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The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell<\/a><\/h3>\n

In scrubbed piece about Edward Snowden, the Bezos Post offers a preview of how history will be re-written<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A Monday story<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0entitled \u201cPutin grants citizenship to Edward Snowden, who exposed U.S. surveillance\u2019\u201d began:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship on Monday to Edward Snowden, a former security consultant who leaked information about top-secret U.S. surveillance programs and is still wanted by Washington on espionage charges.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story added:<\/p>\n

Snowden\u2019s disclosures,\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0first in The Washington Post and the Guardian, were arguably the biggest security breach in U.S. history. The information revealed top-secret NSA surveillance as part of a program known as PRISM and the extraction of a wide range of digital information.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Snowden is America\u2019s most famous revealer-of-secrets, and the way he\u2019s talked about has evolved to an extreme degree in less than a decade, showing how quickly a story about security overreach can be flipped into an argument for more vigilance. The press, which once worked with Snowden in its proper role as a bulwark against government excess, is effectively an arm of the state now, as is shown again in this absurd episode.<\/p>\n

This article began as an aggressive rewrite of history and the\u00a0Post\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>own views, but underwent numerous alterations after it attracted criticism online yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell In scrubbed piece about Edward Snowden, the Bezos Post offers a preview of how history will be re-written A Monday story\u00a0in the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0entitled \u201cPutin grants citizenship to Edward Snowden, who exposed U.S. surveillance\u2019\u201d began: Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship on Monday to Edward Snowden, a former security consultant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[120,249,3733,512,14545,12061,822,827,857],"class_list":["post-63618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-edward-snowden","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-media","tag-narrative-control","tag-the-washington-post","tag-un","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63619,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63618\/revisions\/63619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}