RE your #150: “Gov. can and does abduct when and where they want to.”
I’m not in any position to really know, but have a strong sense that you are probably 100% correct about that.
I do ‘alot’ of homework concerning that which interests me....
....but if we can swoop to grab, as our Military Teams have done and reported proven, they certainly can do so with Waldo. He was in the “mole” mode prior...now he’s held up underground somewhere...unless Putin took him home for awhile. (said the spider to the fly).
Staying on this thread as this develops....as I have said..Assange is in this Snowden event Big time...and I believe we’ll find instrumental in getting Snowden to act for him.....
from the article....
....... ‘Julian Assange is again challenging the world order’........
Exactly a year after being forced to incarcerate himself in a small room in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, the Wikileaks founder who is helping NSA whistleblower Snowden has proven he can still enrage the U.S. and its allies.
....Assange has been trying for a while to upend the accepted structure. Two years ago he began presenting an interview show for the Kremlin-financed Russia Today network...... and after falling out with most of the major western news organizations, ........
.......then he began to collaborate with radical newspapers and websites such as the ‘Hezbollah-’supporting Al-Akhbar’.
. ....His cooperation with mainstream newsgroups such as the New York Times ended after major difference on the publication of Wikileaks materials such as the necessity to redact the names of sources who could be harmed........... Assange accused them of trying to harm him and his organization – he accused the editors of The Guardian of being part of a “Jewish” conspiracy to block fundraising for Wikileaks.
The fact that for the last two and a half years, since Wikileaks published the State Department cables, the organization has failed to recreate a similar coup with its subsequent publications............ (which included the emails of a minor private intelligence company, hundreds of thousands of random Syrian emails and archives of Henry Kissinger that had already been published) ...........contributed to the impression that Assange had become a marginal and laughable figure.
Now, a year after entering isolation, he is achieving sweet revenge by assuming patronage for Snowden whose revelations provided major headlines for The Guardian and the Washington Post in recent weeks.
Assange is trying to prove he doesn’t need the mainstream media and through the internet and with the help of social networks, radical bloggers and anarchist hackers such as members of the Anonymous collective....... who probably supplied the materials for Wikileaks recent publication,..... he can dictate the media’s agenda and continue provoke the Western powers.
This afternoon he was back in the limelight when hundreds of reporters from around the world listened in to his phone press conference; despite his saying nothing new about Snowden’s whereabouts, save for the revelation that he was “healthy and safe.”
(photo included of Assange in his balconey over the crowd)