{"id":24254,"date":"2017-06-26T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24254"},"modified":"2017-06-26T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:01:00","slug":"edward-snowden-asks-ron-paul-if-intelligence-reports-ever-swayed-his-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24254","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden Asks Ron Paul If Intelligence Reports Ever Swayed His Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-26\/edward-snowden-asks-ron-paul-if-intelligence-reports-ever-swayed-his-vote\">Edward Snowden Asks Ron Paul If Intelligence Reports Ever Swayed His Vote<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"messages-holder\"><\/section>\n<section class=\"node node-type-story node-full node-nid-598702 ads-injected\">\n<div class=\"sub-title-box\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>During an appearance on the Liberty Report last week, Dr. Ron Paul interviewed former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the rise of the Deep State and how intelligence agencies are threatening Americans\u2019 freedom. But in the closing moments of that interview, Snowden surprised Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pAVye51EUkM&amp;t=338s\">with an unexpected request:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"excl\">\u201cI was thinking I could ask you a question Dr. Paul, again about the intelligence stuff\u2026I think it\u2019d be interesting to people and I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve ever heard it from your perspective\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a former intelligence analyst and operative, Snowden wondered how well the intelligence community had performed in its mission to keep US policymakers informed on important world events, given that Paul had for more than two decades been a &#8220;consumer&#8221; of the intelligence community&#8217;s products.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"excl\"><strong>\u201cIn the intelligence community at the working level, not the policy level, everyone is taught that the work that they do is to inform policy makers\u2026to understand what the facts are so they can make the best decisions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"excl\">\u201cYou were in Congress for an extraordinary time\u2026and one question I\u2019ve always wondered is during all your time in Congress, how many times did the intelligence community provide some reports that they briefed to you\u2026and the material was so impactful\u2026<em><strong>so valuable that they\u2019d been breaking all these laws to get it\u2026how many times did it impact your vote?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul\u2019s response? <u><strong>Not once.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid326663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pAVye51EUkM\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paul says he was almost never provided with unadulterated intelligence reports, and <strong>on the one occasion when he attended a briefing with the intelligence agencies, the information more closely resembled propaganda than credible intelligence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Snowden Asks Ron Paul If Intelligence Reports Ever Swayed His Vote During an appearance on the Liberty Report last week, Dr. Ron Paul interviewed former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the rise of the Deep State and how intelligence agencies are threatening Americans\u2019 freedom. 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