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NYT Lies About Snowden To Peddle 'Evil-Leaker' Propaganda, Then Stealth-Edits When Caught
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden--about whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 exposed vast domestic and international spying operations run by the NSA and other organizations.
For starters, Crowley wrote that Snowden "handed them off to the website WikiLeaks for publication," which is a complete lie. Snowden in fact gave the documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald when he was with The Guardian, and the Washington Post - where they went through the editorial process.Second, Crowley wrote that a disclosure that the NSA was spying on former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone came from the Snowden archive - another total lie. Both of these lies could have been debunked with a 10 second look at Wikipedia. In reality, the Merkel findings were the result of a 2015 internal investigation in the Danish Defense Intelligence Service into the NSA's role in the partnership, and broken by Reuters.
Holy shit: this NYT news article by @michaelcrowley has 2 gigantic, glaring factual errors in the first 3 paragraphs:
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 14, 2023
1) Snowden didn't give the archive to WikiLeaks for publication, but rather to me and Laura Poitras.
2) The Merkel story didn't come from the Snowden archive: https://t.co/NV8Oj3l0ty pic.twitter.com/9beBloZQZN