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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.
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.
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.
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. source
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised transparency and
open government yet his administration is one of the most closed
governments in US history, described as being worse than even the Nixon
administration.
The technology and information revolution allows the government to
cast its net wider than ever before; collecting data, watching, spying
and analysing. As revelations of systemic snooping continue to hit the
headlines, Empire asks: who is watching the watchers?
Just when more people open up about their private lives through social media, the government becomes ever more intrusive.
With more than 1,300 government surveillance and monitoring facilities in the United States, Empire
looks to understand why so many government programmes are top secret.
Why is secrecy and surveillance becoming such big business? And, is a
national security state anything new?
We discuss whether state secrets really work, the rationale behind
them, and examine what the world might be like without secrets.
As Empire
explores the ultimate secret of secrets, the implicit conclusion that
emerges is that secrecy in government is counterproductive. It is not
only terribly damaging to the democratic process, but also, in the
long-run, to the very objective of national security.
Joining us
as we unpack some of the known unknowns are Oscar-winning film director
Oliver Stone, and war reporters Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley.
We unravel the psychology of secrets with psychiatrist Justin Frank, the author of Obama on the Couch and Bush on the Couch. We look at the impact of state secrets brought to light with Dana Priest, a leading Washington Post investigative reporter on national security and author of two books, including her most recent Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State.
They may be arrested, or Obama may be impeached, but at this point, I don't think it will matter much.
Their arrests, or at the very least, Obama's Impeachment may also just be a ploy to keep the sheople following the big government; while the Shadow Government of the 1% Elites continue their agenda.
Right now, there are more and more people that are opening their eyes to what is going on, and unrest is beginning to form. If the Shadow Government allows these arrests, or trials, or impeachment to occur, that will just be another way to calm the uprising that is beginning to boil in the people's blood. They will attain control, calm the crowds, rock many citizens back to sleep with their mainstream news propaganda, and continue with their agenda.
Obama is just a figurehead puppet for them, as many other governmental leaders of countries around the globe are, and until we realize this, their agenda will continue to move forward, no matter who is in the Presidential seat.
It no longer matters who is in the Presidential seat... All a President, or Prime Minister, or any other country leader is, is a puppet for the Real Government; the Shadow Government. The Upper 1%... The Elites... These are the sociopaths that are really in control. They are forming their New World Order, and sadly, most of us don't fit into their 'order.' Pointing fingers at our leaders is just what they want; that keeps our focus away from them: the Shadow Government that is REALLY in control. As long as they humor us, with possibly allowing us to take down Bush and Obama, they can continue to commit their heinous crimes against us, in secret, continuing to use us as their serfs, until our usefulness is no longer needed.
This face has become a hero's face for American's rights of privacy
Edward Snowden, former intelligence analyst for the National Security Agency, has been charged with espionage, by the U.S. Government.
So... ...they are charging him with doing his job well?
After all, he worked as an intelligence analyst for the world's biggest spying agency that is spying on not only everyone in the USA, but inadvertently the whole world.
espionage es·pi·o·nage [es-pee-uh-nahzh] noun ...the act or practice of spying.
Example sentences: 1. Cobb runs a dream team of mindbending espionage agents, true inside operators. 2. It is difficult to provide evidence of espionage, given its secretive manner. 3. The disclosure comes amid heightened fears of state-sponsored espionage.
Origin: late 18th century: from French espionnage, from espionner 'to spy', from espion 'a spy'
Espionage, or in layman's terms: spying was his job!
An N.S.A. spokesperson astonished his audience when announcing the espionage (spying) charges against Snowden; completely unaware of the absurdity of the charge, and he announced the charge holding a perfectly straight face.
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He said, “These charges send a clear message [that] in the United States, you can’t spy on people.”
He went on to speak of the other charge of theft of Government Documents, saying, “The American people have the right to assume that their private documents will remain private and won’t be collected by someone in the government for his own purposes.” “Only by bringing Mr. Snowden to justice can we safeguard the most precious of American rights: privacy…” WHAT???
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Was this sarcasm, or a complete mockery of the Government he works for?
Seriously, couldn't they have cooked up something better to charge him with? Maybe Treason? Oh... Wait! That would be what our government is committing on us...when they break our Constitutional laws, by using the N.S.A.'s espionage intelligence analysts in their spying of every move, email, text, phone call, and literally everything that we do in privacy.
There are nearly 5 million people in the United States with security
clearance, and any one of them could be the next Edward Snowden or
Bradley Manning.
So what -- if anything - are intelligence agencies
doing to better keep their secrets. And, might more whistleblowing be
just thing to convince more Americans that massive domestic surveillance
isn't the best way to keep us safe.
Political Commentator Sam Sacks
speaks with former NSA and CIA Chief Michael Hayden and whistleblower
Jesselyn Radack.
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