This post is not allowed on reddit, removed, no reason. Also, part of planned series. It was composed over several months, so dates are jumbled.
visage of the vice age
Intro to ES | consvpda This article is old, but less corrupt than the larger wikdpedia item (the wikdped is a tool of the Left).
Outline of this survey
Different 'spins' on Snowden's role
1 Enemy of dominant US gov (DS at the time of leaks); condemned and threatened with execution
2 Hero of We the People, he revealed the Surveillance State, NSA (No Such Agency); revered and praised
3 A tool of the Deep State (DS, CIA operative) sent to discredit the NSA which had been retasked (by Gen M Flynn) to surveil the ongoing coup against the de jure gov of Donald Trump. I'm writing in late January 2019, so this narrative is not well established.
4 Principled Castaway from a background of losses, finds a place as talented computer geek, but with confused thinking, turns against his sources of success (CIA, NSA, etc.) to miraculously escape alive, reveals corruption to benefit the world, detriment the agencies, he still lives (Mar3.2019), but in a questionable limbo as enemy of his state, USA.
Elaborations on Spin
1 ES: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations 2013 | grdn
ES: Traitor, whistleblower or defector? 2013 | cbsn
"clearly," the debate about government surveillance overreach "was coming," and Snowden acted simply as a catalyst... "We in politics have to deal with perception, not just reality," he said. "And we need to do better in educating our public...
ES Explains Who Really Rules The USA 14 min
2 ★★★★ES' untold story 2014 | wird
a uniquely postmodern breed of whistle-blower... Knowledge of the agency’s tricks is one of the ways that Snowden has managed to stay free.
Snowden Confession: “Climate Change is a Hoax by the CIA” 2016 | rted
“I have documents showing that the CIA invented the whole thing,” claims ES. “Global Warming was invented to both scare people, and divert their attention from other human-made dangers like nuclear weapons.
3 ES was not a defector?, was he a sacrifice to serve the CIA?, but certainly is a genuine advocate for gov transparency, and opposed the NSA's original objective to surveil everyone.
ES Slams "Corrupt" Russian Government Amid Rumors He's a "Bargaining Chip" In Trump-Russia Summit Jul.2018 | 0hdg
ES, CIA asset? 2017 | plntX
Documents reveal feds' effort to discredit Snowden, reveal CIA ties 2016 | foxn
update Mar.11.2019
Dave reads, comments about CIA, Ed Snowd X22rpt
update Sep.10.2020 Resident: No, Duh. Surveillance is a never ending story because no one with power to stop it, will. US court rules NSA surveillance exposed by Edward Snowden was illegal 2.5 min | RT
President Trump To Pardon Ed Snowden and Julian Assange For Service to the Public? 5 min
★★★★
Snowden: NSA Operative 2014 | crptco note typo argues arduous, and see links, 'Related Articles' at end
... psyops Snowden with being physically “snowed-in”... ES is an inside agent working for the NSA-CIA... These NSA so called “leaks” by ES are of the same mindset as the Jew Assange (the Jewish attribution is a stretch), who like ES, sources his rise to ‘whistleblower’ status through computer skills he established under the screen name “Mendax,” meaning “the Liar,” verses ES’s screen name of “Verax,” meaning, “truth teller.” Screen names polar opposite in meaning, but identical in servitude. (see more about Assange in spinny notes)
John C Dvorak: What Happened to ES? 2013 | nwdmn
ES looks less and less like a whistleblower and more and more like a naïve stooge. I even wonder about the money in his legal defense fund. Where does it eventually go? Probably NOT to ES.
New Conspiracy Theorists: Snowden Truthers | nwsr
ES blew whistle (May.2013) on a Gen Mike Flynn-revamped NSA (DIA Jul.2012-Aug.2014) and Became America's Angriest General 2016 | politico
The suggestion is that Gen. Flynn flummoxed the NSA away from the CIA's objective of total surveillance into something more Constitutional. Next, CIA retaliated by sending ES on a suicide mission to discredit the de-corrupted NSA, in essence disowning it. ES was predisposed to the op, a perfectly cast, willing (but very wily) patsy. And Flynn's career was then torpedoed to mop-up.
4 ES: Hero or Traitor? 26.5 min | biogrphy
Snowden not a total loser, author of... Everything You Know about the Constitution is Wrong 2013
And makes estimated $200 grand per yr for speaking engagements, which he "attends" via video link.
spinny notes
Spinning a Narrative | erel
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=spin+(narrative)&atb=v81-4__&ia=web
https://www.westernjournal.com/media-outlets-attempt-spin-global-warming-narrative-migrant-caravan/
ES NRA supporter who loved domestic spying when it was Bush and hated it when it was Obama | plft
qresearch (archived) | 8chan
Spinning The Narrative (toward fake beliefs) American Naivety 11.8 min | rdLfnts
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