Julian Assange: "Obama 'Corrupted' The Presidency"

Exactly one year to the day after entering London’s Ecuadorian Embassy, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at the Obama administration Wednesday over the White House’s ongoing pursuit of leakers.

 “We’re seeing a shift from Bush to Obama,” insisted Assange. “Bush corrupted the presidency in his executive orders calling for mass seizure of telecommunications records from American companies like Verizon. To really corrupt the presidency you have to bring in an expert. You have to bring in a constitutional scholar. So Obama did it properly.”

http://rt.com/usa/assange-obama-snowden-elsberg-963/

The most intriguing fact is that the USA have laws to protect whistleblowers, these are called the false claim act (31 U.S.C §§ 3729–3733; (also known as the “Lincoln Law”, the “Informer’s Act”, or the “Qui Tam Statute”) this is a much older federal law than most people realize. Congress first passed the False Claims Act during the Civil War in 1863, in an attempt to stop dishonest contractors from selling the Union Army faulty supplies and provisions.

The state itself guarantees for the safety of the whistleblower the following is valid:

"Protecting Whistleblowers From Retaliation

Most whistleblowers in qui tam actions are reporting on fraud that has been committed by their employer or boss. If this employer suspends, demotes, threatens, or fires the person for actions related to their whistleblower lawsuit, subsection (h) of the False Claims Act allows whistleblowers to file a separate case against their employer. In retaliation lawsuits, any damages recovered are paid directly to the whistleblower. No percentage will go to the government."

So this means the USA are breaking their own laws on behalf of the fact that they are exposed to brake laws and commit crimes to humanity. 2 party justice - in this normal language this is called dictatorship without a justice system that works.

And now you know the reason why the USA cannot ask the UK to deliver Assange to them for treaty.  If they would they would immediately fall under this law - and - so they use Sweden as puppet to accuse Assange for sexual crimes. And Sweden is helping them out willingly. 

Bradley Manning is imprisoned because his military status.  For Ed Snowden, they will probably also send out some killers - or worse- a bunch of bad ass lawyers.

Why do we never hear anyone mention the False Claims Act, even attorneys who practice in this law?  More than a few of lawyers attending their Qui Tam conferences in D.C. when candidate Obama was just one of many running in the Democratic Party believe that he made it clear he understands this law (not all attorneys do) which, of course, makes his actions all the more disappointing. Alan Grayson practiced qui tam law before he became a congressman. His most famous case was Custer Battles, but he hasn't brought it up either.

Read more...

The Surveillance State: What To Say To People Who Say, "I've Got Nothing To Hide"

This should be widely shared. It looks like the massive potential of NSA to blackmail political figures, judges, lawyers, CEOs and etc. to manipulate the US domestic and foreign policies, judicial system, legislatures, media, corporations, banks and so on might have already done grave damages to achieve crucial military and corporate agendas. An NSA whistleblower Russ Tice claims key government figures, including president Obama and numerous others have been under surveillance.

“I had my hand literally on the paperwork,” he told Peter B. Collins. “They went after members of Congress, the Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence and armed services committees and the judicial committee, but they went after other ones, too. They went after lawyers and law firms and they went after judges. They went after State Department officials… They went after U.S. international corporations, U.S. banking firms and financial firms. They went after NGOs (non-governmental organizations) like the Red Cross and people like that, that go overseas and do humanitarian work…

“Don’t tell me there’s no abuse because I had this stuff in my hands, I looked at it, and in some cases I was literally involved in the technology that was going after this stuff. When I said to (Keith) Olbermann, my thing is high tech, the other thing is the dragnet… the terrestrial dragnet. Well, my specialty is outer space, I deal with satellites, everything that goes in and out of space, I did my spying, that’s how I found out about this.”

Question: this creates the potential for massive blackmail…

“Absolutely. I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on. I haven’t given you any names. This was in the summer of 2004. One of the papers I had in my hands was a bunch of numbers associated with a forty-something wanna-be Senator from Illinois, that’s who they went after…

“I can give you names of a bunch of different people they went after that I saw, the names and phone numbers of congress people and not only them, what looked like staff people, too, and not only their congressional offices, their home state offices. This thing is incredible what NSA’s done. They turned themselves into a rogue agency that has J. Edgar Hoover capabilities on a monstrous scale, on steroids.”

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-nsa-whistleblower-goes-on-record-reveals-new-information-names-culprits/

Blackmail by Richard Raznikov
http://lookingglass.blog.co.uk/2013/06/20/blackmail-16146634/

Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant
Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication

• Document one: procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons
• Document two: procedures used by NSA to minimise data collected from US persons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant

Read more...