AMID ALL THE FUROR ABOUT DOCUMENTS THAT WERE MADE PUBLIC BY EDWARD SNOWDEN, THERE’S BEEN VIRTUALLY NO DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT ALL THE SECRETS HE REVEALED WERE TRUE. LET’S SEE IF WE CAN RECTIFY THAT MISTAKE.

By Robert Davey

Everything starts with Alex Jimenez and Byron Fouty.

Jimenez, 25, and Fouty, 19, were casualties of the Iraq war whose capture was used by U.S. government spin doctors to illustrate their claim that a federal law regulating electronic surveillance put the United States at a disadvantage in the war on terror—a claim that turned out to be highly questionable at best. That claim points forward to statements that appeared in documents released by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who’s been accused of treason for... Read More