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How ironic.
Let’s put it out in open court and see what happens.
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.
Espionage for the American people. Some Charge.
Does the US government have more right to privacy than the US citizen has?
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.
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?
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.
I hope he (Snowden) tapped into Hillary and Barack’s stext messages and photos.
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.
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.
Well, it will take the BS immigration bill off the front pages.
It seems like almost everything the government does is sealed or top secret. Does everything involve national security?
>> Friday night news dump
He would have been charged sooner, but public support for Snowden was too strong.
Snowden had to be charged regardless of the merits of his actions. There should be a public Congressional hearing that exposes the laws and funding that drives the controversial activity. Snowden and the NSA are the products of programs established and funded by those elected to represent the citizens allegedly being spied on.
If Snowden has half a brain, by the time the Guardian Hong Kong interview aired, he was already long gone. If he truly does want to go to Iceland, the hubbub about him going there should not even start until he is already safely there.
You figure that the aircraft they think with him on board would be shadowed by two F-16s, and perhaps forced to land. But imagine the surprise if he is not on board. And there are US federal marshals dogging his footsteps.
Since Iceland has been mentioned, that is the last place he should go. Instead everybody assisting him should think he is heading in a different direction, so if they are overheard or intercepted, they will just start a wild goose chase.
...”New information discovered by Reuters about Snowden’s employment record, online postings and education comes as U.S. lawmakers grill intelligence officials about how a 29-year-old high school dropout managed to gain access to such top secrets as the NSA’s electronic surveillance programs.
According to sources briefed on the matter, Snowden was EMPLOYED BY AN UNIDENTIFIED CLASSIFIED AGENCY IN WASHINGTON from 2005 to mid-2006, by the CIA from 2006 to 2009, when he primarily worked overseas, and by Dell Inc from 2009 to 2013, when he worked in the United States and Japan as an NSA contractor....
...One of his postings, however, dealt with the now familiar issue of corporate compliance with government eavesdropping programs. On February 4, 2010, while working for Dell, Snowden commented on a discussion about a major technology company that allegedly was giving the U.S. government access to its computer servers.
“It really concerns me how little this sort of corporate behavior bothers those outside of technology circles,” Snowden wrote. “Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types.””
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-usa-security-snowden-online-idUSBRE95D02320130614
I still want to know why they hired this person with so little education. I know some people here excuse it because he was a computer nerd but I know many computer experts who’d have loved that job.
If it’s a classifed agency how come this guy knew about it. Where did he hear about it? This guy is also a “gamer” - “An avid gamer, he posted on the ethics of video game piracy in 2003”... not unlike Stephenson-Benghazi who was also an avid gamer. Can’t get my head around what’s really going on but it sure smells.