Re A Former NSA Deputy Director Weighs In On 'Snowden'

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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'
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> Cuts both ways:
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> How the CIA Helped Make “Zero Dark Thirty”
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> When Zero Dark Thirty premiered in 2012, the Hollywood film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden became a blockbuster 
> hit.
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> 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.
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> 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/
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> From: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 5:07:51 PM
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> Subject: [IP] A Former NSA Deputy Director Weighs In On 'Snowden'
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> > 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
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> > http://www.npr.org/2016/09/17/494356297/a-former-nsa-deputy-director-weighs-in-on-the-edward-snowden-movie
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> > 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.
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> > "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."
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