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Title: Snowden's Censored Comments About 9-11
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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.
But, chris, he avoided 9/11 for the same reason Ron Paul did. Irrefutable logic is meaningless to the 90 percentile, those who assume that when the media and the govt both savage your character and patriotism then you ain't supposed to say it even if it's true. Snowden stuck to facts that he has first hand knowledge and proof of. And that doesn't require American dummies to learn absolute laws of physics, and then be drilled until they understand that not even the govt can suspend those laws for the primary benefit of an unnamed "ally". When the network was showing the ads for the upcoming interview after each question the camera simply showed the same shot of Snowden sitting mute, and they made him appear shady and stupid days before the big event. Other interviews I've seen proved that he is an intelligent, articulate, principled patriot who never hesitated to give answers that made govt squirm, which is why it was time for a carefully edited Yehudiview. You kept beating Ron Paul up for the same thing-failing to fall on his sword for 9/11. The American people are the only people who still don't see the truth and nothing Paul could say would change that. Not without lecturing them for years on the cost of courage in the face of a corrupt police state first. If they don't want to hear that then they damn sure don't deserve his personal sacrifice and career suicide. And earning your respect is a poor trade for all it would have cost him. Hell, all Paul Wellstone did was stand firm in principled opposition against invading the country of the guy who did it according to Bush, and then didn't do it according to Bush. The more cred you have the higher the priority to kill you if you dare speak forbidden truth. And when the heroes of our time are recorded in the book of eternal truths American Patriot Edward Snowden will have a star on the walk of honor, particularly because there aren't 100 govt employees in lucrative positions who would sacrifice for us the way he did. In fact, the majority would keep silent about planned mass genocide. They wouldn't forfeit a govt janitor's pension and certainly not their freedom or their lives.
#24. To: HOUNDDAWG (#23)
It's telling how quick truthers are to attack Snowden.
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