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06-27-2013, 06:55 AM
If This Is a New Cold War, Who's the Enemy Supposed to Be? (http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/26/if-this-is-a-new-cold-war-whos-the-enemy)
Jesse Walker (http://reason.com/people/jesse-walker/all)|Jun. 26, 2013 1:18 pm
It's disorienting to see Edward Snowden charged with espionage. Legal definitions aside, people generally conceive of spies as somebody's agents, extracting information for a firm or a foreign country. But if the NSA whistlebower was a spy, he was spying for the public. Not exactly your standard espionage plot.
That may be one reason so many people have started reheating their Cold War metaphors, a trend my colleague Nick Gillespie noted (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/26/cold-war-remixed-edward-snowden-moves-into-graham-greene-territory.html) in The Daily Beast this morning. If we can rewrite the Snowden story in those old Robert Ludlum terms, it's easier to organize the news into a familiar narrative.
More at http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/26/if-this-is-a-new-cold-war-whos-the-enemy
Jesse Walker (http://reason.com/people/jesse-walker/all)|Jun. 26, 2013 1:18 pm
It's disorienting to see Edward Snowden charged with espionage. Legal definitions aside, people generally conceive of spies as somebody's agents, extracting information for a firm or a foreign country. But if the NSA whistlebower was a spy, he was spying for the public. Not exactly your standard espionage plot.
That may be one reason so many people have started reheating their Cold War metaphors, a trend my colleague Nick Gillespie noted (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/26/cold-war-remixed-edward-snowden-moves-into-graham-greene-territory.html) in The Daily Beast this morning. If we can rewrite the Snowden story in those old Robert Ludlum terms, it's easier to organize the news into a familiar narrative.
More at http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/26/if-this-is-a-new-cold-war-whos-the-enemy