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"ISIS was one of the terrorist groups that learned from Snowden, and it is clear his actions played a role in the rise of ISIS"

Despite how seriously misleading this statement is I can't help but laugh. Been rolfmao way too much since the Snowden leaks. From the .gov puppets desperate to find a angle on the debate, to the FBI desperate to counter the tides of technological evolution.... im laughing. Will probably continue laughing even after their baton's hit my back because some citizens actually took these absurd statements from the CIA/NSA/FBI/WhiteHouse as something other than a joke.

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It's the usual "put everything on terrorists" argument, Snowden is now responsible of the rise of ISIS ! (and also of the world hunger ?) The last decade of war in the middle-east is just a coincidence apparently.

That is classic Michael J. Morell. I can't take anything he says seriously. Listening to Mr. Morell is like listening to some of the right wing republicans describe the administration as socialist. US public debate should be above this, nobody benefits from this nonsense.

Jesus, I promised myself I would stop upvoting any NYT or BBC (usually propaganda) stories, but that's just ridiculous.

It is a quote from a book sourced in the article, not a quote from the article itself.

The OP should have made it clear that the NYT was quoting a book by Morell. The entire quote is as follows:

“ISIS was one of the terrorist groups that learned from Snowden, and it is clear his actions played a role in the rise of ISIS,” Mr. Morell writes in “The Great War of Our Time,” offering no elaboration.

I think the fact that the NYT editorialised with the comment "offering no elaboration" changes it entirely.

"Haha no elaboration, what a zinger! That'll show those swarmy conservatives", said the well off Marin county progressive as he sipped his morning smoothie and read another New York times article.

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