A Canadian Parliament Secretary under pressure at a news conference covering the revelation that thousands of Canadian air travelers at an airport there had their electronic devices marked and tracked for days after visiting the airport referred to Glenn Greenwald as a porn-spy.
Calandra then dropped a proverbial bombshell on the former Guardian journalist who first broke the Snowden story last summer: “Why is furthering porn-spy Glenn Greenwald's agenda and lining his Brazilian bank account more important than maintaining the public broadcaster's journalistic integrity?”
The secretary's comment on the “Brazilian bank account” appeared to be a reference to Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, who put up $50 million into a new media venture he is setting up with Greenwald. However, what Calandra was referring to in his comment about Greenwald being a “porn spy” is less clear.
The only connection to porn in this ongoing saga seems to be connected to the NSA’s alleged gathering of online visits to pornography websites, aimed specifically at Muslims, whom the agency was seeking to discredit due to their “radicalizing” efforts.
The NSA document, dated Oct. 3, 2012, aims to exploit the “personal vulnerabilities” of its targets through their online tendencies, including “viewing sexually explicit material online” and “using sexually explicit persuasive language when communicating with inexperienced young girls.”
The revealed program information is here:
The NSA possesses embarrassing sexually explicit information about at least two of the targets by virtue of electronic surveillance of their online activity. The report states that some of the data was gleaned through FBI surveillance programs carried out under the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act. The document adds, “Information herein is based largely on Sunni extremist communications.” It further states that “the SIGINT information is from primary sources with direct access and is generally considered reliable.”
According to the document, the NSA believes that exploiting electronic surveillance to publicly reveal online sexual activities can make it harder for these “radicalizers” to maintain their credibility. “Focusing on access reveals potential vulnerabilities that could be even more effectively exploited when used in combination with vulnerabilities of character or credibility, or both, of the message in order to shape the perception of the messenger as well as that of his followers,” the document argues.
I googled porn spy, I don't suggest you do unless you have privacy, nothing there about the NSA or Greenwald.
Which makes me wonder? What was the parliamentarian trying to imply?
Are they going to start spreading what he has in his cookies regarding porn next?
Are they going to give us grotesque screen grabs proving Greenwald faps just like everyone else?
More importantly, is what the messenger does when they are not reporting have any bearing in what we are being informed about?
