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U.S. charges Snowden with espionage
WaPo ^ | 6/21/13 | Peter Finn and Sari Horwitz

Posted on 06/21/2013 3:22:17 PM PDT by Nachum

Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials.

Snowden was charged with espionage, theft and conversion of government property, the officials said.

The complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, a jurisdiction where Snowden’s former employer, Booz Allen Hamilton, is headquartered, and a district with a long track record in prosecuting cases with national security implications.

A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

Snowden flew to Hong Kong last month after leaving his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii with a collection of highly classified documents that he acquired while working at the agency as a systems analyst.

The documents, some of which have been published in The Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper, detailed some of the most secret surveillance operations undertaken by the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as classified legal memos and court orders underpinning the programs in the United States.

The 29-year-old intelligence analyst revealed himself June 9 as the leaker in an interview with the Guardian and said he went to Hong Kong because it provided him the “cultural and legal framework to allow me to work without being immediately detained.”

Snowden subsequently disappeared from public view; it is thought that he is still in the Chinese territory. Hong Kong has its own legislative and legal systems but ultimately answers to Beijing, under the so-called “one country, two systems” arrangement.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; castrating0bama; espionage; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; obamavoter; snowden; snowdenespionage
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1 posted on 06/21/2013 3:22:17 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 06/21/2013 3:22:36 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

How ironic.


3 posted on 06/21/2013 3:24:00 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Nachum

Let’s put it out in open court and see what happens.


4 posted on 06/21/2013 3:25:30 PM PDT by 22202NOVA (DoD civilian, retired Army. Furlough...the new "F" word.)
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To: Nachum

Why shouldn’t someone (Panetta?/Obama) be charged with leaking info that got Seal Team Six members murdered and got the Pakistani doc who helped get binladen jailed? That info was no less treasonous.


5 posted on 06/21/2013 3:27:15 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Nachum

Espionage for the American people. Some Charge.


6 posted on 06/21/2013 3:29:18 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Nachum

Does the US government have more right to privacy than the US citizen has?


7 posted on 06/21/2013 3:29:42 PM PDT by Truth2012
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To: MestaMachine; maggief; thouworm; penelopesire; SE Mom; crosslink

Charges filed against snowden


8 posted on 06/21/2013 3:30:26 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: Nachum

Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, Barak HUSSEIN Obama, Nancy Pelosi...

Oh, my imagination got the better of me. Please excuse that rant.


9 posted on 06/21/2013 3:30:44 PM PDT by Mark (Obama is more confused than a hungry baby in a topless bar)
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To: Nachum
Looks like Obama's NSA should be charged with violating the 4th amendment.

Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst and Bush-era NSA whistleblower, claimed Wednesday that the intelligence community has ordered surveillance on a wide range of groups and individuals, including high-ranking military officials, lawmakers and diplomats.

10 posted on 06/21/2013 3:31:06 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Nachum

Aside from confirming that the Outlaw 0bama regime routinely violates everyone’s Fourth Amendment rights on a daily basis, precisely what else did Snowden reveal to prompt charges of espionage?


11 posted on 06/21/2013 3:31:24 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Jesus, Please Save America!)
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To: freedomfiter2
>How ironic.

No kidding!

Saudi mole charges US citizen with treason for exposing fascism.

12 posted on 06/21/2013 3:33:28 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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To: Nachum
 photo obamaSnoop.jpg
14 posted on 06/21/2013 3:38:08 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: Nachum
filed a sealed criminal complaint

So we aren't even allowed to know what they're charging him with?

Snowden was charged with espionage, theft and conversion of government property, the officials said.

The "officials" don't have names? I don't take anything the government says. Maybe they charged them with espionage, maybe not.

15 posted on 06/21/2013 3:38:52 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Nachum

I hope he (Snowden) tapped into Hillary and Barack’s stext messages and photos.


16 posted on 06/21/2013 3:39:32 PM PDT by Robert Lomax
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To: Truth2012

You better believe the government thinks it has a greater right to privacy than any individual. Not only that, they have the law enforcement officers and the lawyers to back up that assertion.

When the government no longer fears its citizens, the citizens have become subjects, worthy only of being studied like a bug mounted on a pin, up on a board.

Liberty for all is a principle very much in peril, and there isn’t all that much liberty even for the few.


17 posted on 06/21/2013 3:39:33 PM PDT by alloysteel (Unattended children will be given a Red Bull and a free Kazoo. Reminds me of Congress...)
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To: Nachum

This is why he went to Hong Kong—not because he was spying for China (or anyone else) but so that he might have a chance of not being handed over to the criminal U.S. government.

Hopefully Hong Kong won’t turn him over.


18 posted on 06/21/2013 3:39:48 PM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: Nachum

I don’t buy that the NSA does not know exactly where Snowden is at any given minute, there was no shocking news revealed. Anyone who did not know the Govt. was tracking citizens has been not paying attention since the time before the patriot act was first discussed.


19 posted on 06/21/2013 3:42:31 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: sergeantdave
If Republicans can find two brain cells to rub together, they would pass legislation making it a crime to hack Internet accounts. And announce it loud and clear with a news conference on the capital steps. It would make democrats the bad guys and destroy the party.

That ain't gonna happen. The Republicans hate Snowden just as much as the Democrats do.

Buckwheat is toast.

There is no office left for President Obama to run for, so what do his approval ratings matter now?

20 posted on 06/21/2013 3:44:48 PM PDT by .30Carbine
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