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> I don’t think there’s any question as to the quality of cia intelligence. If anything Snowden really proves us the scale of their gathering and capabilities.

Weren't Snowden's releases about the NSA, not the CIA?




Yes. There was a CIA tool leak later, by an unknown person (but they have a suspect [1]), but it appears to be unrelated to Snowden.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-id...


And it's totally unrelated to RMS, who only encourages NSA and FBI agents to follow Snowden's example:

    [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
    [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
    [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]


Many of the programs are shared across agencies so the revelations told s lot about the sigint capabilities of all of the agencies.




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