Edward Snowden

Ecuador to US: We Won’t Be ‘Blackmailed’ over Snowden

June 29, 2013 B y Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org Resist! Ecuador, Edward Snowden

At a government press conference held in Quito, officials said the US was employing international economic "blackmail" in its attempts to obtain NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, but that such threats would not work. Ecuador indicated its offer of 'human rights assistance' to the US could be used to help address its recent problems with torture, illegal executions, and the attack on the privacy of its citizens. Threats to not renew trade preferences were met with Ecuador nullification of those threats by proactively cancelling the trade agreement."Ecuador unilaterally and irrevocably renounces these preferential customs tariff rights," government spokesman Fernando Alvarado said at the news conference.

The Response to Snowden’s Leak Ignores the Reality of Political Repression

June 29, 2013 Kate Epstein, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Democracy, Edward Snowden, NSA, Wars and Militarism

Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about the breadth and scope of the surveillance-industrial complex brought the issue to the forefront, forcing everyone to confront the stark realities of disappearing privacy and diminishing liberties. Since 9/11, despite a major recession, we have continued to feed the military-industrial complex whatever it can gobble up, and the trend shows no signs of stopping. The question we are faced with is this: Will we take a stand against the expansion of executive power, the stripping of our civil liberties, and the blatant political repression of our post-9/11 world gone mad, or will we wait passively until, as Justice Jackson warned, it’s too late?

Popular Resistance Newsletter – The Paradox of Power

June 27, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Edward Snowden, Environment, Guantanamo Bay, NSA, Police abuse, Türkiye

On Wednesday morning, attorney Lynne Stewart’s compassionate release from prison was denied. Stewart is suffering from breast cancer. Her husband, Ralph Poynter, stood vigil in DC to push for a decision, and then the decision came, with a result they did not want to hear. Stewart should not be in prison at all for her act of assisting her client with a press statement, but she continues to serve a 10 year sentence. By her grace and strength Stewart turned a seemingly devastating decision into a victory.

I Knew Snowden. And He’s Not The Story.

June 26, 2013 Colin Lee, www.medium.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA

The technology that the NSA now wields far exceeds Senator Church’s most excessive dreams of a surveillance state. Four whistleblowers, William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe, Thomas Drake, and Edward Snowden each separately risked their careers at the NSA. This is clear proof that their own employees find their activity deeply troubling and likely unconstitutional. Others may be afraid to speak up for fear of losing their income. A federal FISA court has also declared parts of the programs unconstitutional. Congress and the President should have taken action earlier so that these whistleblowers did not feel the need to go public with potentially risky information.

Greenwald: Snowden’s Files Are Out There if ‘Anything Happens’ to Him

June 25, 2013 Eli Lake, www.thedailybeast.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA

Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who Snowden first contacted in February, told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that Snowden “has taken extreme precautions to make sure many different people around the world have these archives to insure the stories will inevitably be published.” Greenwald added that the people in possession of these files “cannot access them yet because they are highly encrypted and they do not have the passwords.” But, Greenwald said, “if anything happens at all to Edward Snowden, he told me he has arranged for them to get access to the full archives.” The fact that Snowden has made digital copies of the documents he accessed while working at the NSA poses a new challenge to the U.S. intelligence community that has scrambled in recent days to recover them and assess the full damage of the breach.

Edward Snowden in Moscow Airport Transit Lounge

June 25, 2013 Miriam Elder and Jonathan Kaiman, www.guardian.co.uk Educate! Edward Snowden

It said it had taken the issue up with Washington. "Not only did the US authorities not give us an explanation and apology, it instead expressed dissatisfaction at the Hong Kong special administrative region for handling things in accordance with law," wrote Wang Xinjun, a researcher at the Academy of Military Science in the People's Daily commentary. "In a sense, the United States has gone from a 'model of human rights' to 'an eavesdropper on personal privacy', the 'manipulator' of the centralised power over the international internet, and the mad 'invader' of other countries' networks," the People's Daily said.

David Gregory vs. Glenn Greenwald. Who is the Journalist?

June 24, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.com Educate! Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, NSA

We should consider the exchange between Glenn Greenwald and David Gregory on Meet The Press yesterday. Of all of the questions David Gregory could have asked Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the story of whistleblower Edward Snowden and the biggest leak in NSA history, that in fact the United States government was collecting phone records on an ongoing, daily basis of millions upon millions (if not all) of its citizens, Gregory choose to ask Greenwald this dozy: "to the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movement, why should you Mr. Greenwald be charged with a crime?" The question, Greenwald's response, and Gregory's rebuttal, like a boxer stuck in a corner waiting for the bell to end the round and save him, are worth closer examination.

WikiLeaks Statement On Edward Snowden’s Exit From Hong Kong

June 23, 2013 Staff, www.wikileaks.org Organize! Edward Snowden, NSA, Surveillance

Mr. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower who exposed evidence of a global surveillance regime conducted by US and UK intelligence agencies, has left Hong Kong legally. He is bound for the Republic of Ecuador via a safe route for the purposes of asylum, and is being escorted by diplomats and legal advisors from WikiLeaks. Mr. Snowden requested that WikiLeaks use its legal expertise and experience to secure his safety. Once Mr Snowden arrives in Ecuador his request will be formally processed.

Snowden Leaves Hong Kong

June 23, 2013 Staff, www./rt.com Resist! Edward Snowden, NSA, Solidarity, Surveillance

Earlier on Sunday, a spokesperson from the Hong Kong government confirmed that Edward Snowden had "legally and voluntarily" left the country. “Mr. Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel,” said the Hong Kong government in a press release. The statement also said the documents for Snowden’s extradition submitted by Washington “did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law.” “As the HKSAR Government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for a provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr. Snowden from leaving Hong Kong.” Julian Assange, told Australian Sydney Morning Herald paper that Snowden will be met by “diplomats from the country that will be his ultimate destination” in the airport, who’ll accompany him on a further flight to his destination. A doctor from the Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow has examined Snowden on his arrival.

British Spy Agency Access to Global Communications, Shares with NSA

June 21, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com/ Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

The British spy agency GCHQ has access to the global network of communications, storing calls, Facebook posts and internet histories – and shares this data with the NSA, Edward Snowden has revealed to the Guardian in a new leak. GCHQ’s network of cables is able to process massive quantities of information from both specific targets and completely innocent people, including recording phone calls and reading email messages. The Government Communications Headquarters agency has two different programs, aimed at carrying out this online and telephone monitoring. . . these latest revelations by Edward Snowden, that up to ‘600 million’ telephone events last year were recorded a day. The Guardian reports that 850,000 NSA and outside contractors had potential access to the databases. The mass-surveillance has seen the interception of data from transatlantic cables that also carry data to western Europe through ‘intercept partners’ commercial companies that had entered into private agreements with GCHQ. Many have been paid off for their cooperation.

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