Edward Snowden

In Raucous Senate Hearing, Clapper Tells Snowden To Return Documents

January 31, 2014 Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Surveillance

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, has issued a blistering condemnation of Edward Snowden, calling the surveillance disclosures published by the Guardian and other news outlets a “perfect storm” that would endanger American lives. Testifying before a rare and unusually raucous public session of the Senate intelligence committee that saw yet another evolution in the Obama administration’s defense of bulk domestic phone records collection, Clapper called on “Snowden and his accomplices” to return the documents the former National Security Agency contractor took, in order to minimize what he called the “profound damage that his disclosures have caused and continued to cause”.

Israel Had Access to Raw NSA Data

January 30, 2014 Ami Dor-On, www.i-hls.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Israel, NSA

An unprecedented MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) allowing Israel free access to raw data collected by the NSA, including all U.S. civilian communications, was secretly signed in March 2009 between the NSA and the Israeli intelligence gathering unit 8200, as was revealed earlier this year. A summary of the MOU was published in the British Guardian, based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The agreement gives Israel free access to all of the information gathered by the NSA, with no names or details removed – even those which may involve U.S. citizens. The signing was authorized by President Barack Obama, and the Israeli signatory was the 8200 commander, whose identity was kept secret for security reason. The terms and activities mentioned in the MOU are a testament to the depth of the cooperation between the Israeli and American intelligence community, despite claims by a top NSA official that “Israel is spying on the U.S.”

Snowden: NSA Involved In Industrial Sabotage

January 27, 2014 Reuters, www.theguardian.com Educate! Corporatism, Edward Snowden, NSA, Surveillance

“If there's information at Siemens that's beneficial to US national interests – even if it doesn't have anything to do with national security – then they'll take that information nevertheless,” Snowden said in the interview conducted in Russia, where Snowden has claimed asylum. Snowden also told the German public broadcasting network he no longer had possession of any documents or information on NSA activities and had turned everything over to select journalists. He said he did not have any control over the publication of the information. Questions about US government spying on civilians and foreign officials arose last June, when Snowden leaked documents outlining the widespread collection of telephone records and email to media outlets including the Guardian.

Russia Plans To Extend Snowden Asylum

January 25, 2014 Michael J. de la Merced, www.nytimes.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Russia

Russia plans to extend its offer of asylum to Edward J. Snowden beyond August, a Russian lawmaker said Friday at the World Economic Forum here. The lawmaker, Aleksei K. Pushkov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Russia’s lower house of Parliament, hinted during a panel discussion that the extension of temporary refugee status for Mr. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, might be indefinite. “He will not be sent out of Russia,” Mr. Pushkov said. “It will be up to Snowden.” He added that Mr. Snowden’s father believes his son could not get a fair trial in the United States. Mr. Pushkov made his comments came against a backdrop of broad criticism of the American spying programs that have come to light since the summer.

Holder Opens Door To Plea Deal With Snowden

January 24, 2014 Kevin Zeese, www.theguardian.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Edward Snowden, NSA

Yesterday, Edward Snowden held a live chat on the Free Snowden website that is supporting his legal defense where he said that "Returning to the US, I think, is the best resolution for the government, the public, and myself, but it’s unfortunately not possible in the face of current whistleblower protection laws...." Attorney General Holder, while saying he prefers to call Snowden a defendant rather than a whistleblower also told MSNBC that he “would engage in conversation” with Snowden if he accepted responsibility for leaking government secrets. Of course, Snowden has never denied leaking the documents so that is not at issue. Holder says that full clemency “would be going too far." Obama slightly cracked open the door for clemency saying in a New Yorker profile “I do not have a yes/no answer on clemency for Edward Snowden. This is an active case, where charges have been brought.”

Snowden Requesting Russian Protection After Threats

January 22, 2014 Ilya Arkhipov, www.bloomberg.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Russia

Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. contractor residing in Russia under temporary asylum, is appealing to the local government for protection after receiving threats against his life, his lawyer in Moscow said. “He has no other option but to seek protection and ask for the situation to be cleared up,” Anatoly Kucherena said by phone today. “There are worries and alarm about statements and actions on the part of some officials.”

Edward Snowden to Make Live Appearence via Web

January 22, 2014 Free Snowden, freesnowden.is Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

Edward Snowden will be answering questions submitted by the public on his official support site, freesnowden.is, this Thursday 23 January at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST. The support site is run by The Courage Foundation and is the only endorsed Snowden Defence Fund. This is the first Snowden live chat since June 2013 and will last for an hour starting at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST. Questions can be submitted on twitter on the day of the event using the #AskSnowden hashtag. Edward Snowden’s responses will appear at http://www.freesnowden.is/asksnowden The live chat comes exactly a week after US President Barack Obama gave an address in response to the public concerns raised by Edward Snowden’s revelations about US surveillance practices. In the live chat, Edward Snowden is expected to give his first reaction to the President’s speech. Courage (formerly the Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund) is a trust, audited by accountants Derek Rothera & Company in the UK, for the purpose of providing legal defence and campaign aid to journalistic sources. It is overseen by an unremunerated committee of trustees. Edward Snowden is its first recipient. The freesnowden.is website was commissioned by the trustees of Courage to provide information on the threats Edward Snowden faces and what can be done to support him, and details all revelations made to date in a convenient central archive.

Obama Tries To Make NSA Spying Look Better — Fails

January 18, 2014 Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Surveillance

Appearing on a MSNBC morning news show ahead of President Obama's Friday speech on National Security Agency surveillance reforms, former NSA chief Michael Hayden explained that the president's goal for the day would not be to announce real reforms that would change the behavior of the intelligence community, but suggested a different purpose. Obama's mission for the public address, said Hayden on Morning Joe, would not be to change what the NSA has been doing, but rather, he said, "to make people more comfortable about what it is that the intelligence agencies are doing." “I don’t know that American intelligence agencies are going to be doing a whole lot of things different in a week, a month, or a year than what they are doing right now,” he said. Following Obama's speech, delivered at the Department of Justice later in the morning, critics of the policy announcements it contained were finding reasons to agree (at least in this part) with Hayden, a man who supports the agency's bulk collection of American communications and who led the agency under President George W. Bush.

On Secrecy, Oaths, and Edward Snowden

January 10, 2014 Daniel Ellsberg, www.pressfreedomfoundation.org Educate! Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, NSA

Snowden did not take an oath of secrecy. Such an oath doesn't exist (look up "oath" on the web). Rather he—and I—broke an agreement (known as Standard Form 312) which was a condition of employment. It provides for civil or administrative penalties (e.g., losing a clearance or a job) for disclosing classified information: serious enough to keep nearly everyone quiet about...anything classified, no matter how illegal or dangerous. The reason this matters is that Snowden, as he said to Gellman and as I've repeatedly said, did take a real "oath," just one oath, the same oath that every official in the government and every Congressperson takes as an oath of office. He and they "swore" ("or affirmed") "to support and defend the Constitution of the U.S., against all enemies, foreign and domestic." They did not swear to support and defend or obey the President, or to keep secrets. But to support and defend, among other elements of the Constitution, the First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments in the Bill of Rights, and Article I, section 8, on war powers. That's the oath that, as Snowden correctly said to Gellman, he upheld (as I would say I eventually did) and that Clapper and Alexander broke (along with most members of Congress).

The NSA Plays Mad King George in This Revolution

January 8, 2014 Robert Scheer, www.truthdig.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

It’s the revolt of the geeks. Edward Snowden is John Peter Zenger digitized, a post-Internet free-press hero soaring above the security obsessions of the past decade to assert the inalienable requirements of individual sovereignty in a wired world. It was Zenger whose journalistic efforts to expose the wrongdoing of a colonial governor appointed by the crown landed him in jail facing the charge of “seditious libel,” quite similar to that brought against Snowden for exposing the NSA’s illegal spying. Their defense is the same: True patriotism demands a vigilant confrontation with government infamy. “I know not what reason is,” Zenger published in his defense back in 1734, “if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.” After Zenger spent more than eight months in jail, a jury of his peers exonerated him and his cry for an unfettered free press came to be enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

FBI Burglars Praise Edward Snowden – And His Decision To Flee

January 8, 2014 Matt Sledge, www.huffingtonpost.org Educate! COINTELPRO, Edward Snowden

The activists who stole FBI documents exposing widespread, illegal domestic surveillance in 1971 say Edward Snowden did the right thing in fleeing the country instead of awaiting punishment for leaking sensitive NSA files. "How would that have helped in the purpose for which Edward Snowden acted?" asked John Raines, who revealed his role in the burglary for the first time on Tuesday. "How would that have helped if we had stood around?" The actions of Raines, an 80-year-old retired Temple University professor, and seven other anti-war activists revealed a vast effort under FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to surveil and intimidate law-abiding dissidents during the Vietnam era. The files they pilfered from a field office in Media, Pa., and then sent to journalists helped spur sweeping intelligence reforms under the 1970s-era Church Committee.

The Tasks Of The People-Powered Movement For 2014

January 5, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Strategize! Chelsea Manning, Climate Change, Corporatism, Democracy, Edward Snowden, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Fracking, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Health Care, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, NSA, Occupy, Solidarity, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

In this stage of movement development, which can take many years, the primary task of the people-powered social movement is to build national consensus through broad and deep grassroots organizing. The power holders are currently in a crisis management mode. They continue to defend their policies while shifting positions and taking countermeasures to undermine people power. During this stage public opinion is shifting, majorities oppose the current situation and are beginning to see that new alternative solutions must be put in place. People-powered activists are in a battle with the power holders for the hearts and minds of super-majorities of the people. We ended our last article with a key point that we need to highlight here: our goal is to build a mass movement, which has the support of super-majorities of Americans and has mobilized up to 3.5% of the population. Therefore, the target of our protests is not the government or a corporation, the target is the people: to educate and mobilize them. We want to show that there is an effective movement speaking to the people’s concerns and putting forth views that they support. We protest the power holders to expose their actions but do not expect them to be capable of addressing our concerns adequately in this stage.

Government Accountability Project On Edward Snowden

January 4, 2014 Staff, www.whistleblower.org Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Whistleblowers

GAP Statement on Edward Snowden and NSA Domestic Surveillance: In June 2013, the American public learned conclusively about the wholesale surveillance of virtually all Americans through secretive programs by the National Security Agency (NSA) that continue to be implemented today. These programs collect the phone records, email exchanges, and internet histories of people all over the world who would have no knowledge of this were it not for the disclosures of former federal contractor Edward Snowden. As legal counsel to Snowden as well as the nation's leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) would like to make its position clear on Edward Snowden, the criminalization of whistleblowers and the pattern of illegal activity by the NSA.

WikiLeaks: Defeating The Conspiracy Of Governance

January 3, 2014 Nozomi Hayase, www.roarmag.org Educate! Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Jeremy Hammond, Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, Wikileaks

Three years after WikiLeaks came to public prominence, where are we with the equation in Assange’s Conspiracy as Governance? Has it been tested and its solution enacted? As leaked documents continue to shed light on the darkness of the world, illegal wars, drone attacks, bankster heists and corporate dirty deals continue. Yet thanks to Manning, we now have a clearer picture what modern war really looks like and the extent to which the military-industrial complex has morally bankruptcy itself. Thanks to Hammond, we are more aware of the collusion of governments and corporations in a network of spying on activists. Thanks to Snowden’s NSA files, we are now only beginning to see the latent tyranny of an out-of-control surveillance state. 2013 was the year that we saw the courage of individuals who speak truth to power become truly contagious. There is no doubt that in this past year, WikiLeaks and other budding organizations have helped the world move one step closer toward a more humane form of self-governance.

Public Tide Turning In Snowden’s Favor?

January 2, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA

"When someone reveals that government officials have routinely and deliberately broken the law, that person should not face life in prison at the hands of the same government. " Will the above statement concluding a New York Times editorial on Edward Snowden become the consensus in the United States? Will President Obama have the courage, to do as the Guardian wrote, "We hope that calm heads within the present administration are working on a strategy to allow Mr Snowden to return to the US with dignity, and the president to use his executive powers to treat him humanely and in a manner that would be a shining example about the value of whistleblowers and of free speech itself." It is going to take increasing pressure on President Obama and members of Congress to get Edward Snowden the justice he deserves. There is no question the charges should be withdrawn and the president should use his powers to pardon Snowden, but that will only happen if the social-political movement of the United States makes it happen. Our task is clear and we can build the kind of pressure needed to protect Edward Snowden.

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