Whistleblower Snowden Leaves Hong Kong

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I don't want to simply dump huge amounts of documents without regard to their content. I have to screen everything before releasing it.

My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked. That is why I accepted that position. $200,000 was my 'career high' salary. I had to take pay cuts in the course of pursuing specific work. Booz was not the most I've been paid.

If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of U.S. network operations against their people should be published.
 
I think that the public is owed an explanation of the motivations behind the people who make these disclosures that are outside of the democratic model. When you are subverting the power of government that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy and if you do that in secret consistently as the government does when it wants to benefit from a secret action that it took.

The public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong, and I'm willing to go on the record.
 
Russia won’t extradite Snowden, Putin says

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected US pleas to turn over National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday, saying he is free to travel wherever he wants and insisting that Russian security agencies haven’t contacted him.

Snowden is in the transit zone of a Moscow airport and has not passed through Russian immigration, Putin said, meaning he is not technically in Russia.

After arriving Sunday on a flight from Hong Kong, Snowden registered for a Havana-bound flight from Moscow on Monday en route to Venezuela and then possible asylum in Ecuador, but he didn’t board the plane.

Snowden’s whereabouts since then have been a mystery, and Putin’s comments were the first time Russia has made clear it knows where he is.

Speculation has been rife that Russian security agencies might want to keep Snowden in Russia for a more thorough debriefing, but Putin denied that.

‘‘Our special services never worked with Mr. Snowden and aren’t working with him today,’’ Putin said at a news conference during a visit to Finland.

Putin said that because there is no extradition agreement with the US, it couldn’t meet the US request.

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Well...let's see.... this gentleman has made is way to two of America's biggest global rivals....Hong Kong(China), and Russia.

I don't know what information this guy has on his laptops, but if this were ANY other administration besides Obama's, you guys would be screaming bloody murder.

You have no clue what he has and/or what he divulged to those governments.

This fucker needs taken down before he reveals any more information to potential enemies.

The NSA thing is out. We all know about it. But this guy is hedging his bets with more information than that to be granted free passage from China and Russia.

Let's be realistic and pragmatic here.
 
Threedee said:
Well, who else is going to shield him?
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What do you mean? You don't think that "shielding" comes with a price? You think China and Russia are doing it out of the kindness of their hearts...knowing that they will draw the ire of the US?

C'mon....you're smarter than that.
 
I'm saying that Russia and China are not going to be impacted by shielding him in any manner whatsoever. Russia can continue to engage in such stunts as planting its flag in the North Pole, and the West can do nothing about it (as indicated by the fact that said incident happened back in 2002 or so, and still nothing of a response except bitching and moaning). China can continue to engage in trade with the West, and business as usual...
 
Threedee said:
I'm saying that Russia and China are not going to be impacted by shielding him in any manner whatsoever. Russia can continue to engage in such stunts as planting its flag in the North Pole, and the West can do nothing about it (as indicated by the fact that said incident happened back in 2002 or so, and still nothing of a response except bitching and moaning). China can continue to engage in trade with the West, and business as usual...
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So....if he sold them top secret information in exchange for shelter, free passage and who knows what else, you're cool with that? Take your Obama Blinders off for a minute and think.
 
Here's the thing with Snowden. His revealing of the NSA program was in itself an important revelation. In that context, the government is 100% out of line. I can't say if Snowden will sell secrets to the Russians. Quite frankly, I think Putin sees value in him symbolically, as he represents a failure within the US system of government. The Chinese probably wanted more information than he could or would provide, while the Russians are far more showy and brash, to the extent that he may never be expected to sell us out.
 
I did not reveal any US operations against legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous. These nakedly, aggressively criminal acts are wrong no matter the target.
 
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