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Edward Snowden Says He Sought Booz Allen Hamilton Job To Gather NSA Surveillance Evidence

Monday, June 24, 2013


Greenwald: "If your motive had been to harm the United States and help its enemies or if your motive had been personal material gain were there things you could have done with these documents to advance those goals that you didn't end up doing?"

Snowden: "Oh absolutely. Anyone in the positions of access with the technical capabilities that I had could suck out secrets, pass them on the open market to Russia; they always have an open door as we do. I had access to the full rosters of everyone working at the NSA, the entire intelligence community, and undercover assets all over the world. The locations of every station, we have what their missions are and so forth."

"If I had just wanted to harm the US? You could shut down the surveillance system in an afternoon. But that's not my intention. I think for anyone making that argument they need to think, if they were in my position and you live a privileged life, you're living in Hawaii, in paradise, and making a ton of money, 'What would it take you to leave everything behind?'"

"The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. People will see in the media all of these disclosures. They'll know the lengths that the government is going to grant themselves powers unilaterally to create greater control over American society and global society. But they won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things to force their representatives to actually take a stand in their interests."

"And the months ahead, the years ahead it's only going to get worse until eventually there will be a time where policies will change because the only thing that restricts the activities of the surveillance state are policy. Even our agreements with other sovereign governments, we consider that to be a stipulation of policy rather then a stipulation of law. And because of that a new leader will be elected, they'll find the switch, say that 'Because of the crisis, because of the dangers we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power.' And there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny."
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Edward Snowden Says He Sought Booz Allen Hamilton Job To Gather NSA Surveillance Evidence


Why don't you print the entire quote?:  

"I did not release them earlier because I don't want to simply dump huge amounts of documents without regard to their content," he said. "I have to screen everything before releasing it to journalists."

Snowden also signaled his intention to leak more of those documents at a later date.

"If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of U.S. network operations against their people should be published," he said.

 It's no different than what he said days ago:


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NSA Whistleblower Goes on Record -Reveals New Information & Names Culprits

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 RussTice claims key government figures, including president Obama and numerous others have been under surveillance.

“I had my hand literally on the paperwork,” he told PeterB. Collins. “They went after members of Congress, Senate and the House, especially on the intelligence and ArmedServices committees, the judicial committee, but they went after other ones, too. They went after lawyers, law firms, judges. They went after StateDepartment officials… They went after US international corporations, US banking firms, financial firms. They went after NGOs (non-governmental organizations) like the RedCross 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.  In some cases I was literally involved in the technology that was going after this stuff. When I said to KeithOlbermann, 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. It's incredible what NSA’s done. They turned themselves into a rogue agency that has JEdgarHoover 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 RichardRaznikov
http://lookingglass.blog.co.uk/2013/06/20/blackmail-16146634/
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Just one day after the Inauguration, RussellTice, the NSA whistleblower who originally participated in that agency's illegal warrantless wiretapping program, and revealed details of same to the NewYorkTimes' back in late 2005, has now come forward with more details that he'd been disinclined to release previously (he had been, after all, hounded by the FBI, subpoenaed by a grand jury, etc. after his original, heroic revelations.)

He spoke yesterday on MSNBC, revealing that American journalists were targeted by Bush's program which "had access to all Americans' communications." Please watch the remarkable video interview at right. Both that, and the text below, is from RAW STORY's coverage last night...

"The NationalSecurityAgency had access to all Americans' communications --- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications," Tice claimed. "It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications."

"In one of the operations that I was in, we looked at organizations, just supposedly so that we would not target them," Tice told Olbermann. "What I was finding out, though, is that the collection on those organizations was 24/7 and 365 days a year --- and it made no sense. ... I started to investigate that. That's about the time when they came after me to fire me."

When Olbermann pressed him for specifics, Tice offered, "An organization that was collected on were US news organizations and reporters and journalists."


"To what purpose?" Olbermann asked. "I mean, is there a file somewhere full of every email sent by all the reporters at the NewYorkTimes? Is there a recording somewhere of every conversation I had with my little nephew in upstate New York?"

Tice didn't answer directly, but simply stated, "If it was involved in this specific avenue of collection, it would be everything."



http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?_r=1

http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-bombshell-nsa-revelations-from-russell-tice/

http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=108

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/foreign-policy/war-terror/ex-intelligence-agent-russell-tice-says-us-not-telling-truth
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RussellTice offers additional, startling details on NSA's warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens...

As we've been predicting for some weeks ago, the flood of revelations that would be flowing forth after Obama was sworn in would likely make what we currently know about Bush Era illegalities and incompetence seem like barely the tip of the iceberg.

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Edward Snowden Going To Ecuador To Seek Asylum: WikiLeaks


Snowden is a turncoat and a traitor, who BROKE THE LAW HIMSELF.

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If what the NSA and CIA, et al, have been and are doing is legal (not Constitutional, but legal) then what's the problem with the American people knowing about it?

Everybody else seems to.
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Where were you when the Patriot Act was being debated, probably somewhere cheerleading, now trying to show fake outrage.

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Unlike you, I have a long paper trail on the record.  Your rant implies I'm somehow a Bushie, when anyone who has been here for longer than 20 minutes knows I'm an old OLD liberal Democrat who has worked for decades trying to hold back the fascist neocons and neolibs who have been controlling our government.  I spoke out against the Patriot Act when Joe Biden tried to get it passed into law in 1995.   Where were you?

Who are you?  How do you possibly defend a president who acts outside the law, renditioning, imprisoning and killing Americans without due process or any oversight?  
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Too rarely mentioned is the combination of nonviolence and idealism that has been integral to the courageous whistleblowing by Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning. Right now, one is on a perilous journey across the globe in search of political asylum, while the other is locked up in a prison and confined to a military trial excluding the human dimensions of the case. At a time of Big Brother and endless war, Snowden and Manning have bravely insisted that a truly better world is possible.
Meanwhile, top policymakers in Washington seem bent on running as much of the world as possible.
Their pursuit of Edward Snowden has evolved into a frenzied rage.

Those at the top of the U.S. government insist that Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning have betrayed it. But that’s backward. Putting its money on vast secrecy and military violence instead of democracy, the government has betrayed Snowden and Manning and the rest of us.

Trying to put a stop to all that secrecy and violence, we have no assurance of success. But continuing to try is a prerequisite for realistic hope.

A few months before the invasion of Iraq, looking out at Baghdad from an upper story of a hotel, I thought of something Albert Camus once wrote. “And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions.”

Edward Snowden’s honorable course has led him to this historic moment. The U.S. government is eager to pay him back with retribution and solitary. But many people in the United States and around the world are responding with love and solidarity.
 
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Please, you insult all that have a higher education.

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That would make me self-loathing, and I assure you, I'm hardly that.  Except maybe on days when I see the heroisim of someone like Snowden and have to scratch my head to recall the last time I acted with such courage.

You can keep running around like Henny Penny, saying Snowden's put lives in danger, yet you can't name one person that it's true about.  Snowden's not made any foreign policy, but your choice of Zbigniew Brezezinski as the north star on the matter tells me you've swallowed the Kool-Aid - You're a good little sock puppet.

Snowden has told us what our government is doing to us, after our government has denied doing it.
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Guilty until proven innocent?  That's not how we do things in this country, although I'm not surprised at your confusion in this matter given as how neocons and neolibs have been ratcheting up the disinformation games.  But unless you shake them off, you can't claim to be a patriotic, Constitution-loving American.
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