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Edward Snowden asks Ecuador for asylum
BBC ^ | 23 June 2013 | BBC

Posted on 06/23/2013 10:42:54 AM PDT by SgtBilko

Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who leaked classified documents revealing US internet and phone surveillance, has asked Ecuador for asylum.

The request was confirmed by Ecuador's foreign minister on Twitter.

Mr Snowden had fled the US for Hong Kong but flew out on Sunday morning and is currently in Moscow.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asylum; benghazi; constitution; ecuador; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; nsa; snowden; snowdenrussia
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To: dragnet2

>>why is he guilty of treason

Because he’s compromised American intelligence capabilities by revealing IP Addresses inside Communist China that were being watched?


181 posted on 06/24/2013 9:37:03 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: caww

Yeah, but the folks in the Peanut Gallery might.

Maybe even some of the folks over in unit 61398.

The Truth is a powerful thing.


182 posted on 06/24/2013 9:40:15 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: TArcher
Communist China??

Ya mean your governments good friend the Chinese, who the U.S. government borrowed from and is now in debt trillions of the American treasure?

Those Communist Mr. archer?

What's up with that Mr. archer?

183 posted on 06/24/2013 9:49:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: TArcher

And now the Communist Chinese are suddenly your enemy and this governments enemy as you shop at Walmart?

Hows that work Mr. archer?


184 posted on 06/24/2013 9:51:06 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

UCExMCHVx7LHYGgEik0ttEcQf0v59Gu1iZv3qrCw3IhSgvU=

Cryptically yours,
TArcher


185 posted on 06/24/2013 9:51:39 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: TArcher

LOL!


186 posted on 06/24/2013 9:52:39 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: TArcher

You run for that tall grass real fast!

What a hoot!


187 posted on 06/24/2013 9:53:18 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Communist Chinese ideology has always been antithetical to American FReedom.

And I don’t shop at Walmart.


188 posted on 06/24/2013 9:53:33 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: TArcher

And now the Communist Chinese are suddenly your enemy and this governments enemy


189 posted on 06/24/2013 9:54:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: TArcher

Communist China??

Ya mean your governments good friend the Chinese, who the U.S. government borrowed from and is now in debt trillions of the American treasure?

Those Communist Mr. archer?


190 posted on 06/24/2013 9:54:51 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
It's Dick's Fault.


191 posted on 06/24/2013 9:55:46 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: TArcher

Ya know what?

I don’t trust you.

You reek....


192 posted on 06/24/2013 9:56:29 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Your Engrish needs more work if you expect to cut the mustard in unit 61398.

https://www.mandiant.com/blog/mandiant-exposes-apt1-chinas-cyber-espionage-units-releases-3000-indicators/

Try Harder


193 posted on 06/24/2013 9:59:17 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: TArcher

Ya, I was waiting for the grammar spelling comment..

See the tagline below, slick.


194 posted on 06/24/2013 10:00:35 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

What’s DARPanet?

Here, you can Google that too:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=DARPAnet


195 posted on 06/24/2013 10:03:01 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: dragnet2

No, Comrade Snowden reeked.


196 posted on 06/24/2013 10:10:35 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: dragnet2

>>I don’t trust you.

Uhuh. But you trust the punk who’s evidently got this...

” I had access to the full rosters of everyone working at the NSA, the entire intelligence community, and undercover assets all over the world. The locations of every station, we have what their missions are, and so forth.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/officials-how-edward-snowden-could-hurt-the-u-s/

...up for sale.


197 posted on 06/24/2013 10:43:55 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: TArcher

You post links from prisonplanet and then ABC, on the same thread?

How desperate is that?

Next you’ll be posting .gov links..

I knew there was something about you I didn’t trust.


198 posted on 06/24/2013 11:06:20 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Buzz off Comrade, you’re pwned.


199 posted on 06/25/2013 4:22:01 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: dragnet2

See?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22I+had+access+to+the+full+rosters+of+everyone+working+at+the+NSA%22+snowden&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1


200 posted on 06/25/2013 5:16:42 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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