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Snowden claimed in 2014 that the 2012 Internet shutdown in Syria was actually done by the NSA and not Assad. The totalitarian dictator apparently cared too much about the free flow of information to do such a thing.

https://time.com/3107684/snowden-nsa-syria-cybersecurity/

He didn't provide any proof for this and anyone who questioned Assad's dedication to a free and unfiltered Internet was apparently an NSA shill.

That was when the world should have learned that he had been turned by Russian intelligence.




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