Ever since Edward Snowden’s arrival in Moscow, the whistleblower has quite literally vanished. The explanation for Snowden’s ‘dematerialization’ is rather simple: the leaker never existed in the first place. American NSA created the character of ‘Edward Snowden’ to distract the global audience from the real problem behind his persona – the vast espionage operation the US has been conducting for years. Given that George Lucas instructed the NSA on how to create a simulacrum, Snowden might well be a hologram.
If one starts thinking about Snowden’s story in retrospect, it actually becomes all too obvious. Ezra Klein of the Washington Post suggests that from the very beginning, Mr Snowden’s life seemed to follow the classic movie scenario of the ‘American-dream-gone-bad’. A high-school dropout, he became a lone hacker who turned out to be so bright and talented that he finally became an employee of a giant contractor to the CIA. He was a successful young man with a beautiful model girlfriend who, in turn, was a pole-dancing acrobat. The two lived in a cosy house in Hawaii and should have been together ‘until death did them part’.
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