Oh boy. The dump is really starting to come unhinged.
First up, we have this campfire of which the title cannot be posted here.
F you. F you. F youThen we have this campfire, of which the title can be posted here.
Big campfireSomeone should row over there and screen cap the first campfire.
Here is the second:
Star Member kpete (39,021 posts)
WaPo Misread Powerpoint- Story on Feds tapping directly into internet companies was wrong & rushed
Last edited Sat Jun 8, 2013, 10:10 PM USA/ET - Edit history (3)
The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism
Summary: A bombshell story published in the Washington Post this week alleged that the NSA had enlisted nine tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple, in a massive program of online spying. Now the story is unraveling, and the Post has quietly changed key details. What went wrong?
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So what went wrong with the Post?
The biggest problem was that the Post took a leaked PowerPoint presentation from a single anonymous source and leaped to conclusions without supporting evidence. McCullagh quotes one of his named (not anonymous) sources, former general counsel of the NSA Stewart Baker, as saying the slides look “flakyâ€:
"The PowerPoint is suffused with a kind of hype that makes it sound more like a marketing pitch than a briefing -- we don't know what its provenance is and we don't know the full context," Baker said. He added, referring to the Post's coverage: "It looks rushed and it looks wrong."
“Rushed†would indeed be the best way to describe why the Post story changed so dramatically in a 24-hour period. Normally, an investigative piece like this would be reported thoroughly before being published. Instead, it looks like the Post rushed to publish, perhaps fearing that the slide deck had been leaked to another publication that would beat them to the punch.
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Declan McCullagh of CNET examined the Washington Post story independently and concluded that the Post story was wrong.
Those reports are incorrect and appear to be based on a misreading of a leaked Powerpoint document, according to a former government official who is intimately familiar with this process of data acquisition and spoke today on condition of anonymity.
"It's not as described in the histrionics in the Washington Post or the Guardian," the person said. "None of it's true. It's a very formalized legal process that companies are obliged to do."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-to-tech-companies/
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And then a funny thing happened the next morning. If you followed the link to that story, you found a completely different story, nearly twice as long, with a slightly different headline:
much more INCLUDING WAPO's before and after versions.
http://www.zdnet.com/the-real-story-in-the-nsa-scandal-is-the-collapse-of-journalism-7000016570/
Denile is not just a river in Egypt.
Star Member Cali_Democrat (14,878 posts)
2. Mark Twain said it best:
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The WAPO knew what it was doing. Bombard Obama with as many fake scandals as possible.
These same assholes served as stenographers for Bush as they were cheerleading the Iraq war.
It's all lies by the evil Wash post!!!
Iliyah (2,449 posts)
40. So did the New York Times
cheer-leading for the Iraqi war and couldn't stop writing about those WMDs. Were they around when in 2006 when the shit hit the fan about the NSA and spying on Americans? Did they take into question about Bush's creditability?
The NY Times was a cheerleader for Bush? Who knew!!!!
a2liberal (1,010 posts)
34. +1000000
Last edited Sat Jun 8, 2013, 11:10 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
How dare you report the truth? comply with the party line or we'll take action against you
Has happened before, I very much believe that's what happened here
BenzoDia (581 posts)
8. The original reporting was way too sensational to be believable
Another dummie in denial
ProSense (98,848 posts)
19. Maybe everyone should run with the bullshit story, right?
Mole.
JaneyVee (4,074 posts)
17. Our media is a joke.
Yes it is. Just not for the reason you think.
Andy823 (4,727 posts)
42. Seems to be a pattern going on
Looks like the media keeps jumping on every BS thing can get their hands on, without really checking out the facts, and then goes on the attack trying to blame the president and his administration for some "scandal"! Then the right wing trolls come on and stir up the pot, and sadly many here jump on the right wing band wagon because they too do not want to hear any "facts", they are just to ready to help the trolls spread their BS! Hell there is even one thread talking about the "government" taking out Greenwald! It's just plain crazy. It's all about the right wing trying to get democrats divided to take the heat off them, and to try and keep democrats pissed off so they won't vote in 2014.
The sad thing is so many here want to believe the worst of our president instead of waiting to see what the actual "FACTS" really are. I am sure we will be hearing all kinds of "apologies", right?
Imagine how Bush felt dummie.
Well worth going over there and checking it out.
