34 minutes into the Snowden movie…
The NSA Guy makes it quite the point to show the Xkeyscore stuff to Edward.
"It's almost like I'm the wicked witch handing you the poisoned apple!"
Godlike digital abilities, right?
I seem to recall there were two apples in that fancy bible book…
What if Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Life'n'Death…
Nooooot the Tree of Knowledge…
Especially considering the rampant ignorance and how often people die and all that…
There's a twist.
Now I'm wondering…
This guy was in charge of the NSA and "retired" in 2014… Snowden was 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_B._Alexander
Intro summary:
Keith Brian Alexander (born December 2, 1951) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army[1] who served as director of the National Security Agency (DIRNSA), chief of the Central Security Service (CHCSS) and commander of the United States Cyber Command. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, U.S. Army from 2003 to 2005. He assumed the positions of Director, National Security Agency and Chief, Central Security Service on August 1, 2005[2] and the additional duties as Commander, United States Cyber Command on May 21, 2010.[3]
General Alexander announced his retirement on October 16, 2013.[4] His retirement date was March 28, 2014.[5] In May 2014, General Alexander founded IronNet Cybersecurity, a private-sector cybersecurity firm based in Fulton, Maryland.[6]
Cheney Administration Appointee:
Alexander became a three-star general. In 2005, Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, named him Director of the National Security Agency.
Leads to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Regional_Gateway
IntroSum:
The Real Time Regional Gateway (RT-RG) is a data processing and data mining system introduced in 2007 by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and deployed during the American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is able to store, fuse, search and analyze data from numerous sources, from intercepted communications to open source information. It was effective in providing information about Iraqi insurgents who had eluded less comprehensive techniques.
On top of that..
There's another Timeline here where Snowden was working with Adm. Rogers on a house cleaning project at the NSA…
Wouldn't work if it happened while Rogers was in charge.
Adm. Rogers would have needed to come in under the circumstances of "cleaning up leaks, vulnerabilities, problems, people-not-going-with-the-system, etc".
Optics.
Who was Snowden's actual handler?
Who was feeding him everything?
Or is that movie not actually/entirely about "Snowden"?
Also… the people who made this movie really want to play up Snowden as a righteous actor with morals and concerns and so on.
Because if Snowden was dark-gray hat…
Then who showed him Xkeyscore to get him involved with something "official" that "everyone knew about"?
Beyond that… was he singled out and manipulated?
Again, that would clear and set the stage for Adm. Rogers.
Could have been a sacrifice move.
To out the bad actors on the NSA, someone expendable had to fall on the sword.
Just thinkin' outside of boxes.
I went over it a few times but no, I didn't see him in the list of retired officers who supported Trump presented in that letter from Military Leaders.
Veddy Nice!
that would explain the disjointed videos… giving himself time to talk…