Re:Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations
by throwaway2048 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:14AM
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Its also important to note Snowden wasn't the first NSA person to warn us about this, there were a handful in the 2000s before him.
That's both a good point and not so much. In the end, they didn't keep their mouths shut, Snowden spilled the beans and uncovered the large conspiracy. It's a good point with regard to "that would require a large conspiracy, and those don't work" not being a good argument against theories: there might be a large conspiracy that just hasn't failed yet.
And who knows how many more years or decades the large conspiracy would have worked just fine if Snowden hadn't leaked.