Actually, with all the reverb from the microphones, a more accurate headline for this post would be “Here’s Edward Snowden-owden-den-en Speaking-eaking-king-ing at SXSW.” But I know a lot of you are interested in Snowden, and hopefully you’ll be able to muddle through this video until someone gets a workable transcript up online:
Reports from SXSW indicate that Snowden said he would absolutely do this all over again if he had the choice. And Sarah Gray, live-blogging at Salon, writes:
Snowden is also addressing our misallocation of intelligence, with its emphasis mass surveillance, explaining that, “If we hadn’t’ spend so much on mass surveillance, we might have caught [the Boston Bombers].”
I’m glad that Snowden has found himself a home in a open society, free of government controlled spies that take advantage of its’ citizens.
He only deserves the best, after all.
And, I’m sure all those allegations about hime stealing co-workers passwords to gather information are just poppycock nonsense. He would never do such a thing!
That’s funny about the Boston Bombers. Russian intelligence knew exactly what was up with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and repeatedly warned the FBI about him after they kicked him out of the country.
I wonder if they also knew about Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. Fuller until 2004. Samantha’s father being Graham Fuller, the senior CIA person who was the architect the Afghan Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen war against the Soviets.