I wonder who wants him dead? It couldn’t be the American fascist state, could it?
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is reportedly set to request additional protection from Russian authorities after receiving a growing number of death threats. The former NSA contractor has been living at an undisclosed location in Russia since August when he received asylum from Washington’s prosecution. RT’s Marina Portnaya reports.
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Snowden, the Honorary Rector, will eventually wind up with an Honorary Drone Missile up his Rectum.
I’m actually quite surprised he hasn’t been killed yet.
Did you see today that arrests have been made regarding the 1978 Lufthansa heist? Wow. A lousy $6 million in cash and jewels stolen. Banksters steal that every 4.5 seconds …. the fascistocracy sees no problem wif dat. Point is, Snowden is a Dead Man Walking. Our righteous and benevolent agencies with 3 letters (CIA, FBI, DHS, BLS ..) will pursue Snowden until he’s dead.
And if we fail, we’ll beg the Mossad to do it. They’d probably get the job done in two or three days.
Mr. Snowden is a hero today. In death he’ll become a martyr and achieve Sainthood.
Uh… Snowden is in one of the few countries that can actually protect him against the CIA, Mossad, etc…. as long as they desire to do so. Had he made it to South America he probably would already be dead, from “food poisoning,”, “bathing accident,” or something similarly implausible but credible for the sheep. He may need to live in Russia a long, long time.
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Thanks for posting that.
It appears the live link for that broadcast (3PM Eastern Time) is here;
http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden/
I hope you curs appreciate my efforts …. I am missing significant portions of the Justin Bieber arrest story. Oh wait ….. they’ll repeat the story 34 more times today. Nevermind …
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Obama’s Dilemma: How to Best Kill Snowden
Barack Obama has a problem, with his heralded Friday announcement of NSA “reforms” being just the latest bill of goods foisted off on a doomed public by a professional con artist it should now be crystal clear that there will be no attempts to reign in the American Stasi.
What Obama now has to do is to find an acceptable way to eliminate the source of the surveillance state’s problems which is of course former government contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden from the equation. Barry’s dilemma is that with Snowden continuing to receive public support – including what is likely a higher approval level than the pope of hope himself – he can’t risk assassinating the man and turning him into a martyr.
While an apprehension of Snowden followed by torture and a huge spectacle of a public show trial that would send a message to any who may have similar ideas would have just a short while back been ideal that is just not going to happen. This is especially so now that even the naive idea of serious oversight let alone meaningful reform of the rogue spying behemoth has been dismissed by El Presidente as though he were flicking a fly off of his collar. With the worst stuff yet to come out and it is going to make what has thus far been revealed look like amateur hour the need to eliminate him as well as others is imperative for the cancer that is eating this country from within to avoid any chance at being cut out.
What has yet to break is of course still the subject of much speculation but a recent piece by writer and historian Alfred McCoy (The Politics of Heroin) posted at the website Tom Dispatch under the headline that “It’s About Blackmail, Not National Security” has finally interjected a topic that has been obvious about all of this surveillance from the get go. McCoy’s piece, itself tiled “Surveillance and Scandal” reveals at least one of those functions of the NSA and it’s tentacles that is hidden under the star spangled facade of what has always been the phony war on terror.
The escalation of the anti-Snowden smears, especially in the last month by such enemies of the state as the preening little Nazis like Michael Hayden and the fanatical House Intelligence Committee head Mike Rogers who just this week has pretty much accused Snowden of being a Russian spy without a shred of proof which was dutifully promoted by the corrupt state media as fact. Rogers, who is hell bent on destroying every last shred of American privacy is a fascist thug who on a good day does a hell of a good Reinhard Heydrich impersonation has been given to us all by the fine voters in Michigan’s Eight Congressional district.
One would hope that these people will suddenly rise up come November and oust this menace to society and common decency from office but as is so often with these swine they are ensconced for perpetuity in gerrymandered districts and their ability to exert enormous influence of the country at large despite only being a true representative of a very small amount of actual voters. Like Heydrich, Rogers seems like he would do “Night and Fog” very well and as a former FBI agent his jones for unconstitutional voyeurism is only slightly behind that of the maniacal J.Edgar Hoover.
Snowden understandably is scared, you don’t spit in Leviathan’s face and get away with it.
This is especially so when he is one who spiked the ball, proclaimed victory and called out both Rogers and the morally bereft sow Dianne Feinstein aka DiFi for not doing their jobs when it comes to oversight of the surveillance industrial complex. The hydra of malevolence will always rapidly reconfigure itself, especially when it has the greatest propaganda machine in human history, blackmail cards to play on all who have been spied upon and black ops specialists whose primary reason for existence is to follow orders without question, search and destroy and terminate with extreme prejudice. Obama already has become the first U.S. President to openly authorize extrajudicial killings of American citizens and Snowden has now obviously made this very, very personal.
It is of much interest that as the Winter Olympics in Sochi are increasingly becoming the target of what will be some incredibly savage terrorist attacks, the hype today is over the “Black Widow” suicide bombers but notable also that the U.S. government has now ordered planes and warships sent to the Black Sea to “assist” the hated Putin regime in managing the “terrorist” problem. Perhaps if some accounts are true that the Russian leader is even now regretting not taking Bandar Bush up on his alleged offer for in exchange for Putin’s cooperation in the preempted war on Syria. It is however a very ominous sign, especially for the cornered whistleblower that Rogers is not only engaging in the promulgating of talking points that he pulled out of his ass about Snowden being Putin’s spy but also engaged in the following exchange with CNN’s Candy Crowley on the Sunday morning propaganda circuit:
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ROGERS: Yeah. I am very concerned about the security status of the Olympics. I do believe that the Russian government needs to be more cooperative with the United States when it comes to the security of the games. We have found a departure of cooperation that’s very concerning to me.
CROWLEY: Can you tell me what a departure of cooperation is? What does that mean? What are they doing?
ROGERS: Well, think about the problems they’ve had. So they’ve had several bombings. They disrupted plots. They’ve now moved some 30,000 armed troops down to the region. That tells you that their level of concern is great, but we don’t seem to be getting all of the information we need to protect our athletes in the games. I think this needs to change, and it should change soon. This is not going to be a political problem for the Russians to share, although they apparently don’t think so. It will be a problem–
CROWLEY: They don’t want to share their intelligence with U.S. intelligence.
ROGERS: That’s correct. So what we’re finding is they aren’t giving us the full story about what are the threat streams, who do we need to worry about, are those groups, the terrorist groups who have had some success, are they still plotting? There’s a missing gap, and you never want that when you go into something I think as important as the Olympic Games and the security of the athletes, and the participants and those who come to watch the games.
CROWLEY: Just quickly if I can, if that does not change, would you worry about U.S. participation in the Olympics?
ROGERS: If I don’t see a higher level of cooperation, I’m concerned today. I don’t think anything would abate that concern short of full cooperation from the Russian security services.
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Cooperation likely including the whereabouts of one Edward Snowden whose remaining lifespan at this point may very well be measured in weeks.
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http://carryingaflag.blogspot.com/
Snowden seems deeply naïve. Yeah he was smart enough to stay a step ahead of the security apparatus so far, but the fact that he even thought for one second that he would be safe in Latin America calls his wisdom into question. He’s clearly not paranoid enough. He should be learning how to dogsled and survive in a hand-dug snow cave.
What I didn’t see mentioned in this article is the “insurance file” Snowden has distributed for release should anything happen to him. Since the gov has no idea of the extent he got away with, seems to me they would be betting the farm on his murder.
After they get Snowden, his confederates may be less inclined to release his “insurance file”. If they see a little red dot on their chest, it may concentrate their minds a bit…
My world has been turned upside down. If anyone had told me 2014 would be this way in 1980 or something I would have laughed and said they were nuts. The USA is a fascist police state in most ways surpassing the nazis (and it isnt even close), while Russia is a peace loving, freedom respecting nation to whom you turn to learn the truth.
I wish Brezhnev were alive to see this, but especially Khrushchev. Once he got over his shock, would be digging it. I always suspected he was more nationalist than commie fucktard. Somewhere Solzhenitzen is smiling…
Snowden exposed lawless NSA spying. Snowden’s charged under the 1917 Espionage Act. It’s a long ago outdated WW1 relic. It has no current relevance. It doesn’t matter. Or that Snowden committed no crime. He acted under the provisions of the 1989 Whistleblower Protection Act.
It protects federal employees. Reporting government wrongdoing provides a public service. Federal agencies are prohibited from retaliating against those who do so. Acting otherwise violates federal law.
He was Obama’s 8th wrongfully charged victim under the Espionage Act. It’s more than all previous administrations combined. It’s a damning indictment of US lawlessness. In Washington, Snowden is public enemy number one.
America’s only terror threats are ones it events. NSA spying has nothing to do with national security. It’s for control, political advantage and espionage. It doesn’t keep America safe. It’s unconstitutional. It continues unrestrained.
Iska Waran says:
“Snowden seems deeply naïve. Yeah he was smart enough to stay a step ahead of the security apparatus so far, but the fact that he even thought for one second that he would be safe in Latin America calls his wisdom into question. He’s clearly not paranoid enough. He should be learning how to dogsled and survive in a hand-dug snow cave.”
Too late to grow a Vagina now. But then, that’s what Chelsea Manning thought.
A full transcript of Snowden’s Q&A is up ….
http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden/
One of the questions ..
Question: Do you think it’s a shame that Obama gave his NSA speech before his Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board reported?
SNOWDEN: The timing of his speech seems particularly interesting, given that it was accompanied by so many claims that “these programs have not been abused.”
Even if we accept the NSA’s incredibly narrow definition of abuse, which is “someone actually broke the rules so badly we had to investigate them for it,” we’ve seen more instances of identified, intentional abuse than we have seen instances where this unconstitutional mass phone surveillance stopped any kind of terrorist plot at all — even something less than an attack.
To back that up with the government’s own numbers, according to the NSA Inspector General, we’ve seen at least 12 specific, intentional cases of “abuse” by the NSA.
In contrast, the federal government’s independent PCLOB report on the NSA’s mass phone surveillance today (which stated the NSA has spied on at least 120,000,000 American phones under this program) said this:
“We are aware of no instance in which the program directly contributed to the discovery of a previously unknown terrorist plot or the disruption of a terrorist attack.”
At the press conference, Judge Wald stated this program, which has been operated in secret for years, has no basis in law. The panel determined this kind of mass surveillance is illegal and should be ended.
When even the federal government says the NSA violated the constitution at least 120 million times under a single program, but failed to discover even a single “plot,” it’s time to end “bulk collection,” which is a euphemism for mass surveillance. There is simply no justification for continuing an unconstitutional policy with a 0% success rate.
In light of another independent confirmation of this fact, I think Americans should look to the White House and Congress to close the book entirely on the 215 BR provision.
I wonder just how many copies of Mr Snowden’s “Insurance Policy” are out there in private hands? With the ready availability of cheap high-capacity portable storage (e.g. 5T pocket-sized drives) the potential for “many portable copies” is significant, and these copies may be Globally distributed.
Add in the very likely fact that the many “owners” of such copies are probably not charitably disposed to the goings-on of the US Government, and the ubiquitous availability of Internet access (private and public / kiosk), and the certain knowledge that the US Vermacht really has no idea of who had got what, then “the red spot on the chest” ceases to be any effective deterrent – it only really needs one “owner” of such a copy to choose to post the contents onto the Internet via one or more of the very many “Snowden-friendly” blog sites, and the cat would be really, and permanently “out of the bag”.
Could (or would) the US Government attempt to “shut down the Internet”? Such a unilateral action would constitute an Act of War on the rest of the Planet and certainly cause even more damage (physical and political).
Maybe if the US Government is serious about appropriate reparations, they can start by recognising the right of the People to decide how and where the Government operates locally and Globally, which includes that quaint concept of Policing with the full consent of the Populace . . . .
Revolutionary thinking, isn’t it (!!)