Vladimir Putin: Edward Snowden Still In Moscow Airport Transit Zone, Won't Be Extradited

Has it really not occurred to you that the distribution of wealth, both here in the United States  and beyond that, around the world, and how the concentration of wealth has increased exponentially in the past few years, isn't just a craps shoot?  That it's the result of what these intelligence agencies are up to?  
I don't know why you would defend this system unless you were one of those getting paid off (politicians, bankers, et al).  

The richest 1% in the US aren't sharing their winnings with us.  They're imposing austerity, where we the peons people are picking up the tab for their corporate wars for resources while the rich and corporate are offshoring profits, and pushing more and more of us into poverty.  They're not creating jobs for us.  They're not shoring up our infrastructure.  They're putting the squeeze on us.  Making education farther out of our reach.  They're not making us safer from attacks.  By having so many people unemployed, particularly young men, they're actually manufacturing the circumstances from which home-grown radicals are born.
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Edward Snowden Going To Ecuador To Seek Asylum: WikiLeaks

Blackmail by RichardRaznikov


Do you remember back when BushCo was beating the drum for war against Iraq, he wanted the AUMF from Congress along with a UN seal of approval, do you recall that story about John Bolton having ordered intercepts on Colin Powell's phone calls? There was talk that Bolton was reporting back to Bush-Cheney that Powell was sabotaging their war effort with backdoor phone conversations with other nations' UN ambassadors. That's why you don't want an NSA capable of doing this to the People's representatives to Congress and the White House.

Connect NSA Wiretapping dots -- Bolton used NSA to spy on Powell - Democratic Underground


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Edward Snowden Going To Ecuador To Seek Asylum: WikiLeaks

"9/11!  9/11!  9/11!"

If I didn't know better I'd swear it was 9/12/01, BushCheney were still in office and we were preparing to go to war in Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq.

The same problem that existed back then, that enabled 19 men, mostly Saudis, to hijack 4 planes and fly them into the WTC exists today.  It wasn't a lack of intelligence but the failure of the government to act on it.  The proof we have is the Boston Marathon bombing just over two months ago.  US authorities were tipped to the Tarnaev brothers and did nothing.  

The massive surveillance apparatus over Americans has nothing to do with keeping Americans safe from attack.  That's really not what our government does, and if you'd ever lost a loved one through a terror attack you'd know that.  The only time the government gets involved is when it threatens commerce. Do you recall Bush in the first days after 9/11?  "Go shopping".  

What's really going on - 

Another NSA whistleblower RussTice claims key government figures, including president Obama and numerous others have been under surveillance. A massive potential exists 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. 

“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.  I had my hand literally on the paperwork. 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…"

“I can give you names of a bunch of different people they went after that I saw, the names, phone numbers of congress people and not only them, what looked like staff people, too......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.”

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

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

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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