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Tuesday July 2, 01:30 UTC
On 30th June 2013 WikiLeaks’ legal advisor in the Edward Snowden
matter, Sarah Harrison, submitted by hand a number of requests for
asylum and asylum assistance on behalf of Edward J. Snowden, the NSA
whistleblower.
The requests were delivered to an official at the Russian consulate
at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow late in the evening. The documents
outline the risks of persecution Mr Snowden faces in the United States
and have started to be delivered by the Russian consulate to the
relevant embassies in Moscow.
The requests were made to a number of countries including the
Republic of Austria, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Federative
Republic of Brazil, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of
Cuba, the Republic of Finland, the French Republic, the Federal Republic
of Germany, the Republic of India, the Italian Republic, the Republic
of Ireland, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Nicaragua,
the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Poland, the Russian Federation,
the Kingdom of Spain, the Swiss Confederation and the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela.
The requests join or update others previously made including to the Republic of Ecuador and the Republic of Iceland.
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| Courtesy: The Guardian |
Monday July 1, 21:40 UTC
One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my
freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My
continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old,
family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I
trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in
me for which I will always be thankful.
On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would
not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now
it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President
ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which
I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.
This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and
neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools
of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but
those who would come after me.
For decades the United States of America has been one of the
strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this
right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current
government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the
strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of
nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless
person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to
stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The
right to seek asylum.
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers
like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned,
or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is
afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional
government it was promised — and it should be.
I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.
Edward Joseph Snowden
Monday 1st July 2013
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French President Francois Hollande told the United States on Monday to
immediately cease spying on European institutions, after reports of
covert US surveillance of EU diplomatic missions.
"We cannot accept this kind of behaviour between partners and allies,"
Hollande told journalists during a visit to the western city of Lorient.
"We ask that this immediately stop."
Hollande said "enough elements have already been gathered for us to ask
for explanations" from Washington about the spying allegations.
"There can be no negotiations or transactions in all areas until we have
obtained these guarantees, for France but also for all of the European
Union, for all partners of the United States," Hollande told
journalists.
It was an apparent reference to sensitive trade talks which are set to
start between the US and the EU on creating the world's largest free
trade zone.
"We know well that there are systems that have to be checked, especially
to fight terrorism, but I don't think that it is in our embassies or in
the European Union that this threat exists," he said.
French Minister of Foreign Trade Nicole Bricq said the upcoming talks
on the new trade zone, due to begin next week, could be jeopardised.
"This is a topic that could affect relations between Europe and the United States," she told AFP.
"We must absolutely re-establish confidence... it will be difficult to
conduct these extremely important negotiations," she said.
Hollande said he had asked Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to get in
touch with US Secretary of State John Kerry immediately "to get all the
explanations and all the information."
German news weekly Der Spiegel reported that the US National Security
Agency (NSA) carried out covert surveillance on EU diplomatic missions,
basing its report on confidential documents, some of which it had been
able to consult via fugitive US leaker Edward Snowden.
The European Union, Paris and Berlin have angrily demanded answers over the allegations.
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What happend to Michael Hastings? The revelation that Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA before his death and had contacted a Wikileaks lawyer about being under investigation by the FBI hours before his car exploded into flames has bolstered increasingly valid claims that the 33-year-old was assassinated.
Hastings died last week in Hollywood when his car hit a tree at high speed.
According to a prominent security analyst, technology exists that could've allowed someone to hack his car. Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post that what is known about the single-vehicle crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack."
Clarke said, "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers" — including the United States — know how to remotely seize control of a car.
"What has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is that it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a car, and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn't want acceleration, to throw on the brakes when the driver doesn't want the brakes on, to launch an air bag," Clarke told The Huffington Post. "You can do some really highly destructive things now, through hacking a car, and it's not that hard."
It's possible that Hastings car was hacked considering the people he had written about in his past and what he recently had been talking about.
Kathleen Fisher from DARPA recently did a presentation on the ease of hacking a standard American sedan. Volvo started the SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) program in 2009 and they are now reporting that their testing has been "successfully completed." Hacking of a lemmings train like Volvo's, could lead to massive collisions on the roads and there should be major security concerns considering what recently has been learned.
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