Washington’s BlogIt’s been a dramatic day for whistleblowing news.
A month ago, Glenn Greenwald announced that he was going to publish his biggest story yet: the names of those the NSA has been spying on.
Earlier today, Greenwald tweeted that he would finally publish the story tonight at midnight.
8 hours later, he tweeted:
After 3 months working on our story, USG [the United States government] today suddenly began making new last-minute claims which we intend to investigate before publishing
Many responded that it’s a trap, and that the government is dishonestly and illegally censoring Greewald.
At the same time, Cryptome announced that all of the Snowden documents will be released in July … supposedly in order to avert a war.
As the Daily Register notes:
All the remaining Snowden documents will be released next month, according to whistle-blowing site Cryptome, which said in a tweet that the release of the info by unnamed third parties would be necessary to head off an unnamed “war”.
Cryptome said it would “aid and abet” the release of “57K to 1.7M” new documents that had been “withheld for national security-public debate [sic]“.
The site clarified that will not be publishing the documents itself.
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“July is when war begins unless headed off by Snowden full release of crippling intel. After war begins not a chance of release,” Cryptome tweeted on its official feed. “Warmongerers are on a rampage. So, yes, citizens holding Snowden docs will do the right thing,” it said.
“For more on Snowden docs release in July watch for Ellsberg, special guest and others at HOPE, July 18-20: http://www.hope.net/schedule.html,” it added.
Anyone who is smart would never give away their thunder, that is announce you are going to do something ahead of the act. You do it and use the element of surprise. So whenever I see someone announce they are going to do something in the future I say “Yeah right” and move on.
There is evidence of people doing that in the past and being suicided those you know are for real. They died for what they knew and were about to share.
Its BS as always, its war people !!!
It may be a shorter list if they just denote who the NSA doesn’t spy on.
jstp – One mode of conduct that makes me laugh: “Rules of War”… because all is fair in love and war.
We’ve been listening to Greenwald making threats about releasing Snowden’s files for several months. If he had the files, then he should have just released them without warning. What does he have to gain by waiting? Actually, he may have more to lose by waiting.
Greenwald even makes appearances to spout-off on HBO’s Bill Maher, who is another loyal suck-up follower of Obama. This entire matter was created to give us the illusion of hope for Justice. If the information that Greenwald or Snowden may have would be damning evidence, then both would have been assassinated before they even had the chance to blow their whistle. This is playing out like a TV soap opera or a dime novel; a moot distraction, at best.
There is nothing that Snowden nor anyone else has, which will stop WW3. Whistle blowers are like peaceful dissenters — they are either ridiculed, ignored, or permanently silenced.
Greenwald has to be in on this shit. Or, he’s incredibly stupid. Or, could the U.S. government has something on him. “July is when war begins unless headed off by Snowden full release of crippling intel.” Can we just see the documents already. Who are these people trying to score a fortune besides Greenwald?