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Posted on 10/25/2013 7:13:17 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
U.S. officials are alerting some foreign intelligence services that documents detailing their secret cooperation with the United States have been obtained by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, according to government officials.
Snowden, U.S. officials said, took tens of thousands of military intelligence documents, some of which contain sensitive material about collection programs against adversaries such as Iran, Russia and China. Some refer to operations that in some cases involve countries not publicly allied with the United States.
The process of informing officials in capital after capital about the risk of disclosure is delicate. In some cases, one part of the cooperating government may know about the collaboration while others — such as the foreign ministry — may not, the officials said. The documents, if disclosed, could compromise operations, officials said.
The notifications come as the Obama administration is scrambling to placate allies after allegations that the NSA has spied on foreign leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The reports have forced the administration to play down operations targeting friends while also attempting to preserve other programs that depend on provisional partners. In either case, trust in the United States may be compromised. . .
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“The exception was spying on U.S. citizens....”
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How convinced are you of that statement?
“....with instructions on it going public the minute anything happens to him.”
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Are the recipients of these instructions trustworthy and aren’t they also in someone’s crosshairs?
But the info being released from Snowden is just MetaData in the broad sense.
Maybe you are right. But I can’t help thinking that the Soros cabal has had a hand in the whole thing all along.
I know that I am really stretching the tin foil here, but I just wonder if they actually set up this entire scenario themselves to turn the public against the NSA and against the military.
Reason? The Department of Defense would be the Department most likely to employ people who actually care about this country and want it to continue as a superpower. The Soros Administration is working hard to destroy the military, but there are many loyal Americans still there, so the communists want us to mistrust the military.
The NSA has always been obligated to keep quiet about what it does, ergo, none of the people who are actually doing the work can defend themselves against any sort of lies. Same goes for the military.
“Snowden will continue on for decades unless someone puts a contract out on the guy and gets to him. Any president...even a President Hillary in 2016...could wake up and find some disturbing news on her operations.”
He might have a fail-safe set to dump his entire inventory of data onto the web in the event of his demise.
I would guess if he doesn’t log on within a set period of time the info will be dispersed all over the world. Heck one of us might get an email from him with some very interesting information.
“I wonder if Snowden is for real or if he has been a Russian agent for the last six years.”
If he was a Russian agent you never would have heard his name. The Russians would have kept him in place working for the NSA and stealing secrets. Making all this information public doesn’t help the Russians at all.
I was a French linguist and a cryptanalyst working for the Navy Security Group ( think NSA wearing a naval uniform) between 1982-1986.
We were ordered NOT to intercept any U.S. comms. To do so was illegal.
Guess the US is trying to get someone else to off Snowden. This bunch just loves others to do their blood work.
Like a multitude of sites each primed to dump at a different set time unless rest ?
Bet there are people who only task right now is trying to dig out every internet connection he ever made.
But if he simply set up some of those anonymously in various ways....
Here’s hoping all the statists have endless nightmares.
True! But telling the foreign enemy how we do it, who helps us, what we know and what we don't know and how we will try to find out what we still don't know is the problem here.
Because those billion phone calls are coverted to data and searched as easily as you do google.
The fed gummint of the USSA has NOTHING to do with America and that disconnect seems to have started way earlier than most freeps realize.
If foreign dignitaries hock LOOGIES in the faces of our diplomats, well, I dont care at all; we embarrass them with our unsophisticated, democratic ways, and that’s fine because most of them are traitors who don’t know what America is all about anyway.
GOOD GOING EDWARD SNOWDEN.....!
Because those billion phone calls are coverted to data and searched as easily as you do google.
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We’ve seen how 0 always makes sure we get hurt when he messes up.
Snowden surely has set up a data dump with a dead man’s switch. Greenwald has arranged for his own security now and is dumping it piece by strategic piece.
Good for them. The truth shall make you free.
Snowden is at least an idiot.
He’s given the anti-America crowd a new forum for hating America.
It’s sickening that Congress, the Courts, and the Administration have escaped culpability to the alleged privacy violations. It also sucks to see so many blaming the gun for the crime.
Exactly!!! NSA expanded so much due to pressure from many contractors who are getting rich. They could not get richer unless the NSA greatly expanded its mission to collect all electronic and telephonic transmission that goes on within US borders and a lot that goes on beyond.
Also including those contractors who build the NSA facilities in Utah and Ft Mead Maryland. They want to get richer too.
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