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“The switches weren’t turned off, but there has been a real decrease in quality” of communications, said one United States official, who like others quoted spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence programs.

A couple of days ago news outlets were calling Seymour Hersh a conspiracy nut because his report contained information gained off anonymous sources in the intelligence community.

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Seymour Hersh is a conspiracy nut. He believes USSOCOM is run by Opus Dei. Opus Dei actually had to release a statement.

He is also one of the most important investigative journalists of the last 100 years. The two roles are not mutually exclusive.

“Many of them are members of Opus Dei,” Hersh continued. “They do see what they’re doing — and this is not an atypical attitude among some military — it’s a crusade, literally. They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They’re protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function.”

My understanding of that statement is that he meant that they were deeply religious and were members op Opus Dei, not that there's a secretive organization that's controlling USSOCOM.

I said "_may have_ changed communication methods". Whether or not they changed, it doesn't change the fact that Snowden disclosed monitoring of AlQueda's communications.

And if anyone was wondering, Seymour Hersh is the journalist who wrote the killing bin laden story. He has nothing to do with the article I linked to.

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