This should be interesting, to say the least ...
Glenn Greenwald, one of the reporters at the heart of chronicling the document dump of Edward Snowden of National Security Agency via U.K. press, now says he's set to publish his most dramatic piece yet: The names of those in the United States targeted by the NSA.
"One of the big questions when is comes to domestic spying is, 'Who have been the NSA's specific targets?' Are they political critics and dissidents and activists? Are they genuinely people we'd regard as terrorists? What are the metrics and calculations that go into choosing those targets and what is done with the surveillance that is conducted? Those are the kinds of questions that I want to still answer," Greenwald said, to The Sunday Times of London.
Greenwald also pointed to the failures of the NSA to catch Mr. Snowden during his download and theft of 1.7 million documents, and said that's further evidence of the government's inability to guarantee data security.
"There is this genuinely menacing [spy] system and at the same time, [they] are really inept about how they operate it," he said, Newsmax reported. "Not only was he out there under their noses downloading huge amounts of documents without being detracted, but to this day, they're incapable of finding out what he took."
Greenwald, who's promoting his new book, "No Place to Hide," said the list will be published on The Intercept, the website he established after leaving The Guardian.
My take...In regard to your comments about Snowden on Coast, I think you're the coward, frankly. How arrogant of you to cast aspersions of cowardice against Snowden because in your words, he didn't "hang around" after revealing classified information that without a doubt detailed illegal acts being committed by the government. Have YOU ever served your country, as he did? Nah...you wrote a book. You have a blog. Easy for you to take pot shots and say that he should have hung around in the face of revealing such damning information and not knowing whether you will just be criminally prosecuted, water boarded or otherwise tortured, disappeared quietly to some third world CIA prison and executed. No, you didn't have to face such possibilities, to leave your homeland and go on the run, to leave your family and girlfriend behind, your possessions, any sense of security, in some less than hospitable lands, owning NOTHING, not knowing if you will ever be welcome home again. He showed more courage in facing that and committing to those information releases that you will ever muster in your wildest daydream. How dare you even open your mouth as if you have a take that's worth anything. That man gave up all he had and had to face all of that for what he disclosed, and you think you have insights, not having to face any such thing as your reality.
ReplyDeleteFurther, whether YOU think anything that damning or useful was revealed or not is not the issue. You are obviously under-informed. What you think you know of NSA spying on Americans is a far cry from having is confirmed in document releases from a whistle blower. Such a thing is a blatantly unlawful act, so I have to wonder whether you are genuine either.
Let us hope Snowden does "reveal anymore than he knows." He made his bed of nails and now he has to lie on it. He made overtures to to a South American country and its president and the American spying activities there in order to move there from cold Moscow. No doubt China(Hong Kong) didn't want him and now 4 Chinese nationals are accused in America of stealing sensitive corporate and government information. Whether Mr. Snowden becomes a hero, whistleblower, or a liability, only time will tell. One thing for sure, our country is at a divided crossroad and terrorism against the United States will always be a constant. Having "served"? his country is another thing.
Deletethey also serve who only stand and hate
DeleteSnowden should have been Time magazine's Man of the Year. While some suspected this from the govt hacks, none of us suspected the deep and wide range and total trampling of our Constitutional rights against search and seizure before Mr Snowden made the information public. Those who excoriate him would have made perfect Tories while the real patriots were fighting against the Brits for our freedom.
kind of a play on the old "my country, rights are gone"
I have to agree with Anonymous above. She seemed to be talking out of both sides of her mouth last night. She condemns Michelle Obama encouraging people to eat better and get off their lard-laden butts but shrugs off the NSA secretly spying on every citizen like it's no big deal. While I certainly agree with her premise that we are moving into a police state, she seems to have blinders on when it comes to certain issues. Probably a political bias.
ReplyDeleteOF COURSE, it's a political bias. It's also called having your cake and not having to eat it, too, as well. No one ever wants to be spied on, but as i tell everyone, did you ever think that once you tapped on the Internet for the very first time that no one will ever see what sites you view much less who you text on your cell phone? The NSA has no scruples of shame whatsoever. One might as well wean themselves offline and shed the mobile and live in a cave in the backcountry if they don't want Uncle Sam to monitor them, but alas that's too late.
DeleteTime magazine? Lmao! Never in a million. Time is globalist NWO CFR ridden rag. Posessesion of too many time rags is sure sign of sub zero iq
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