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Re:A CIA hacker’s revenge by rblatz on Monday June 06, 2022 @02:01PM (#31643648)
You can say only true things but still mislead by selectively releasing information. That's why it is essential to try and understand the motivations behind the leaked information.
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Re:A CIA hacker’s revenge by the_af on Monday June 06, 2022 @03:49PM (#31645209)
Yes. On the other hand, the NSA illegally spying on Americans is bad. You don't need to know the motivations, it's just bad. You cannot build a robust democracy on top of such a shaky foundation.

They can claim "Snowden was a KGB mole!" but if they hadn't been doing such nasty things, there wouldn't have been something so damaging for the mole (or a disgruntled ex employee, whatever) to disclose. There will always be dirty laundry to disclose of course -- nobody is 100% clean -- but this was major.

This is classic "shooting the messenger".

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