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Re A Former NSA Deputy Director Weighs In On 'Snowden'
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:19:35 -0400
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From: "Libert, Tim" <tlibert () asc upenn edu> Date: September 18, 2016 at 12:03:30 PM EDT To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] A Former NSA Deputy Director Weighs In On 'Snowden' Cuts both ways: How the CIA Helped Make “Zero Dark Thirty” When Zero Dark Thirty premiered in 2012, the Hollywood film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden became a blockbuster hit. Behind the scenes, the CIA secretly worked with the filmmakers, and the movie portrayed the agency’s controversial “enhanced interrogation techniques” — widely described as torture — as a key to uncovering information that led to the finding and killing of bin Laden. But in Secrets, Politics and Torture, premiering this Tuesday, May 19 on PBS, FRONTLINE reveals the many challenges to that narrative, and the inside story of how it came to be. The documentary unspools the dueling versions of history laid out by the CIA, which maintains that its now officially-shuttered program was effective in combating terrorism, and the massive Senate torture report released in December 2014, which found that the program was brutal, mismanaged and — most importantly — didn’t work. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/watch-how-the-cia-helped-make-zero-dark-thirty/ -- Sent from a typographic error generator. From: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 5:07:51 PM To: ip Subject: [IP] A Former NSA Deputy Director Weighs In On 'Snowden' Begin forwarded message:From: "Charley Kline" <csk () mail com> Date: September 17, 2016 at 4:25:19 PM EDT To: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net> Cc: "'Lauren Weinstein'" <lauren () vortex com> Subject: A Former NSA Deputy Director Weighs In On 'Snowden' From NPR http://www.npr.org/2016/09/17/494356297/a-former-nsa-deputy-director-weighs-in-on-the-edward-snowden-movie Two very different narratives on the former National Security Agency contractor unfolded this week. Both proved that the debate over whether Edward Snowden is a traitor or a patriot is in no danger of running out of steam. ... Inglis says he and Snowden have never met, which is the first of many bones he has to pick with the film. In it, there's a scene where the NSA deputy director asks Snowden to go to Hawaii to lead an important project. The deputy director at the time, in real life, was Chris Inglis. "It's preposterous on its face. For many reasons," says Inglis. "That a deputy director would reach down to a contractor — who's performing an important but relatively low-level function — and ask them to take on a Jason Bourne-like activity? It simply exceeds all propriety."Archives | Modify Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now
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