Did Snowden blow the whistle because of the US special relationship with Israel?
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/whistle-special-relationship
Here’s a shocking story we’ve missed that deserves to be up in lights. Intelligence reporter James Bamford had a piece on the New York Times op-ed page two days back relaying conversations with Edward Snowden in Russia in which the 31-year-old whistle-blower suggests that the U.S. special relationship with Israel was a central motivator for him in leaving the country so as to blow the cover on US surveillance of its citizens. There is even the suggestion here that Snowden was aware that secrets the U.S. shared with Israel were being used to sexually blackmail gay Palestinians to collaborate; you may recall that the sexual blackmail story broke last week in the Israeli and English press (and the Times described the sexual information as “tidbits,” diminishing its significance).
