Comment Re:This could be true (Score 2) 284
Really, it's quite impressive the knowledge you have of internal, top-secret NSA operations. How exactly do you come up with this information?
By using common sense and the belief that the NSA is run by rational people, not snarky assholes on Slashdot who think they know everything simply because they googled it, but in actuality have exactly dick in the way of critical thinking skills. Nowhere in military or intelligence doctrine will you find the "Put all your eggs in one basket" to be marked as the best idea. Our nuclear weapons are spread throughout the country. Our military bases are spread throughout as well. Our training facilities are kept separate from our active duty areas. The internet, originally designed to support these activities, was designed to be so decentralized it could withstand a nuclear strike. It does not take very much imagination at all to conclude that the NSA will have decentralized and compartmentalized intelligence assets. I'm really sorry if there isn't a wikipedia entry for you to read up on this, but amongst those who didn't grow up having content spoon fed to them, we had to use this thing called a "brain" to fill in the missing pieces.
That doesn't make his old information irrelevant. It just means that any new program which we
This article references a current claim by Apple. It is not a claim Apple made two years ago which is being investigated. Unless I'm mistaken Snowden stole classified documents, not a time machine. He cannot possibly have any knowledge of whether Apple is telling the truth, today, right now, at this moment. Again, your inability to engage in any kind of deductive reasoning has failed you.
How do you know what he stole? You've never seen it. Maybe it's files organized by folders with
Snowden has already released all of the documents he stole. He's said as much. There are multiple copies of the data he released available for anyone who wants it. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but what Snowden released was not organized in any meaningful capacity. It's just like the diplomatic cables on Wikileaks... a lot of data, but no useful organizational scheme. That's why it's taken most of 2013 for people to go through it and release new "revelations" and attribute the find to Snowden. All he's ever done is run to Russia, hide, send a bunch of copies of what he stole to a bunch of people, get asylum, and then take his 15 minutes of fame about 20 times over. That's it. He wasn't an NSA analyst. He didn't know what he was looking at really -- his level of understanding of the overall organization and its operations was casual, unspecialized, and of the sort of thing you'd overhear at the water cooler. Which is what you'd expect from a systems administrator -- not an analyst. He knew the general picture, but not the specifics. The documents he stole took months to piece together the specifics enough to support his claims. There was no organization.