Is this a “The Last Starfighter”-esque recruitment tool?
This was my first thought. Your kids start working on these puzzles and the next thing you know Yale and MIT are trying to recruit them.
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#32> Which game will you play today?
I can't be the only one who was hoping for a thermonuclear war option :)
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree the 'whole of agency' funding thing doesn't really make sense. Look at all the budgets, they dip, slightly, around that time then continue their upward or stable trends, as least publicly. Maybe the NSA really did get a budget win in the years post 2013. Regardless, it was just too good to be true, tho, as a leak. Don't you think? I think the most likely scenario is, it was a "false flag" "own goal"/self-infl…
I really don't believe this at all. If it were true what motive would Snowden have to continue engaging publically well after the fact like he has?
Well obviously they would pick someone who had the right ego-bias / personality to act as this savior figure. Someone who wouldn't just do their duty but love it and go beyond it. The selection of the right patsy would be half the problem!
Even under the weaker assumption he wasn't like that to begin with, a savvy and ambitious person would ride such a wave of opportunity and "grow into the role" so to speak.
But yea, it's well designed, so it's supposed to be "hard to believe". The public is supposed to believe the simple fable that Snowden is a hero exposing privacy violations, and that it's about privacy. This is no denigration of the public really, it's just the sophistication of the storytellers! :)
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#34> Which game will you play today? I can't be the only one who was hoping for a thermonuclear war option :)
I was expecting a "go to Ukraine and gather Intel for us" option
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#35Is this a “The Last Starfighter”-esque recruitment tool?
No the “Ender’s Game” one where they think they are training but are actually killing bugs.
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#36Those look like fun activities. The list can be expanded and made a lot more fun:
* See if you can make your sibling confess to eating an extra scoop of ice-cream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_...
* Slip some substances in your parents drinks and see if they'll tell you the password to the bank account so you can buy whatever you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
* Jealous how this one kid at school is too influential? Let's see if you can ruin their reputation and maybe put them in the hospital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s ok. If you don’t want your kids to be spies in the future, just say some stuff online that the agencies will dislike but which is not illegal to say. Hopefully that will discourage them from recruiting your children in the future. After all, who would want to hire the sons and daughters of a person who raised them with views that run so obviously counter to the opinions of the agencies. Edward Snowden is a hum…
If you discovered that Snowden was actually the patsy for a limited hangout operation designed to protect the sector from declining regulatory and congressional will in a post-911 market...still a hero?
Dear citizen. Your children are hereby rejected for all future CIA job applications. With regards CIA x
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#38As a country, it is important that you have smart spies and the way to recruit is to identify potential candidates when they are young and nurture them. But as a parent, it will be your most important responsibility to prevent your kids from falling into this seemingly cool traps and become a spy which will not be a good life for your kids.
That’s ok. If you don’t want your kids to be spies in the future, just say some stuff online that the agencies will dislike but which is not illegal to say. Hopefully that will discourage them from recruiting your children in the future. After all, who would want to hire the sons and daughters of a person who raised them with views that run so obviously counter to the opinions of the agencies. Edward Snowden is a hum…
A world in which organizations like these are looked upon with the utmost contempt is the better one. When judging another nation's civilizational status (ie. is it a banana republic), in the future we should include how regulatorily contained these agencies are.
Checks note: Just about every western news outlet, privately and publicly funded, is quoting "NGOs" like Bellingcat, Freedom House, Transparency International or the "Atlantic Concil's Digital Forensics labs" as if they weren't the CIA cutouts that they are.
I think we're good!
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you discovered that Snowden was actually the patsy for a limited hangout operation designed to protect the sector from declining regulatory and congressional will in a post-911 market...still a hero?
Dear citizen. Your children are hereby rejected for all future CIA job applications. With regards CIA x
Hahah. That ship's sailed man
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#40As a country, it is important that you have smart spies and the way to recruit is to identify potential candidates when they are young and nurture them. But as a parent, it will be your most important responsibility to prevent your kids from falling into this seemingly cool traps and become a spy which will not be a good life for your kids.
What do you mean “it won’t be a good life for your kids?”
Intelligence can be an extremely rewarding career. I know several former intelligence officers who loved the work.