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Plea deal for bail-jumping Assange Finally, after over a decade of high drama, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faced justice. In a courtroom far, far away — in Saipan, of all places — he pleaded guilty to one felony charge of violating the Espionage Act. According to a plea deal with the US government, the court… Read more.
Is Putin Recruiting Edward Snowden Edward Snowden petitioned President Putin for over ten years to grant him Russian citizenship. Putin suddenly approved his petition. Only one thing explains him doing so. He wants to use Snowden as his poster boy to mobilize more Russians as cannon fodder in Ukraine. After all, Putin could point to this American’s… Read more.
Edward Snowden is declaring vindication. I’m still a critic, but I can’t blame him. Seven years after the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended… Read more.
I’ve been calling for the United States to prosecute Snowden from the day news broke about his NSA theft. Commentaries like “Complaints about NSA Spying Are Schizophrenic … and Misguided,” June 8, 2013, “I Spy, You Spy, We All Spy,” July 2, 2013, and “From Spycraft to Stagecraft, Snowden Debuts as Putin’s Useful Idiot,” April… Read more.
Edward Snowden made news this week with a plea for a presidential pardon that was as arrogant as it was pitiful. I have taken a lot of flak over the years for repeatedly denouncing him. Here are excerpts from just three of the commentaries I’ve written in this regard. __________________ From “Complaints about NSA Spying… Read more.
Julian Assange must feel like he’s in Heaven. Which, of course, is ironic considering he’s actually in the first circle of Hell (aka Dante’s Limbo). You’d never know it from his TV interviews, but he has been hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012. That’s when he fled there to avoid… Read more.
So why are news organizations still portraying him as a hero instead of a zero (aka traitor)? Britain has been forced to move some of its spies after Russia and China accessed the top-secret raft of documents taken by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, British media reported. The BBC and the Sunday Times cited… Read more.
I sounded real alarms about private companies spying years before Edward Snowden sounded false alarms about government spying. . Here, for example, is what I wrote in “Beware: Google Declares ‘Nothing’s Private,’” December 8, 2009. ____________________ You’d better pray you are never prosecuted or sued for anything. Because not only Big Brother but even your civil… Read more.
A Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden said on Tuesday the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government’s mass surveillance programs was working with American and German lawyers to return home. ‘I won’t keep it secret … he wants to return back home.’ (Reuters, March 3, 2015) Well, that didn’t take… Read more.
I have written many commentaries denouncing Edward Snowden as more traitor than hero for leaking NSA secrets. Here are illustrative excerpts from two of them. From “Judge Ruling on NSA Spying…,” December 18, 2013. __________________ I too would be championing Snowden’s professed cause if he had taken his treasure trove of NSA secrets to a… Read more.
