Jimmy Carter saved America from the tyranny of macrobrews. No, really.
So Reality Winner, former NSA contractor, is in federal prison for leaking classified information — for five years and three months, the longest sentence of any whistleblower in history. She gave documents on how Russia had attempted to hack vendors of election machinery and software to The Intercept , which completely bungled basic security procedures (according to a recent New York Times piece from Ben Smith, the main fault lay with Matthew Cole and Richard Esposito ), leading to her capture within hours. Winner recently contracted COVID-19 in prison, and is reportedly suffering some lingering aftereffects. Glenn Greenwald has been furiously denying that he had anything at all to do with the Winner clusterfuck, and I recently got in an argument with him about it on Twitter. I read a New York story about Winner, which clearly implies that she was listening to the Intercepted podcast of March 22, 2017 , where Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill expressed skepticism about Russia actually b
From what i have read, viewed and heard about Prez Jimmy Carter, i am a big fan. I highly recommend the documentary The Man From Plains
ReplyDeleteOh yes, i forgot to add that this tidbit makes jimmy Carter even more cool than i thought. Now if he could bring some of that influence to south africa...i need some craft brewed ale!
ReplyDeleteWell, he had his moments, but his actions in Afghanistan were reprehensible.
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