Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations...

[Ben]

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...r-surveillance

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Rand Paul: NSA monitoring an 'extraordinary invasion of privacy'

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politi...cy-165742.html

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Peeping Barry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/op...bama.html?_r=0

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The Irrationality of Giving Up This Much Liberty to Fight Terror:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...terror/276695/


Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center of a Debate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/bu...nted=all&_r=1&


Rand Paul Tells Fox Viewers To Join Lawsuit Against NSA: ‘I’m Going To Challenge This At The Supreme Court’:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rand-paul...supreme-court/

[robertlouis]

I guess it's just too much to hope that one day the intelligence services will hold up their hands and say, "OK guys, you got us bang to rights. Yep, we snoop on everything you do, we destabilise sovereign nations and we run dumb persecution campaigns against individuals and organisations all the time. After all, the politicians give us these huge budgets and we have to spend it on something."

But I'm not holding my breath and I don't believe in Santa Claus either.

In the meantime, they're ignoring the blatant enormity of what they're doing and saying it's all the fault of the whistleblower and that they're out to get him. Now THAT'S chutzpah!

Oh well, I guess Bradley Manning could do with some company.....

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Rand Paul To Fight NSA In Supreme Court:

[Ben]

I guess it's just too much to hope that one day the intelligence services will hold up their hands and say, "OK guys, you got us bang to rights. Yep, we snoop on everything you do, we destabilise sovereign nations and we run dumb persecution campaigns against individuals and organisations all the time. After all, the politicians give us these huge budgets and we have to spend it on something."

But I'm not holding my breath and I don't believe in Santa Claus either.

In the meantime, they're ignoring the blatant enormity of what they're doing and saying it's all the fault of the whistleblower and that they're out to get him. Now THAT'S chutzpah!

Oh well, I guess Bradley Manning could do with some company.....

Remember, too, what President Obama once said about whistleblowers. He briefly sang their praises.
Well, I think Obama has the best of intentions. I don't think he's a malevolent character. As the likes of Jeremy Scahill have alluded to. Scahill pointed out that politicians are motivated by the best of intentions....
I believe Obama thinks he's a decent and moral person.
It's just that power has a tendency to corrupt....

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Ron Paul Worried U.S. Might 'Kill' Snowden With DRONE: 'I Don't Think For A Minute He's A Traitor'