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Title: Snowden's Censored Comments About 9-11
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Hang the Bankers
URL Source: http://www.hangthebankers.com/the-s ... s-about-911-that-nbc-censored/
Published: Jun 1, 2014
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Post Date: 2014-06-01 10:08:19 by Turtle
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Only around a quarter of the recent NBC News interview with former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden made it to broadcast, but unaired excerpts now online show that the network neglected to air critical statements about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. When the four-hour sit-down between journalist Brian Williams and Snowden made it to air on Wednesday night, NBC condensed roughly four hours of conversation into a 60-minute time slot. During an analysis of the full interview afterwards, however, the network showed portions of the interview that didn’t make it into the primetime broadcast, including remarks from the former National Security Agency contractor in which he questioned the American intelligence community’s inability to stop the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In response to a question from Williams concerning a “non-traditional enemy,” Al-Qaeda, and how to prevent further attacks from that organization and others, Snowden suggested that United States had the proper intelligence ahead of 9/11 but failed to act. “You know, and this is a key question that the 9/11 Commission considered. And what they found, in the post-mortem, when they looked at all of the classified intelligence from all of the different intelligence agencies, they found that we had all of the information we needed as an intelligence community, as a classified sector, as the national defense of the United States to detect this plot,” Snowden said. “We actually had records of the phone calls from the United States and out. The CIA knew who these guys were. The problem was not that we weren’t collecting information, it wasn’t that we didn’t have enough dots, it wasn’t that we didn’t have a haystack, it was that we did not understand the haystack that we have.” “The problem with mass surveillance is that we’re piling more hay on a haystack we already don’t understand, and this is the haystack of the human lives of every American citizen in our country,”Snowden continued. “If these programs aren’t keeping us safe, and they’re making us miss connections — vital connections — on information we already have, if we’re taking resources away from traditional methods of investigation, from law enforcement operations that we know work, if we’re missing things like the Boston Marathon bombings where all of these mass surveillance systems, every domestic dragnet in the world didn’t reveal guys that the Russian intelligence service told us about by name, is that really the best way to protect our country? Or are we — are we trying to throw money at a magic solution that’s actually not just costing us our safety, but our rights and our way of life? Indeed, the director of the NSA during Snowden’s stint there, Gen. Keith Alexander, reportedly endorsed a method of intelligence gathering in which the agency would collect quite literally all the digital information it was capable of. “Rather than look for a single needle in the haystack, his approach was, ‘Let’s collect the whole haystack,’” one former senior US intelligence official recently told the Washington Post. “Collect it all, tag it, store it. . . .And whatever it is you want, you go searching for it.” In recent weeks, a leaked NSA document has affirmed that under the helm of Alexander, the agency was told it should do as much as possible with the information it gathers: “sniff it all, know it all, collect it all, process it all and exploit it all,” according to the slide. “They’re making themselves dysfunctional by collecting all of this data,” Bill Binney, a former NSA employee-turned-whistleblower himself, told the Daily Caller last year. Like Snowden, Binney has also argued that the NSA’s “collect it all” condition with regards to intelligence gathering is deeply flawed. “They’ve got so much collection capability but they can’t do everything. They’re probably getting something on the order of 80 percent of what goes up on the network. So they’re going into the telecoms who have recorded all of the material that has gone across the network. And the telecoms keep a record of it for I think about a year. They’re asking the telecoms for all the data so they can fill in the gaps. So between the two sources of what they’ve collected, they get the whole picture,” Binney said. Although NBC neglected to play Mr. Snowden’s remarks to Williams in which he questioned the efficiency of modern intelligence gathering under the guise of being a counterterrorism tool, it did air on television other remarks from the former contractor concerning the terrorist attacks. “It’s really disingenuous for the government to invoke and sort of scandalize our memories to sort of exploit the national trauma that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through to justify programs that have never been shown to keep us safe, but cost us liberties and freedoms that we don’t need to give up and our Constitution says we don’t need to give up,” he said in an excerpt broadcast on air. Poster Comment: Golly gee, there was no conspiracy! The children, of course, will stick their fingers in their ears, squinch their eyes shut and yell, "Is too! Is too!"
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#11. To: Turtle (#0)
There isn't one thing that Snowden said there that precludes that 9/11 was an Inside Job.
I've not found anything from Snowden which confirms it either. No evidence of who sold short the airline stocks. No evidence of contractors and thermite. No evidence of who wired Building 7. No evidence of who placed the phone calls warning certain people not to go into work that day....... To me, this interview just arouses more suspicion of Snowden.
#18. To: Buzzard (#14)
i am on the fence with Snowden...
i agree.
Best not to attack the messenger before there is any available evidence he has personally tainted the message. Missing information isn't such evidence. If 9/11 were an inside job, would that fact be stored in an analysis memo sitting on the NSA's computers? Unlikely. NSA jobs are usually out of the question for people who think like that. It's a club for conformists. Another way to look at this: Snowden's cache has the potential to shake up the status quo in ways the 9/11 Truth "movement" hasn't achieved yet. That Snowden's verifiable information hasn't caused more "change" yet demonstrates why other attempts to upset the populace with "truth" haven't worked. The average American citizen depends on the system as it is currently structured and fears what would happen if it began to crumble. Instead of saying "here's a conjecture that will really shiver your timbers," Snowden has government documents. How to interpret them is up to us. After years of hearing that the Nazis were coming from the Truther Movement, when asking "Cui Bono? answers Israel and PNAC's global agenda, I'm more interested in what Snowden has to offer. I just don't expect much real change from the "Stamp Act" material Snowden has already released: Americans are a timid lot after a century of social engineering and have so little moral fiber left that it wouldn't matter what came on the news next week.
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#14. To: christine (#11)
There isn't one thing that Snowden said there that precludes that 9/11 was an Inside Job.
Replies to Comment # 14. this interview just arouses more suspicion of Snowden.
#19. To: Buzzard (#14)
To me, this interview just arouses more suspicion "of" Snowden.
#20. To: Buzzard, christine, Rotara, Obnoxicated, HOUNDDAWG, Cynicom, Jethro Tull, Turtle (#14)
To me, this interview just arouses more suspicion of Snowden.
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