Posted on 06/09/2013 12:16:55 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
A 29-year-old former CIA worker and current defense contractor employee has come forward as the source of the National Security Agency leaks to The Guardian newspaper:
The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.
The Guardian, after several days of interviews, is revealing his identity at his request. From the moment he decided to disclose numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to opt for the protection of anonymity. “I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong,” he said.
Snowden will go down in history as one of America’s most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning. He is responsible for handing over material from one of the world’s most secretive organisations – the NSA.
In a note accompanying the first set of documents he provided, he wrote: “I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions,” but “I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.”
Read the full report in The Guardian.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
probably is ~ honest people ~ and you? do you have any credentials about which anyone should be concerned? or, are you just fat dumb and happy sitting there in Peking counting the hours until your boys put an end to this guy before he tells about you?
Tell me, do you find mafia snitches to me morally reprehensible? They took a blood oath afterall.
They joined the “family”, but their [lack of] conscience wasn’t quite up to snuff. It is precisely people like you that embolden these organizations to abuse the law. I suppose you also support the IRS targeting conservative groups? Those IRS whistleblowers are unpatriotic!!! My country right or wrong, amirite?
Actually, Ruston, LA 71270. 227 Baxter Road to be precise. (318) 255-1157. What’s your real name and where do you live?
Have you actually READ the Guardian report about this network?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining
It is clearly directed overseas, in particular towards countries like Iran. They use US internet records to assist in the investigation, with court orders, because that’s what they can get access to.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/07/the_real_story_of_my_country_r.html ~ another misuse of the ‘my country’ quote. You do understand that using it the way you are using it identifies you as an anti Nixon patriot hater leftover from the late 60s and early 70s.
Snowden meet Manning. Wonder what Booz Allen has to say?
So about Aurora and Newtown,...
Hey, I’m with you. You don’t have to start threatening me with violence. The government should be able to do whatever they want to he subjects as long as they say its for their own good.
He left the CIA in 2009 in order to take his first job working for a private contractor that assigned him to a functioning NSA facility, stationed on a military base in Japan. It was then, he said, that he "watched as Obama advanced the very policies that I thought would be reined in", and as a result, "I got hardened."...
...Over the next three years, he learned just how all-consuming the NSA's surveillance activities were, claiming "they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them"....
...he believe[s] that the value of the internet, along with basic privacy, is being rapidly destroyed by ubiquitous surveillance. "I don't see myself as a hero," he said, "because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity."
Once he reached the conclusion that the NSA's surveillance net would soon be irrevocable, he said it was just a matter of time before he chose to act. "What they're doing" poses "an existential threat to democracy", he said....
...For him, it is a matter of principle. "The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to," he said.
So those gas chambers at Buchenwald really were showers?
They're still hiding their use of Hassan as a source of information ~ probably because he murdered 14 people.
I"d imagine the Post expose interfered with whatever intelligence operation was working to reveal that Hassan was a bad apple.
I was hoping he would publish some texts collected from the Blackberry before he went public.
Hey, now I remember you. You’ve not liked my comments before. You’re the guy that spent decades at the post office. Yeah, you’ve always been a gov. bootlicker.
Maybe they’ll give you a job licking the boots of your overlords before you get too old and senile to give a good lickdown.
Who? Is safe in these times?
Another article states that he never expects to see home again.
The Players are a bit more complicated than Commies vs US.
Boy, the last few days of ‘controversies’ are really bringing the mobies out of the woodwork!
I only wish he’d looked into the camera, winked, and said ‘Hillary, I’d pass on running if I were you.’
The crickets are deafening.....or maybe it’s the cicadas.
That's the first function of government.
To be a “good German” did you have to be a whistle-blower? Or could you be classified that way if you turned a blind eye to the exterminations, but did not actually participate?
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