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Sqrt

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Oct 26, 2017
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CNN)PSA for all the Area 51 stormers, chemtrail believers and climate change deniers: Edward Snowden has searched the depths of the US intelligence networks and can report the conspiracy theories are not true.
As a former employee of the CIA and contractor for the National Security Agency, Snowden had access to some of the nation's most closely held secrets.
And, like any curious mind with access to the CIA's version of Google might do, he went in search of answers to some of society's most pressing questions.

As it turns out, the US government is not aware of any intelligent, extraterrestrial life, he says. "For the record, as far as I could tell, aliens have never contacted Earth, or at least they haven't contacted US intelligence," Snowden writes in his recent memoir, "Permanent Record."

Also, the moon landing did indeed occur.

"In case you were wondering: Yes, man really did land on the moon. Climate change is real. Chemtrails are not a thing," he adds.


I also think that Trump would have declassified them by now.
 

8byte

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Oct 28, 2017
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I mean we should all know this for one reason and one reason alone: Humans are incapable of keeping secrets on a mass scale. The number of people that would need to be involved in order for this to be covered up would ensure there would be a leak.
 

Avitus

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Oct 25, 2017
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That information wouldn't be on any network. It would be completely isolated in a physical location and not connected to any outside networks in any way.
 

Finale Fireworker

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Oct 25, 2017
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That's because the CIA doesn't know anything. Only I know. My documentation of cryptids and aliens is so complete it would make the CIA cower. I have gone toe to toe with the goddamn Mothman. But Snowden will never get my files. The secret dies with me.
 

Figgles

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Oct 30, 2017
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While I don't think we have, I also don't think the info would just be sitting there on the server.
 

Deleted member 8468

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Oct 26, 2017
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But the Air Force is the branch that's been talking about them? It's not like they have one big ole 'government secrets' database with google installed.
 
Oct 17, 2018
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It doesn't seem like something that would just be accessible via the CIA server though. Almost certainly would have already leaked if that was the case.
 

TheGhost

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Oct 25, 2017
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If there was Space aliens Trump would have fear mongered it to the point where we would have N7 space Marines created to protect America and used it as a election talking point.
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Scuffed

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Oct 28, 2017
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Once upon a time I believed this crap but not anymore. Before you would see sightings on tv and explain away the shitty quality by saying that not everyone has a good camera handy. Well for a long time now literally everyone has amazing cameras on them all the time and we still haven't seen shit. I'm sure there is probably life somewhere else but they've never been here.
 

Slime

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Oct 25, 2017
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This just proves that Snowden's whole schtick was part of an elaborate conspiracy to position him as a credible whistleblower so that he could write this book and thus sow doubt on the existence of extraterrestrials
 

SpitztheGreat

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I mean, I tend to believe him even if I question his motives and allegiances, but I don't think he would have access to that kind of info. It would be akin to him having access to nuclear launch codes and other info of the highest magnitude. As far as I'm aware he was just a contractor, not some high level hacker in the highest positions of power.
 

Avitus

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Oct 25, 2017
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It doesn't seem like something that would just be accessible via the CIA server though. Almost certainly would have already leaked if that was the case.

All networks can be breached. Info like this would be kept in a physical secure location, offline, to make breaking in nonviable. The only way in would be to compromise the people that have access to such files, but they would be among the most scrutinized in the entire government.

Snowden knows this so this is just a PR stunt which casts him in a less flattering light IMO
 

finalflame

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Oct 27, 2017
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Even if true, no way that kind of information would be in a searchable database.
 

CallMeShaft

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Oct 25, 2017
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So he's also involved in the coverup?!? /s

The most likely scenario is the US has no real evidence of aliens. We've only ever been (meaning stepped foot on or had video equipment on) one planet, Mars, as well as the moon. So unless we found skeletal remains on a desolate Mars, our only chance of having any evidence of aliens is having a race of aliens who are highly evolved and with far more advanced technology then what we currently have. And if such highly advanced aliens made their way to earth, we would either all be dead or under their control.
 

Laser Man

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Oct 26, 2017
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People thinking such info would not be on the web, wrong! They are here, some are even on this site... maybe even... in this very thread!!!
 

fick

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Nov 24, 2018
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Yeah, believing that he was just leisurely browsing CIA servers is ridiculous. Aside from compartmentalization, I'm sure it would be flagged pretty quickly if certain things are accessed.

I don't buy it for a second. Not saying aliens are here