NSA Bombshell Story Falling Apart Under Scrutiny; Key Facts Turning Out to Be Inaccurate

[bvar22]

85. There are other laughable speculations from the Internet Blog called The Daily Banter..

..in this pathetic attempt at spin and damage control.

Despite the 13 bullet points of speculation, interpretation, innuendo, and just plain Name Calling,
only one bullet point was wasted in a failed attempt to provide documentation for the hyped up claim in the article's title,
and here it is from Bullet Point #5:

"On Twitter, Greenwald defended his reporting by reiterating that the NSA said within the PRISM document that there has been “collection directly from the servers of these US service providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook…” But this [font size=3]could[/font] mean that the data was drawn from the servers, vetted and handed over to the NSA per Google’s stated process of legal vetting. And [font size=3]if[/font] the data was made available, [font size=3]it’s possible[/font] that the tech companies posted it on a server for the NSA analysts to download, just as you [font size=3]might[/font] download a file from work or a friend via Dropbox or an FTP server. Regardless, [font size=3]it seems[/font] as if Greenwald’s entire story hinges on a semantic interpretation of the PRISM language. And his mistake was to leap from “collection directly from servers” to “direct access.”

"Could", "if", "it might", It's possible", and "it seems" does NOT make a very strong case for anyone with a capacity for critical thought.

The bloggers speculations about what "could" be hardly justifies a title of :
"NSA Bombshell Story Falling Apart Under Scrutiny; Key Facts Turning Out to Be Inaccurate"

Seizing on the minute parsing of the phrase "direct access",
is FAR from a debunking,
or even a valid rebuttal of what we have learned so far.
This is a desperate attempt to Poison the Whole Well by grasping at anything that may possibly be a minor point of disagreement in the meaning of a phrase.,
like a Clinton parsing the meaning of the word "is".

I encourage everyone reading this thread to go to the linked article,
read the 13 Bullet Points and the blogger's summary,
and then decide for himself or herself whether this blogger's opinion merits a headline.
To me, this reeks of desperation.

---bvar22


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