Remember the oil corruption story?
Notice how sloppily the media is to mention links to Putin even though he is not listed?
Here is a way to demonstrate this is controlled release of information for political gain -
Go through the documents and establish a sequence of missing accounts. Records of account closures are in there.
Any account numbers missing from the release have been scrubbed by the leakers to protect their allies.
djsumdog ago
I really subscribe to the notion that Snowden still works for the US government. A software developer, who makes $200k a year, working from home in Hawaii, with VPN access to one of the most secure data centres in the world, suddenly decides one day that he has a moral compass. He takes all his classified data, drops it off with some news papers in South East Asia and spends the rest of his days lost in Russia (where apparently there are no shops that sell glasses, so he's forced to wear the same broken pair forever). His smokin hot women decides she wants to join him in Russia.
Meanwhile, Assange is in a virtual prison in the Embassy of Ecuador, Chelsea is in prison and Snowden's leaks consist of tons of bad powerpoint slides and heavily rededicated PDF files that provide us with little to no useful information on which hardware components are compromised (yet he still encourages using strong encryption).
Fuck everything about this narrative. There is a chilling effect in the US. People are being less vocal and talking less online post leaks. Unlike China with explicit yet easy to circumvent censorship, America looks free yet is totally propaganda controlled and the censorship is implicit.
djsumdog ago
Corbet Report does a great video that talks about just this. They tell us what's in the report, make vague links to other characters that may or may not be involved, and don't let us see the actual documents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uCs7ebHTI
It's like the Snowden leaks.