Blaming NSA Leaker Edward Snowden For The Paris Attacks

NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed a crown at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. on Thursday. Photo Willie Wilson

Scott Shackford, Reason: And Now It’s Time for the Ritual Blaming of Edward Snowden for Terrorism

Here’s why CIA Chief John Brennan is full of crap.

CIA Director John Brennan clearly wants Americans (and the rest of the world) to believe that because Edward Snowden revealed that the United States was collecting massive amounts of data about its own citizens, the reforms that we have demanded have somehow, in some fashion, contributed to Friday's terrorist attack in Paris. Via Politico:

"In the past several years, because of a number of unauthorized disclosures and a lot of handwringing over the government's role in the effort to try to uncover these terrorists, there have been some policy and legal and other actions that are taken that make our ability collectively, internationally to find these terrorists much more challenging," [Brennan] said. "I do hope that this is going to be a wake-up call particularly in areas of Europe where I think there has been a misrepresentation of what the intelligence security services are doing by some quarters that are designed to undercut those capabilities."

Update #1: ‘Edward Snowden taught terrorists how to avoid being caught’ – Boris Johnson (RT)
Update #2: Exploiting Emotions About Paris to Blame Snowden, Distract from Actual Culprits Who Empowered ISIS (Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept).

WNU Editor: The intelligence chiefs are still smarting over Edward Snowden's NSA expose.