[tor-talk] OT - Snowden - was Re: Heartbleed bug / Mainstream information

[mick]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 06:02:20 +0000
Артур Истомин <art.istom at yandex.ru> allegedly wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:19:52PM +0100, mick wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:48:04 -0400
> > "Christopher J. Walters" <cwal989 at comcast.net> allegedly wrote:
> > 
> > > On 4/14/2014 4:40 PM, mick wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:03:09 -0400
> > > > "Christopher J. Walters" <cwal989 at comcast.net> allegedly wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Or maybe Snowden really was just an attention seeker, who
> > > >> really knew nothing. That must be why the US sent a CIA kill
> > > >> squad after him - so he wouldn't spread "conspiracy theories"
> > > >> around.
> > > >
> > > > Do you have a reference (independent reporting) for that
> > > > assertion that you could share?
> > > >
> > > > Mick
> > > 
> > > What assertion?  Never mind.  This story is very old, and frankly
> > > I don't care whether you believe whatever assertion you are
> > > talking about.
> > 
> > You asserted that the "US sent a CIA kill squad" after Snowden. I
> > simply asked for an independent reference for that story.
> 
> I am independent reference. I can confirm that such behavior of
> Empires is as old as hills.
> 
> What references do you want for obvious and axiomatic things?

I'm sorry, but I am a little old fashioned. I do not take bald
statements such as these as fact without some form of verification.
And, with respect, some random correspondent on a mail list "confirming"
the assertion of some other random person on a mail list does not, in my
view, constitute such verification.

What /would/ constitute verification (for this or any other flat
assertion) would be some reference to independent journalistic
investigative reporting in a respected journal pointing to
on-the-record, source verified, commentary.

Best

Mick 

 

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