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In reply to the discussion: Report Indicates Snowden/Greenwald Lied About Key Claims [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I think the stuff in the OP is harsh in that I think that Snowden was too junior and too removed from actual decisionmaking, policymaking and the "do-ers" at the NSA in general to know whether the documents he read reflected actual regular policy, what happened in certain contingencies, etc.
In other words, I don't know if he necessarily "lied" (although I'm willing to see proof otherwise), I think he either grossly misinterpreted what he read in the documents he took, or otherwise didn't understand them. He didnt work for the NSA, he worked for a third party contractor. He had no idea what actual NSA policy was. There are all kinds of documents at large organizations. If you are not in the groups that the documents talk about, you have no idea whether the documents reflect actual policy, the procedures in them are used in special situations, etc.