Unsurprising that HPSCI's report is rifled with obvious falsehoods. The only surprise is how accidentally exonerating it is. 1/x
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A quote from a Russian guy who just this week claimed NATO assassinated Russia's Ambassador. Not kidding:http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/745348/russian-ambassador-ankara-turkey-nato-secret-service-putin-Frants-Klintsevich …
Moreover, Klintsevich states clearly in the audio (which NPR omits from English translation) that he's only speculating ("Ya dumayu sto...")
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This is the standard of evidence the worst claims they level are based on, after three years and millions of dollars. But it goes on.
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Claim: I took a trip to trip to the PRC while in Japan. Never happened -- not even transit. And USG knows this, because of passport control.
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Claim: I went to a hacker conference, met Chinese hackers, then told people at NSA how great China is (seriously?). False and insane.
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Moreover, I never went to any hacker con during my time in government, IIRC. Think my first was HOPE, speaking alongside Ellsberg-- in 2014!
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I could go on forever. It is an endless parade of falsity so unbelievable it comes across as parody. Yet unintentionally exonerating:
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They document me going, again and again -- over years, despite punishments -- to superiors to report complaints of waste, fraud, and abuse.
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They characterize many of the best things I ever did -- standing up for co-workers, reporting XSS vulns in TS/SCI systems -- as wrongs.
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Not one page mentions this journalism won the Pulitzer Prize for Public service, reformed our laws, and changed even the President's mind.
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Yet they argue at length I should have gone to NSA's Inspector General. That he would end these abuses and protect whistleblowers.
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But George Ellard, the NSA Inspector General, was just fired for retaliating against a whistleblower just like me.http://www.pogo.org/blog/2016/12/intelligence-community-landmark.html …
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John Crane, who worked for DOD's IG, claims they intentionally destroyed exculpatory evidence about
@Thomas_Drake1.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon-punished-nsa-whistleblowers … -
Bottom line: this report's core claims are made without evidence, and are often contrary to both common sense and the public record.
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Was I a pain in the ass to work with? Perhaps; many technologists are. But this report establishes no worse.
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Final note: HPSCI's report admits I purged and abandoned hard drives rather than risk bringing them through Russia. Glad it's settled.
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Never let facts get in the way of a modus operandihttps://theintercept.com/2016/08/08/dems-tactic-of-accusing-adversaries-of-kremlin-ties-and-russia-sympathies-has-long-history-in-us/ …
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@Snowden SNOWDEN, YOU DO NOT SPEAK RUSSIAN! EVEN PUTIN MOCKED YOU FOR THAT -
you don't have to speak Russian to be able to translate the words "I think that"
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You don't have to speak Russian to realise Klintsevitch, a Kremlin bigwig, recently outed Snowden as working for Russia
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someone needs a hellfire buttplug.
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