"Shoot him, Elizabeth!"
Posted on 05/28/2014 7:46:03 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
Edward J. Snowden says he was not merely a “low-level analyst” writing computer code for American spies, as President Obama and other administration officials have portrayed him. Instead, he says, he was a trained spy who worked under assumed names overseas for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.
“I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word in that I lived and worked undercover overseas — pretending to work in a job that I’m not — and even being assigned a name that was not mine,” Mr. Snowden told Brian Williams of NBC News, in an excerpt released in advance of the full interview.
“They’re trying to use one position that I’ve had in a career here or there to distract from the totality of my experience,” he said, “which is that I’ve worked for the Central Intelligence Agency undercover overseas, I’ve worked for the National Security Agency undercover overseas and I’ve worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency as a lecturer at the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy, where I developed sources and methods for keeping our information and people secure in the most hostile and dangerous environments around the world.”
“The reality is I never intended to end up in Russia,” he said in a second excerpt broadcast on NBC’s “Today Show.” “I had a flight booked to Cuba onwards to Latin America, and I was stopped because the United States government decided to revoke my passport and trap me in Moscow Airport. So when people ask why are you in Russia, I say, ‘Please ask the State Department.' ”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
[The Further Adventures Of Nick Danger]
(fog horn)
ANNOUNCER
Los Angeles... He walks again by night...
NICK
(whistles)
ANNOUNCER
Out of the fog, into the smog...
NICK
(cough, cough)
ANNOUNCER
Relentlessly... ruthlessly...
NICK
I wonder where Ruth is?
ANNOUNCER
…doggedly… (bark bark)
NICK
Eh, get away from me…
ANNOUNCER
... towards his weekly meeting with... the unknown. At 4th and Drucker he turns left, at Drucker and 4th he turns right, he crosses MacArthur Park and walks into a great sandstone building. (smack)
NICK
Oh, my nose!
ANNOUNCER
Groping for the door he steps inside... (door opens/closes) (phone rings until pick up) (13 steps) climbs the 13 steps to his office, he walks in (walking/door opens)... he’s ready for mystery, (door closes/walking) he’s ready for excitement... he’s ready for anything, he’s...
NICK
(ends whistling) (pick up phone/one more ring) Nick Danger, Third Eye...
VOICE
(phone voice) I, uh, wanna order a pizza to go and no anchovies...
NICK
No anchovies? You’ve got the wrong man, I spell my name...Danger. (phone hangup)
VOICE
(phone voice) What?
ANNOUNCER
(organ) The makers of Fantastic Cigarettes, long in the leaf and short in the can, bring you another true story from the tattered casebook of Nick Danger, Third Eye. Let’s join him now in the adventure we call... Cut ‘em Off at the Past! (organ fwah)
NICK
Let’s get down to business. (walk) Uncross those beautiful stems of yours, baby, here’s the case I call number 666. It all began innocently enough on Tuesday. I was sitting in my office on that drizzly afternoon listening to the monotonous staccato of rain on my desktop and reading my name on the glass of my office door. “Regnad Kcin”. My secretary lay snoring on the floor (snores) her long, beautiful gams pinioned under the couch. I didn’t hear him enter, (creaky door/walking) but my nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume... Pyramid Patchouli. There was only one joker in L.A. sensitive enough to wear that scent and I had to find out who he was.
ROCKY
Good afternoon, Mr.... Danger. I’m Rocky Rococo.
[more on the web... Firesign Theatre]
Remember, he threw his medals over the fence and testified before Congress calling us Vietnam vets barbarians, or some thing like that.
Question. Does Kerry or any of the present administration love this Country--or do they hate it?
I don't think there is any question which part they do.
"Shoot him, Elizabeth!"
I wouldn’t call him a patriot-probably a really pissed off employee turned whistleblower-and he exposed something that finally got a lot of people focused on their rights, which is a very good thing.
I’m sure Snowden wants to be out of Russia any way he can as long as it doesn’t involve death or imprisonment-it is cold and spartan there, especially since Putin pulls the strings-it is much warmer and likely friendlier someplace in S. America...
But unless this is some alternate universe, he was not a spy anywhere but in his own fantasies...
I for one agree with you completely. Government snooping has gone way beyond what the founding fathers could have even imagined. If one doesn’t believe that the Obama administration is using covert info collected in the name of fighting terrorism for political purposes they are complete fools. What real sacrifices have the Nancy Boys calling for Snowden’s head... made to ensure that our kids and grandkids will be living in a free republic? In most cases... absolutely nothing!
All it takes for our freedom to go away is for those of us who know better to stand idly by while tyranny takes over. Mr. Snowden found himself in a position where he was able to help bring these abuses to the attention of patriots everywhere. And we have all these one dimensional thinkers calling for his head? What type of fantasy world are they living in?
Was he wearing the cap the CIA agent gave him in Cambodia? It’s the only way I can believe him.
No, let ME get this straight....if the Chinese or Putin had revealed this information (and they may actually be behind this), then you’d call them patriots too?
Any technician who worked for ITT World Communications knew we monitored international traffic. If he had only revealed how the average U.S. smuck was being spied on, do you really believe the internation community would have said, “Well, our secrets are safe!”
What continues to amaze me is how divided and fractured our little community at FR continues to be. We fight over everything..to prep or not to prep...to support anyone that runs against a Democrat or only vote for the pure...and then argue about what is pure.
While you may appreciate the information coming out, it DOESN’t make him a patriot
I wonder how long this guy has spent with Russian Intelligence, et al?
“Snowden is a patriot. He gave up a comfortable life when he exposed the NSA for what it is”
Disagree.
He is a coward and a traitor.
If he was truly concerned he could have run it up the chain, taken it to the IG, and if that didn’t work, to his Senator or Congressman (probably the best avenue).
He didn’t try any of that.
He ran.
He didn’t stand there bravely and take the spears for his “courage.”
A patriot means not backing down, being willing to pay the price for standing on your principles and for protecting the rights of Americans.
Heck, if he just stayed and acted like a man and bravely took his hits for releasing to the press I could respect him for that.
Instead, he ran and is now living comfortably in Russia.
Being a patriot does not mean running away and cowering with sworn enemies.
“I’m one of those who believes that Snowden provided a great service to the US. Until his disclosures happened, anyone under the age of 40 (or so) had no concern about how much the gov spies on every citizen.”
If you get a paperback copy of the 1982 book “The Puzzle Palace” you will find that US citizens who had been able to escape being fed “news” and “history” by the MSM already knew or strongly suspected or could project in broad terms most of Snowden’s revelations as new technology has come available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace
IMO Snowden is profoundly naïve or a traitorous double agent who is being too cute by half. “I accidentally ended up first in China and then in Russia on the way to Venezuela by way of Cuba.”
Here is a book that you will find very interesting, “Black List” by Brad Thor.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-List-Thriller-Brad-Thor/dp/1439192987/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0
“All of the technology contained in this novel is based upon systems currently being deployed, or in the final stages of development, by the United States government and its partners.”
... and thus begins `Black List’ by Brad Thor.
in full agreement with you.
Sad, isn’t it.
He specifically leaked that we had Angela Merkel’s phone tapped and were listening in on her calls. A bit beyond what a typical ITT tech knew, doncha think?
And I’m sure that Putin took him in for information that was known by every ITT tech, right?
006.3. Licensed to talk.
What is your opinion of all of the survivors of the Bengazi attack that have refused to go public. Are they cowards or patriots for remaining silent?
Snowden is not a traitor-he put out info that we all should have been smart enough to know the Obamamafia was collecting, but were too glazed to see it.
If an angry private sector employee leaked documents that showed the company had access to supposedly private info about stockholders and customers, it would be the same-they would get pissed off, the company would be busted at wrongdoing, file criminal theft charges, and someone would call him an industrial spy, and worse for embarrassing them and hurting their profit margin...
The practice of phone taps has been available since the phone was invented. You could listen in on the old “party lines” to your neighbor. The old patch cord operators could monitor the calls. The technology has improved what can be done. The government has deemed what will be done. And it appears they have deemed they will do whatever they want.
There is a difference between what is now possible yet completely unconstitutional.
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