Showing posts with label Edward Snowden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward Snowden. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2015

No, Let's Not!

June 19, 2015 Edward Snowden , Hillary Clinton 0 Comments
Huff Post: Pardon Edward Snowden 

By Bill Blum, Jun. 17, 2015, Huffington Post

Hillary Clinton needs support from the progressive left. She may not need it to win the Democratic nomination for president, but she needs it to revive her uninspiring candidacy, buttress her sagging poll numbers, and, above all, prevail in the general election.

Clinton's campaign kickoff rally Saturday at New York's Roosevelt Island was designed in large part to secure such endorsement. In a carefully orchestrated speech delivered before an estimated 5,500 flag-waving admirers, she promised to sponsor a bucket list of dearly held liberal policy initiatives, including universal prekindergarten, paid family leave, equal pay for women, college affordability and tax incentives for corporations that offer employee profit-sharing benefits.

She also announced she would push for a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court's disastrous Citizens United decision, and that she would work to establish universal, automatic voter registration and early voting throughout the country.


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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Staying cutting edge requires growing economy

January 18, 2015 Aaron Gibson , Andy Muller-Maguhn 0 Comments
The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America For Future Battle

Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Muller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt, and Michael Sontheimer, Jan. 17, 2015, Der Spiegel

An intern's tasks might also include remotely destroying the functionality of hard drives. Ultimately, the goal of the internship program was "developing an attacker's mindset."

The internship listing is eight years old, but the attacker's mindset has since become a kind of doctrine for the NSA's data spies. And the intelligence service isn't just trying to achieve mass surveillance of Internet communication, either. The digital spies of the Five Eyes alliance -- comprised of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- want more.

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Monday, January 12, 2015

The left thinks Assange and Snowden are "whistleblowers"

January 12, 2015 Books , Edward Snowden 0 Comments
Australian Cyberthriller 'Amnesia' Echoes Julian Assange Story

NPR, Jan. 10, 2015

Around the world, security monitors flash with this message: "The corporation is under our control. The Angel declares you free."

Carey won the Booker Prize twice for his novels Oscar and Lucinda and the True History of the Kelly Gang. He tells NPR's Scott Simon about how WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inspired Amnesia and how his characters navigate a world where anything can be hacked.

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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Snowden only changed way gov't keeps secrets

October 11, 2014 Edward Snowden , Rodger Friedman 0 Comments
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Friday, September 26, 2014

So no state should EVER have secrets?

September 26, 2014 ABC News , Edward Snowden 0 Comments
Snowden Honored With 'Alternative Nobel'

By Karl Ritter, Sept. 24, 2014, Abcnews.com

Edward Snowden was among the winners Wednesday of a Swedish human rights award, sometimes referred to as the "alternative Nobel," for his disclosures of top secret surveillance programs.

The decision to honor the former National Security Agency contractor with the Right Livelihood Award appeared to cause a diplomatic headache for Sweden's Foreign Ministry, which withdrew the prize jury's permission to use its media room for the announcement.

Snowden split the honorary portion of the award with Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, which has published a series of articles on government surveillance based on documents leaked by Snowden.

The 1.5 million kronor ($210,000) cash portion of the award was shared by Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir, Basil Fernando of the Asian Human Rights Commission and U.S. environmentalist Bill McKibben.

Created in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Award honors efforts that founder Jacob von Uexkull felt were being ignored by the Nobel Prizes.

Foundation director Ole von Uexkull — the award creator's nephew — said all winners have been invited to the Dec. 1 award ceremony in Stockholm, though he added it's unclear whether Snowden can attend.

"We will start discussions with the Swedish government and his lawyers in due course to discuss the potential arrangements for his participation," von Uexkull told The Associated Press.

Snowden, who has reportedly also been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, remains exiled in Russia since leaking top secret NSA documents to journalists last year. He has been charged under the U.S. Espionage Act and could face up to 30 years in prison.

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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Just two Bush hating lefties

July 20, 2014 Edward Snowden , Glenn Greenwald 0 Comments
Snowden Mouthpiece Greenwald Shills For Islamist Terror Targets  

Glenn Greenwald speaks to reporters at his hotel 
in Hong Kong on June 10, 2013.AP.
Source:  www.news.investors.com
By Investors Business Daily, Jul. 15, 2014, News.investors.com

War On Terror: It's now clear that ex-NSA contractor Ed Snowden and his journalist sidekick Glenn Greenwald have an agenda beyond exposing spying abuses. They're really aiding and abetting the Islamist enemy.

By releasing the names of several Muslim terrorist targets under surveillance by the NSA and FBI in a new expose — "Under Surveillance: Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On" — Snowden and his mouthpiece Greenwald have tipped off the enemy and jeopardized major counterterror investigations.

They make it seem as if the five American Muslim leaders they found listed in NSA and FBI surveillance records were victims of anti-Muslim prejudice, while glossing over the raft of counterterror evidence against them. In fact, the government has court-approved cause to spy on them.

One of the FBI's terrorist targets — a subject of a FISA court warrant — is the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington, a group Greenwald describes as a harmless "civil-rights organization," though the FBI has called it a "Hamas front" and the Justice Department has implicated it in a plot to raise millions for Palestinian terrorists.

A federal judge OK'd warrants to read CAIR chief Nihad Awad's email accounts. The FBI showed Awad may be engaged in "certain criminal activity on behalf of a foreign power." No wonder the agency cut off ties to CAIR and its Palestinian leader.

Greenwald has pocketed thousands of dollars speaking at CAIR fundraising banquets.


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Monday, May 26, 2014

Greenwald's Finale: Naming Victims of Surveillance --Snowden no hero, but NSA is HUGE scandal

May 26, 2014 Edward Snowden , Glenn Greenwald 0 Comments
By Toby Harnden, May 26, 2014, Realclearpolitics.com

The man who helped bring about the most significant leak in American intelligence history is to reveal names of US citizens targeted by their own government in what he promises will be the “biggest” revelation from nearly 2m classified files.

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who received the trove of documents from Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, told The Sunday Times that Snowden’s legacy would be “shaped in large part” by this “finishing piece” still to come.

His plan to publish names will further unnerve an American intelligence establishment already reeling from 11 months of revelations about US government surveillance activities.

Greenwald, who is promoting his book No Place To Hide and is trailed by a documentary crew wherever he goes, was speaking in a boutique hotel near Harvard, where he was to appear with Noam Chomsky, the octogenarian leftist academic.

“One of the big questions when it comes to domestic spying is, ‘Who have been the NSA’s specific targets?’," he said.

“Are they political critics and dissidents and activists? Are they genuinely people we’d regard as terrorists?

What are the metrics and calculations that go into choosing those targets and what is done with the surveillance that is conducted? Those are the kinds of questions that I want to still answer.”

Greenwald said the names would be published via The Intercept, a website funded by Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire founder and chairman of eBay. Greenwald left The Guardian, which published most of the Snowden revelations, last autumn to work for Omidyar.

“As with a fireworks show, you want to save your best for last,” Greenwald told GQ magazine. “The last one is the one where the sky is all covered in spectacular multicoloured hues.”

The publication last week of Greenwald’s book about the story behind Snowden’s leaks has re-ignited controversy about the motives of the young computer technician, who fled to Hong Kong nearly a year ago and was then given refuge by Russia, which has resisted US demands to extradite him.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Michael Goodwin: Pulitzers Reward Traitors, Treason --Awards WaPo & Guardian for stories on Snowden’s stolen docs.

April 22, 2014 Edward Snowden , Michael Goodwin 0 Comments
By Michael Goodwin, Apr. 19, 2014

It’s official: Treason is cool and traitors are acceptable sources for journalists. The Pulitzer Prize says so.

In giving the 2014 Public Service award to The Washington Post and The Guardian for publishing stories based on Edward Snowden’s stolen documents, the Pulitzer judges gave their stamp of approval to news organizations that cooperate with criminals and compromise national security. No doubt the lesson will trickle down to scoop-hungry young journalists that they should cultivate people willing to betray America.

And why not? Those scribes whose sources steal the most important documents could win a Pulitzer and be the toast of anti-Americans around the world. No responsibility for catastrophe is required.

Other ambitious young people might conclude there is glory in being the next Snowden. If they’re really successful, they might get to be part of a propaganda event with Vladimir Putin, as the fugitive Snowden was last week.

Indicted by a federal grand jury under the Espionage Act, he lives under the tender mercies of Putin and the warm embrace of the Communist state. He’s safe as long as he’s useful, as he was when Putin took time out from carving up his neighbors to use Snowden to mock America. Because the former NSA contractor didn’t bat out a secret message with his eyes that he was being tortured, we must assume that he’s voluntarily burnishing Putin’s image during the campaign to crush the freedom of millions of Ukrainians.

Snowden’s video appearance with the dictator, where he asked the ex-KGB agent a softball question about Russian surveillance, should have embarrassed the ­Pulitzer people. Coming days ­after they sanctified his dirty work, they were reminded that Snowden is no whistleblower.

He didn’t stay to make his case to the American public or to fight the charges in court. He ran first to China and then to Russia to spill his national-security secrets about programs that aim to stop the next 9/11 before it happens.

Snowden stole thousands of documents in part by tricking colleagues into surrendering their security passwords to get access beyond his clearance level.

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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Ed Snowden, Russian TV Star, Hands Putin A Propaganda Coup --Useful Idiot

April 19, 2014 Crimea , Edward Snowden 0 Comments
By Howard Kurtz, Apr. 18, 2014, Fox News

What are the odds?

I mean, Vladimir Putin does a call-in show and one guy who happens to get through—to ask a question in English—is Ed Snowden?

That is one amazing coincidence—almost as amazing as those soldiers who mysteriously materialized in Crimea turning out to be Russian.

In a few moments, Snowden became part of a Soviet-style propaganda machine, even though he clearly views himself as a public-spirited crusader.

After Snowden leaked all those NSA documents to the Guardian and the Washington Post, which shared a Pulitzer Prize this week, he fled to Hong Kong and then to Moscow, which was more than happy to tweak President Obama by harboring him.

But Snowden is clearly drawn to the spotlight, and he played a starring role in Putin’s political theater on Thursday.

He gave the Russian leader a chance to beat his chest about how moral he is, compared to the bad old USA.

Keep in mind that Snowden is not just some zealous activist. Some people think he’s a traitor, others think he’s a hero sparking a global debate. But there is no dispute that he is a fugitive from justice.

Nor did he just ask a question. He gave a little speech, saying that White House and other reviews of the NSA surveillance program had concluded “that these programs are ineffective in stopping terrorism. They also found that they unreasonably intrude into the private lives of ordinary citizens.”

Having delivered his anti-NSA spin, Snowden serves up the pitch for Putin to hit: “Does Russia intercept, store, or analyze in any way the communications of millions of individuals? And do you believe that simply increasing the effectiveness of intelligence or law enforcement investigations can justify placing societies, rather than subjects, under surveillance?”

What a coup for Putin. And he did not miss the opportunity.

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