SOL:
I
haven't followed this Snowden scenario
closely and I don't
neccessarily agree with this, but it
is
an interesting
hypothesis. The NSA is devious enough
to
set up such a false flag
whistleblower,
not only to initiate fear in any others that may be
so inclined, but also to ID those
from
"Anonymous" and others that
are supposed
to be helping
Edward Snowden.
Another
question
to be asked. If Snowden is/was staying at the Russian
airport, how
is he legally
protected
from being arrested?
My
Creeping Concern that the NSA Leaker Edward Snowden is not who he Purports to
be…
By Naomi
Wolf
Global Research,
June 15, 2013
I hate to do this
but I feel obligated to share, as the story unfolds, my creeping concern that
the NSA leaker is not who he purports to be, and that the motivations involved
in the story may be more complex than they appear to be.
This is in no way
to detract from the great courage of Glenn Greenwald in reporting the story, and
the gutsiness of the Guardian in showcasing this kind of reporting, which is a
service to America that US media is not performing at all.
It is just to raise
some cautions as the story unfolds, and to raise some questions about how it is
unfolding, based on my experience with high-level political
messaging.
Some of Snowden’s
emphases seem to serve an intelligence/police state objective, rather than to
challenge them.
a) He is
super-organized, for a whistleblower, in terms of what candidates, the White
House, the State Dept. et al call ‘message discipline.’ He insisted on
publishing a power point in the newspapers that ran his initial revelations. I
gather that he arranged for a talented filmmaker to shoot the Greenwald
interview. These two steps – which are evidence of great media training, really
‘PR 101′ – are virtually never done (to my great distress) by other
whistleblowers, or by progressive activists involved in breaking news, or by
real courageous people who are under stress and getting the word out. They are
always done, though, by high-level political surrogates.
b) In the Greenwald
video interview, I was concerned about the way Snowden conveys his message. He
is not struggling for words, or thinking hard, as even bright, articulate
whistleblowers under stress will do. Rather he appears to be transmitting whole
paragraphs smoothly, without stumbling. To me this reads as someone who has
learned his talking points – again the way that political campaigns train
surrogates to transmit talking points.
c) He keeps saying
things like, “If you are a journalist and they think you are the transmission
point of this info, they will certainly kill you.” Or: “I fully expect to be
prosecuted under the Espionage Act.” He also keeps stressing what he will lose:
his $200,000 salary, his girlfriend, his house in Hawaii. These are the kinds of
messages that the police state would LIKE journalists to take away; a real
whistleblower also does not put out potential legal penalties as options, and
almost always by this point has a lawyer by his/her side who would PROHIBIT
him/her from saying, ‘come get me under the Espionage Act.” Finally in my
experience, real whistleblowers are completely focused on their act of public
service and trying to manage the jeopardy to themselves and their loved ones;
they don’t tend ever to call attention to their own self-sacrifice. That is why
they are heroes, among other reasons. But a police state would like us all to
think about everything we would lose by standing up against it.
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