nonsense, see answer to a. c) an all-out dump would kill ongoing public interest in the story, whereas the drip method over time keeps the story alive. Absurd and spurious reasoning, condescending and contemputous of the public, clearly aimed at market control, power control, secretkeeping control. Corporatized, top down, officials, journalists and lawyers, priests and doctors, as privileged parties, incessantly justify their public manipulation by this kind of self-serving rationale. Totally opposed to genuine democracy in favor of representative democracy of the privileged. If Snowden knew ahead of time what was going to happen to his material it is certain he would have disclosed it in a publicly accessible depository, and that could still be the outcome if he reclaims his rights as a citizen rather than as a pawn of his handlers and manipulators inside and outside government. As he says, he still works for NSA and he has the capabilities to set up the technology for thoughtful public access which his current handlers do not have and seemingly do not wish to acquire, debilitated as they are by professional training, bias, ambition and privilege to prefer their interests over the public's.
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:22:36 -0800 Thanks, John. Very important answers to my questions.
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