Title: Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast Post by: 247crypto on May 31, 2014, 06:26:51 PM http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/27/b1/00/00/snowden-1.si.jpg
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. http://rt.com/usa/162576-nbc-snowden-september-attack/ Title: Re: Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast Post by: Charlie Prime on May 31, 2014, 07:17:06 PM Now we get to add False-Flag Cover-up to the Snowjob.
This operation just keeps getting better and better. Title: Re: Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast Post by: Chef Ramsay on May 31, 2014, 08:35:46 PM Not too hard to figure out that if you make that haystack as big as possible, you'll continue to have less success at stopping things from happening. But, in the name of self preservation and expansion, it only makes sense for the police staters to want to keep it this way. Of course, when they have all this data it's possible to be able to pull off their covert stuff that they do.
Title: Re: Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast Post by: arbitrage001 on June 01, 2014, 04:00:22 AM Should spend all these resources to fix the core issues rather than treating the symptom.
Title: Re: Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast Post by: Ron~Popeil on June 02, 2014, 05:33:10 AM Now we get to add False-Flag Cover-up to the Snowjob. This operation just keeps getting better and better. False flag? I don't trust the government period, but that was not a false flag operation. Title: Re: Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast Post by: taipo on June 02, 2014, 05:58:45 AM All those believing 9/11 was an inside job invalidate anyone that has inside knowledge and doesn't come to the same conclusions they have. So Snowden didn't come out saying the CIA was the progenitor of the attacks so no matter how credible his leaks are, hes is then automatically a CIA plant...
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance Title: Re: Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast Post by: negafen on June 02, 2014, 09:22:11 AM The media expect the censor will go unnoticed?
We live in the internet age, these mega media companies days are numbered. Title: Re: Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast Post by: Charlie Prime on June 02, 2014, 02:51:12 PM False flag? I don't trust the government period, but that was not a false flag operation. Snowden started as a CIA Limited-Hangout (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout) operation. He revealed nothing that had not already been revealed years ago by REAL whistleblowers who got ZERO media coverage. Now they are trying to use him to cover up the recent false flag operations. Go read how to identify a Limited Hangout: http://tarpley.net/2013/06/19/how-to-identify-a-cia-limited-hangout-operation/ (http://tarpley.net/2013/06/19/how-to-identify-a-cia-limited-hangout-operation) |