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Old June 26th, 2013 #61
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And why are the usual suspects the principal reporters writing for the mainstream media of so called news: Is it simply a popular left-liberal cause, is it simply a distraction from the wars, is it the growing police state posturing, is it meant to intimidate others from revelations of conscience, and/or what? Did you see this story anywhere else: "Massive American troop build-up in Israel: War with Iran on the horizon?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6bCOQ05814&feature=player_embedded#at=17? How about this for an interesting source, "Jewish News 1"
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Washington keeps getting worse for whistleblowers

By DAVID FREDDOSO | JUNE 23, 2013

With espionage charges now laid against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who revealed government collection of data on all Americans' phone calls, the Obama administration has initiated prosecutions of more than twice as many leakers as all previous presidential administrations combined.
Snowden has certainly broken the law, and with his subsequent revelations about U.S. spying on foreign officials, he has arguably ceded the moral high ground as well. But what about whistleblowers who have merely violated the unwritten bureaucratic code of silence? By prosecuting so many leaks, and by creating its so-called "Insider Threat Program" to combat even less serious leaks, is the Obama administration creating an especially hostile environment for innocent officials who step forward to point out wrongdoing and incompetence?
The Associated Press's sources within government seem to think so. AP President Gary Pruitt says they have clammed up, refusing even to provide background information or confirmation of basic facts reporters need, thanks to the Justice Department's recently revealed spying on AP reporters' phone activity. Mission accomplished.
In recent weeks, media coverage has been replete with stories about the hell that awaits officials who dare shed light in the dark corners of the federal bureaucracy. First was Greg Hicks, the former State Department deputy chief of mission in Libya. He enraged Secretary Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, when he spoke with a visiting member of Congress in the absence of his administration political minders. He was subsequently pulled from Libya and given an undesirable desk job. To rub it in a bit, within hours of Hicks' subsequent congressional testimony on the Benghazi attacks of last September, the Obama-linked Center for American Progress was given access to his anonymous detractors in government. It published a report accusing Hicks (among other things) of dressing unprofessionally.
The State Department earned further publicity last week when CBS News highlighted the plight of Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator for State's Inspector General. Fedenisn revealed that her office, under pressure, had whitewashed a report on how high-level officials in Clinton's department had covered up credible allegations of pedophilia, sexual assault, solicitation and rampant drug use by State Department employees and contractors, including one ambassador. As a reward for bringing the damning original report to light, Fedenisn had IG staff camped out in her front yard last week, interrogating her children in her absence and trying to bully her into an admission of wrongdoing.
CNN's Anderson Cooper covered another such story last week -- that of Jeffrey Black, a retired Air Marshal who has been suffering bureaucratic retaliation for nearly a decade. Black's participation in "Please Remove your Shoes," a harsh 2010 documentary on federal incompetence in aviation security, was immediately followed by a suspicious IRS audit that is now being investigated. (The audit ultimately showed that the government owed Black thousands of dollars, which it has refused to pay.)
When he was still serving in the Bush era, Black had already suffered for helping Congress identify significant gaps in airline security. He explains in the movie that the Department of Homeland Security began surveilling and harassing him. His mail was stolen, his cable wires were cut, and he came home on more than one occasion to find his door unlocked and ajar, with nothing taken. "It's pure intimidation," he says in the movie. "That's how the agency works. They threaten you. You've got a good job, you've got a secure job. You're making good money."
The results of such intimidation become clear both in the sudden silence of AP's sources and in the failure of anyone at IRS to blow the whistle publicly in that agency's ongoing scandal. Inspector General Russell George, who last month uncovered the tax agency's harassment of conservative non-profit groups, testified before Congress, incredibly, that not one person at IRS would tell him who had given orders to target Tea Party groups.
Acting IRS Director Steven Miller was asked by the Senate Finance Committee about his own efforts to identify the person responsible. He indicated at best a half-hearted attempt to figure it out, after which he simply gave up, much to the consternation of Senators Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo.
It turns out that the federal bureaucracy is like prison. Snitches get stitches, wrongdoers and their high-level abettors get paid leave and retirement benefits.
President Obama has not necessarily violated his fabled promises of transparency merely by prosecuting leaks that might threaten national security. But the unprecedented number of leak prosecutions, along with this body of evidence, hints that things are getting worse for whistleblowers. At the very least, this claimed but seldom-demonstrated transparency is not making life any easier for whistleblowers -- even the transparently innocent ones.

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Old June 26th, 2013 #62
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The involvement of Wikileaks makes me suspect it's round three or four in the dripdrip-till-they're-used-to-the-idea routine. The US and Britain started being snide with China a month ago - I wasn't sure why but knew it would fall into place eventually.
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Several Chinese airlines do direct flights to Maiquetia Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas (or wherever else he's going) from Hong Kong, Hong Kong International Airport.

I wonder what fanciful excuse they have invented for the Moscow sojourn. No doubt this appeals immensely to the Facebook/Anonymous types.
Snowden can fly 'anywhere he wants'

FUGITIVE US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is still in the transit zone at a Moscow airport but has the right to fly anywhere he desires, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.

"He has not violated Russian law, he has not crossed the border, he is in the transit zone of the airport and can fly anywhere that he wants," Lavrov was quoted as saying by the foreign ministry.

"The sooner this happens, the better".

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Old July 1st, 2013 #63
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McCain, Schumer on Snowden: Russia should pay a price


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(CNN) - Two high-profile senators on Sunday continued to admonish Russia for not handing over Edward Snowden, the leaker of National Security Agency secrets who's hiding in Russia as he seeks asylum in Ecuador.

Republican Sen. John McCain said Snowden's actions amounted to a "slap in the face to the United States" and called President Vladimir Putin "an old colonel KGB apparatchik" who "dreams of the restoration of the Russian Empire."

"I think we pushed the reset back down to about 1955. And so we have to deal realistically with an autocratic ruler of Russia who continues to repress people," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday."

"They thumb our nose at us no matter what the issue is, and we should deal realistically, not a return of the Cold War, but realistically with Vladimir Putin," he also said.

After news that Snowden left Hong Kong for Russia last week, President Barack Obama said Thursday he's "not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker."

A top Russian lawmaker said Sunday that Russia must not hand Snowden over to the United States.

"It's not a matter of Snowden's usefulness to Russia, it's a matter of principle," Alexei Pushkov - who heads the international affairs committee at the Duma, the lower house of parliament - said on Twitter. Meanwhile, Putin has said, "The sooner he selects his final destination point, the better both for us and for himself."

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday he's not sure what should be done to get Snowden back, but Russia should "pay a price" for "doing what they did."

"(Putin) ought to know he is going to pay a price here because he goes out of his way to stick his finger in the eye of America whether it is Iran, Syria and now this," he said on the same Fox program. "He has got lots of vulnerabilities."

If Ecuador grants asylum to Snowden, Schumer called for the U.S. to cut its trade and foreign aid to the South American country.

"We ought to be very clear with Ecuador that if they take Snowden, they are going to pay a price," he said.

Vice President Joe Biden asked Ecuador "to please reject" the request for asylum, according to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...d-pay-a-price/
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Old July 1st, 2013 #64
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"I think we pushed the reset back down to about 1955. And so we have to deal realistically with an autocratic ruler of Russia who continues to repress people," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday."
Coming from a bunch of assholes who built a spying and surveillance system that would make Stalin´s KGB green with envy, what a joke.
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"(Putin) ought to know he is going to pay a price here because he goes out of his way to stick his finger in the eye of America whether it is Iran, Syria and now this," he said on the same Fox program. "He has got lots of vulnerabilities."
As if they weren't trying exploit those "vulnerabilities" long before this incident.
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McCain, Schumer on Snowden: Russia should pay a price
Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday he's not sure what should be done to get Snowden back, but Russia should "pay a price" for "doing what they did."

"(Putin) ought to know he is going to pay a price here because he goes out of his way to stick his finger in the eye of America whether it is Iran, Syria and now this," he said on the same Fox program. "He has got lots of vulnerabilities."


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...d-pay-a-price/
Well If anyone ever had any doubts of who our politicians real interests are for, this should clear it up. It's all about Jews and what they want.
 
Old July 1st, 2013 #66
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Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says he remains free to publish more information about the U.S. government’s spying programs.

"I remain free and able to publish information that serves the public interest," the 26-year-old Snowden made the remarks in a letter to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, Reuters reported on Monday.
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Old July 2nd, 2013 #68
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Snowden makes multiple asylum requests

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ad161...#axzz2Xnwf9XPW

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Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency contractor, has applied for asylum in 19 more countries in an attempt to end his legal and diplomatic limbo in Moscow’s Sheremetevo airport.

WikiLeaks, the whistleblower organisation which has been advising Mr Snowden, said it had handed the asylum requests to a Russian official to give to the different embassies in Moscow.

The countries include China, Brazil, India, Russia and Venezuela, in addition to European nations including France, Germany, Italy and Norway. Mr Snowden had previously applied to Ecuador and Iceland.

The number of requests reflects the growing difficulties Mr Snowden faces in his attempts to evade prosecution in the US for leaking top secret documents about surveillance activities.

When he left Hong Kong 10 days ago, Mr Snowden appeared to be heading to Ecuador. But the country’s president Rafael Correa said on Monday that it was no longer considering his request. “It was a mistake on our part” to have helped him travel to Russia, Mr Correa said in an interview with the Guardian.

Earlier in the day, Russian officials acknowledged that Mr Snowden had applied for asylum in Moscow. Kim Shevchenko, an employee at the airport’s consular department, told the FT he had been visited on Sunday evening by Sarah Harrison, a lawyer for WikiLeaks who is travelling with Mr Snowden.

Mr Snowden’s Russian asylum application came as President Vladimir Putin appeared to warm to the idea of the fugitive staying in the country on condition that he halted his revelations on US surveillance operations.
“If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: he has to stop his work aimed at damaging our US partners, no matter how strange this sounds coming from me,” Mr Putin said on Monday.

But he added: “Snowden feels he is a fighter for human rights, he doesn’t appear to intend to give up such work. Therefore he should pick a country for himself and travel there. When this will happen, I don’t know.”

Mr Snowden arrived in Moscow on June 23 and seems increasingly desperate to leave. At the weekend, one avenue appeared to close when Mr Correa said the fugitive’s fate was in the hands of Russian authorities.
Russian and foreign news agencies have reported that Mr Snowden has tried and failed to seek asylum in more than a dozen countries.

In a statement released by WikiLeaks on Monday, Mr Snowden criticised the US for pressuring other governments to refuse his requests for asylum.
“These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me,” he said. “Although I am convicted of nothing, it [the US government] has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person.”

Speaking in Tanzania on Monday, President Barack Obama said the US and Russia did not have an extradition treaty, which meant Mr Snowden’s case was complicated.

But he said that as Mr Snowden does not have a valid passport, he hoped Russia would make decisions “based on the normal procedures regarding international travel and the normal interactions that law enforcement has”.

The Kremlin appears to be becoming frustrated that Mr Snowden’s continued presence in the airport transit area – with no US passport, no Russian visa and no country offering to take him in – is damaging relations with Washington.

But Mr Putin denied that Russia would extradite Mr Snowden. “Russia never extradites anyone anywhere and is not going to extradite anyone. No one ever extradites anyone to us, you probably know this well, too. At best, we have exchanged our foreign intelligence employees for those detained, arrested and sentenced by court in Russia,” he said.

The Russian leader has rarely passed up an opportunity to needle the US and it is likely, say analysts, that Russia granted Mr Snowden safe passage to fly from Hong Kong last week for that reason.

According to one rumour, Mr Snowden could fly out in the private jet of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, who was in Moscow this week for a gas summit. Mr Maduro last week said Venezuela was “prepared to protect this brave youth in a humanitarian way and so that humanity can learn the truth”.

Mr Putin said he knew “nothing about this” when asked at the press conference. He also went to great lengths to distance Moscow from Mr Snowden’s revelations about US surveillance on its own citizens and on foreign governments.

“It’s none of our business that allies are bugging each other. Let them do what they want,” Mr Putin said, referring to allegations that the US has bugged EU premises.

He noted that Mr Snowden had not published any information on US bugging of Russian targets – “though I cannot exclude such a possibility”, he added.
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Oliver Stone, John Cusack, Roseanne Barr and other celebrities say the NSA leaker should be given protection from prosecution in the United States.

A who's who of Hollywood’s progressive activists -- including director Oliver Stone and stars John Cusack and Danny Glover -- have joined a cadre of anti-war intellectuals petitioning Ecuador President Rafael Correa to grant political asylum to fugitive National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Other entertainment industry figures who are asking Correa to grant Snowden a refuge include Amber Heard, Roseanne Barr, Shia LaBeouf and musician Boots Riley. Peace activists Tom Hayden, Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson -- who is married to ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame -- and linguist Noam Chomsky also support Snowden's request.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-asylum-578123
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Obama is out to get him.
Cause he leaked the Secrets that America is spying us all.
They shall not act up like Cry Babies and instead get over it.
Obama deal with it.
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Well If anyone ever had any doubts of who our politicians real interests are for, this should clear it up. It's all about Jews and what they want.
Either you're for the Jewish aganda of world domination or a filthy anti-Semite subject to death or imprisonment.
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The Snowden affair may very well be a distraction from the main event of arming the anti-Syrian, Christian-beheading cannibals, but the halo has been removed from Obama, in Germany, where he is now seen as an agent of a totalitarian government guilty of spying on millions of Germans and stealing thier industrial/state secrets. If Snowden is remembered for nothing else but pulling back the curtain, to reveal the little yiddish-speaking man at the controls, he will have done the world a great service,
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Snowden makes multiple asylum requests

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ad161...#axzz2Xnwf9XPW

Mr Snowden’s Russian asylum application came as President Vladimir Putin appeared to warm to the idea of the fugitive staying in the country on condition that he halted his revelations on US surveillance operations.
“If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: he has to stop his work aimed at damaging our US partners, no matter how strange this sounds coming from me,” Mr Putin said on Monday.
Are the Russians really that weak, does the evil jewish colony really have that much to extort them with? Snowden provides them with the perfect way to get back for all the convicted oligarchs living in the west that are not being extradited.
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That mangina Neil Cavuto observed in schoolmarm tut-tut mode that Snowden is "no Ellsberg, the more we find out about him." No explication, just a slander (which is really a compliment).
 
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France and Portugal have refused to let the plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales cross their airspace fearing the fugitive American intelligence leaker Edward Snowden might be on board.

A Tuesday statement by Bolivian Defense Minister Ruben Saavedra called the rerouting a “hostile act” by the US government.
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“If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: he has to stop his work aimed at damaging our US partners, no matter how strange this sounds coming from me,” Mr Putin said on Monday.
Snowden should take that deal: he's made his mark, and a big one it is, too.

Stay in Russia and enjoy all those dolls.
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http://euobserver.com/justice/120724


US secretary of state John Kerry and Sikorski in Washington in June

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Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski noted on Twitter that: "An application came in which does not meet the formal requirements for granting asylum. But even if it did I wouldn't give a positive recommendation."
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Snowden should take that deal: he's made his mark, and a big one it is, too.

Stay in Russia and enjoy all those dolls.

Putin is doing the best he can facing the entire Western World of two faced hateful enemy aliens and whores.

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Are the Russians really that weak, does the evil jewish colony really have that much to extort them with? Snowden provides them with the perfect way to get back for all the convicted oligarchs living in the west that are not being extradited.
can't blame putin. if snowden were to accept asylum and continue with his actions, it would look as if he were doing it on behalf of or under the direction of putin and/or the russian government. with the inept, immature, self destructive and embarassing behavior of the u.s. government, putin and the government of russia doesn't need anyone's help. the u.s. will provide them with all the ammunition they could ever need or want.
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