How HPSCI's Staffers Used Miscitations to Turn Edward Snowden into a Lying Flunkie https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/12/22/how-hpscis-staffers-turned-snowden-into-a-flunkie/ …
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1) HPSCI said Snowden admitted he was a "poor" student. He said he was "not a stellar student."
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2) HPSCI sources "absence of evidence" on GED to a report that only called Anne Arundel schools, not MD.
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(Remember: HPSCI says they didn't do an investigation bc of ongoing investigation. That prevented them from calling MD?)
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3) There is discrepancy fr Snowden's resume (tho elsewhere the HPSCI report gets dates flat wrong). Point to HPSCI, if they have right date
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But they cite the State of MD, which is -- who they'd actually have to call to check on GED.
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4) HPSCI cites a NYT profile of Snowden that *miscites* what he said in forum. Forum was linked. HPSCI can't click links, I guess?
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Actual quote, taken in context, is more ambiguous. But why look for context!
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5) There's now a footnote (was it there in September?) citing a Snowden "associate" (
@bartongellman, is that you??) giving state GED data.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
All of which is to say, there's a conflict, two points of which stem fr HPSCI's OWN miscitation. A call to MD would have resolved it. Nope!
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6) Nevertheless, HPSCI considers that conflict (partly of their making) proof he's a fabricator.
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The bigger point is, HPSCI didn't even check the secondary sources they were working off and introduced error in their own citation.
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