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Monday, 17 June 2013

yet more corroboration

Posted on 06:55 by Unknown
Pardon me for continuing to just throw links at you guys, but I think every drop from the gradual drip of confirmation and support for Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald is important. Via Hamilton Nolan at Gawker, an interview with NSA whistleblower William Binney in USA Today:
the way it's set up now, it's a joke. I mean, it can't work the way it is because they have no real way of seeing into what these agencies are doing. They are totally dependent on the agencies briefing them on programs, telling them what they are doing. And as long as the agencies tell them, they will know. If they don't tell them, they don't know. And that's what's been going on here... 
Even take the FISA court, for example. The judges signed that order. I mean, I am sure they (the FBI) swore on an affidavit to the judge, "These are the reasons why," but the judge has no foundation to challenge anything that they present to him. What information does the judge have to make a decision against them? I mean, he has absolutely nothing. So that's really not an oversight.....
More importantly, Thomas Drake: "Remember, I saw what he saw." [emphasis mine]

"I saw what he saw." More corroboration, more support. Drip, drip, drip....
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