One of my main criticism of Glenn Greenwald and his handling of the Edward Snowden information was the fact that he was slowly trickling it out a piece at a time.
They did this, so they say, to maximize the impact of the information and to not overwhelm the audience with too much at once. And so they did. Little by little, drop new pieces here and there slowly revealing that the NSA is listening to all, much like the Total Information Awareness program that was created then quickly dashed after the Eye of Providence logo was just a little too obvious for even the casual of observers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform...areness_Office
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_...tion_Awareness
It just so happens that this slow trickle of information was a boon for the Guardian, the paper which Greenwald was working for at the time, as it resulted in many hits for each new bread crumb that the paper produced.
Snowden and Greenwald were flying high for a time. Some loved them and some hated them, but many were paying attention to them and that is the important part. Whether it is positive or negative energy, it is energy; the worst thing you can do to a person is nothing them.
If you nothing a person, they receive nothing from you. This is why there are awareness campaigns. The people dying of some disease dont matter if people are not aware. So people sell ribbons so that people can wear them proudly and bring attention to the suffering, not actually solve the problem mind you as the selling of ribbons eventually becomes a business you must maintain(just look at Susan B Komen foundation. How much more awareness of breast cancer do you need?)
But the insidious part of Greenwalds strategy is now apparent years later after all the fuss has died down. The NSA still exists; Section 702, which is the main tool they use to spy on everybody still exists; FISA courts still exist. There are secrets laws with secrets judges who make secret rulings and now this is all in the open and acknowledged.
What once would have been the subject of ridicule, ala a Will smith/ Gene Hackman movie, is now "Well of course that is the case, DUH!"
Nothing has really changed in regards to the Snowden material except it is now in the public and commonly accepted as part of the status quo. Normalization is something, isnt it? Well, not nothing for Greenwald who now is co-owner of the Intercept, his own media outlet(which actually runs good stories I will admit).
They did this slow trickle of information under the guise of "not jeopardizing national security". They want to carefully scan the information and make sure they wouldnt expose people or program that are "needed", and as I mentioned earlier they were afraid, mainly for their bottom line, that some information would get lost if they opened up the flood gates of information.
And here were are now. Did you notice that there was another dump of JFK documents on Dec 15th? I did. I posted, and it seems that nobody cares about them anymore.
One of the most powerful tools in the world is we the people. What makes James Corbett so awesome is his promotion of crowd sourcing intelligence. Working together to parse the information that is available to us all. That is what is so powerful about Q.
In the war of Ideas
Questions are the tactic
Truth is the strategy.
Q questions are indeed intriguing but for the most part they seem, at least to me, to be retracing things I thought most on this site would already know. Did we really need Q to point out that the CIA launders drug money or that the Clintons, if not many politicians, are corrupt and morally bankrupt? But I guess I shouldnt ever take what I think I know for granted so I will grant that my criticism have probably been too harsh.
But what you need for this is all the information you can get. I prefer the fire hose. Once we have everything we can start to sort through it. If it is trickled out, like with the JFK documents, they just get an initial surge of recognition but then the later releases get little notice.
This is why I was so critical of POTUS for giving the CIA more time. He should have demanded all of them released when the law mandated. Now, it just gets slowly trickled out to little or no notice. Dec 15th was also the day FCC made the big NN decision, coincidence? Maybe there is something very important in the most recent JFK releases, but unfortunately most people have moved on from that topic just like they did with the NSA stuff.
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/2017-release
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