The Mind Renewed's video: Tom Secker : Operation Snowden

MP3 & SHOW NOTES: http://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2015/764-int092 Remember what the world used to be like - before 2013 - when all our electronic communications were being scooped up by intelligence agencies and stored in massive data silos? Well now, thanks to Edward Snowden.... well, what? This week we welcome back to the programme writer, researcher and fim-maker Tom Secker of SpyCulture.com, InvestigatingTheTerror.com and the fascinating podcast ClandesTime, who joins us for an in-depth and entertaining discussion on his controversial, yet intriguing, take on the whole Edward Snowden phenomenon. Is Snowden everything he seems to be? Were his NSA "revelations" really as significant as has almost universally been claimed? Or are there reasons to suspect that this might have been all officially sanctioned: an elaborate limited hangout for the purposes of normalisation and control? Source: http://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2015/764-int092 Interview Notes: http://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2015/22-interviewnotes/765-int092n Disclaimer: The views expressed by Tom Secker in this interview are his responsibility alone; they do not necessarily reflect those of The Mind Renewed. Video background image: "Snowden Effect" (https://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/12237217973/) by DonkeyHotey on Flickr (CC BY 2.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/]); cropped, resized, aspect ratio altered, text and image superimposed Podcast music: Antony Raijekov's 'Jazz U' http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antony_Raijekov/Jazz_U/, (CC BY-NC 2.5) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/bg/ http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMindRenewedDotCom