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June 26th, 2013 | #61 |
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The desired effect...
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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http://washingtonexaminer.com/washin...inion%20Digest 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. Last edited by -JC; June 26th, 2013 at 11:59 AM. |
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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". http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226670554646 |
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June 30th, 2013 03:57 PM ET 11 hours ago McCain, Schumer on Snowden: Russia should pay a price Posted by CNN's Ashley Killough (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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Snowden: I am free to publish information that serves public interest
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Edward Snowden: Hollywood Joins Asylum Petition
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. He´ll get the Martyr Status. |
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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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EU countries reject Snowden asylum
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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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This has been going on for a long time...
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