Posted on 06/11/2013 9:15:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The whistleblower who leaked details of top-secret US surveillance programmes has disappeared from sight in Hong Kong - with Russia saying it would consider granting him asylum.
Edward Snowden, 29, left his hotel on Monday, ahead of a probable attempt by the US government to have him returned to face charges.
Mr Snowden, who was a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), had admitted giving details of the monitoring of phone calls and internet data, from companies such as Google and Facebook, to The Guardian and Washington Post.
He checked out of Hong Kong's Mira Hotel, where he was last confirmed to be, hours after going public in a video released on Sunday by The Guardian.
His whereabouts are not known but he is believed to still be in the Chinese territory.
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He is dead
There's simply amazing stuff in there.
Then there was this scam going on where nonprofits were given a cheap rate to call donors and then mail brochures to them. A deal too good to be true, when the scammer dialed the number, he had the name, number, amount of donation, etc. ALL FOR FREE. He would then sell that donor list to others!
I think you don't understand that NSA was doing nothing new ~ the gypsies got there long before they did ~ might even have some of them on the rolls.
I'd think recording conversations would be among the last things you'd want to do since it'd slow you down getting to the good stuff.
Note, some of this stuff falls into the category of prognostication by auguries ~ but without the birds. It's still good stuff, and a reasonably sharp intelligence analyst, or con man, can deduce ALL SORTS OF THINGS from it.
Thank you for making this point to this poster!
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