CONTEXT: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, proving definitively that trials are a pointless waste of time and resources, came up from his pit full of freshly-harvested child hearts yesterday to announce on Fox News that he’d found NSA whistleblower Eric Snowden to be guilty of treason. Snowden, to his credit, then took to the internet to point out that Cheney’s assessment shouldn’t mean anything to anyone, given that it was his lies that took us to war, costing tens of thousands their lives.
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Snowden also did an AMA on Reddit yesterday, as someone here noted on another thread.
I’d love to see the two of them go into the Thunderdome together.
What Snowden should have is demonstrated the scope and power of these government eavesdropping systems by recording every correspondence made by Cheney over the past five years and making it public to the American people. That would have been incredible.
Maybe Mr. Snowden isn’t completely out of the system yet. Maybe he left himself a backdoor. It’s unlikely, but can you imagine how he’d turn the nation on its ear if he started releasing Cheney’s phone calls? There would be a squadron of drones in flight to Hong Kong within one minute of the first recording going live.
One of the best takes on this that I’ve seen so far.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you “Scumbag Obama”:
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3uw9qj/
From the Atlantic:
Read more:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/3-former-nsa-employees-praise-edward-snowden-corroborate-key-claims/276964/
Just FYI, Dianne Feinstein said the same thing about him.
re Feinstein: What else would you expect — from a Democrat?
On a lighter, cheerier note: Is it possible that it might be the progressive, peace-loving Democratic Obama administration that leads the world into a nightmarish armageddon-like nuclear conflagration? Yes, it IS possible.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/06/17/washington-is-insane-paul-craig-roberts/
Washington Is Insane — Paul Craig Roberts
June 17, 2013
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What the neocon nazis, the bush/obama regime, and the presstitute media have made clear is that Washington is going to push its agenda of world hegemony to the point of starting World War III, which, of course, means the end of life on earth. Russia and China, either one of which can destroy the United States, have learned that the US government is a liar and cannot be trusted. The Libyan “no-fly” policy to which Russia and China agreed turned out to be a NATO air attack on the Libyan army so that the CIA-sponsored mercenaries could prevail. Russia and China, having learned their lesson, are protesting Washington’s assault on Syria that Washington pretends is a “civil war.” If Syria falls, Russia and China know that Iran is next. Iran is Russia’s underbelly, and for China Iran is 20% of its energy imports. Both Russian and Chinese governments know that after Iran falls, they are next. There is no other explanation for Washington surrounding Russia with missile bases and surrounding China with naval and air bases. Both Russia and China are now preparing for the war that they see as inevitable. Washington’s crazed, demented drive for world hegemony is bringing unsuspecting Americans up against two countries with hydrogen bombs whose combined population is five times the US population. In such a conflict everyone dies. Considering the utterly insane government ruling in Washington, if human life exists in 2020, it will be a miracle. All the worry about future Medicare and Social Security deficits is meaningless. There will be no one here to collect the benefits.
Bill Ayers is calling for Obama to be tried for war crimes for the acts of “terrorism” that he’s initiated.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/06/18/bill_ayers_obama_should_be_put_on_trial_for_war_crimes.html
The message below is from Daniel Ellsberg, the well-known whistleblower and lifelong advocate for freedom who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” 40 years ago, exposing the U.S. government’s devastating strategy during the Vietnam War.
Tell the president to push for the repeal of the spying laws.
Dear Friends,
There has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material—and I include the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.
Americans and the world recently learned that the U.S. government has been indiscriminately spying on us. And I’ve seen firsthand how the consequences of that kind of government abuse threaten our most fundamental liberties.
So when the government insists that its massive surveillance programs are legal—that procedures were followed and safeguards put in place—let me be clear about what they really mean: secret courts immune to scrutiny, secret briefings to a handful of legislators, and an executive branch claiming more and more unchecked powers.
Now thanks to Edward Snowden, we know the truth. Among other things, Snowden’s revelations have allowed the ACLU to bring a lawsuit challenging the NSA’s phone call dragnet as an abuse of statutory power and a violation of 1st and 4th amendment rights.
But I want to say to you that this is not a time for lawyers alone—this is a historic development that hits all of us directly, here at home, and this may be our last chance to rein in the surveillance state.
Over 30,000 ACLU supporters have already spoken out against these spying programs. Help me swell those numbers to demonstrate the true scale of American opposition.
Tell President Obama that he must take a stand for the repeal of Section 215 of the Patriot Act and Section 702 of FISA today.
These surveillance laws create a society predicated on the belief that all of us may be subjected to unconstitutional search and seizure in the name of “security.”
The technical capabilities are in place. With the flip of the switch or another major attack, we may find ourselves in a dangerous situation in which average citizens, along with Congresspersons, journalists and their sources, even judges, are watched around the clock and are afraid to dissent. The core fixtures of our democracy—the right to protest, the right to live freely in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness without government intrusion—could be weakened beyond repair.
I remain afraid of this reality, but we cannot hesitate to address it. I believe we now have the information and inspiration we need to stand up before it’s too late to turn back.
Join me in calling for the repeal of the surveillance state provisions of the Patriot Act and FISA today.
Over 200 years ago, in the pre-digital dawn of this great nation, the founders of America never fathomed the kinds of surveillance powers that have now been turned against Americans—nor would they ever have granted to a spy agency the vast, sweeping powers we’ve learned of recently.
Now, thanks to the public revelation of these spying programs, several pieces of legislation are moving in Congress to address the danger of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. If they are to have a chance, we must rise up and call for change.
Demand that our government stop spying on us.
This week, I am a proud American moved from a place of pessimism to one of possibility. Join me in taking action to hold the government accountable for their abuses.
Let’s stand together in the days ahead,
Daniel Ellsberg on behalf of ACLU Action
Sign the Petition:
https://www.aclu.org/secure/stop-spying
Dick Cheney is a draft-dodging chicken hawk coward. It is a sad testament to the state of fascist propaganda that masquerades as news, that brings out a treasonous coward like Dick Cheney as a credible source of information. When it came time, 5 times deferred, for Dick Cheney to defend his country from the the “red menace” in Vietnam, he had “other priorities”. How can anyone take this treasonous clown Cheney seriously?, let alone the jabbering goofball of a fascist clown interviewing him. All I see from the mainstream media is fascist propaganda. Cheney hijacked the energy policy of this country for the benefit of Halliburton and Exxon/Mobil during his reign as vice president. He is a traitor to the people of this country. Hopefully justice will prevail and eliminate this traitor from civilized society.
Snowden’s revelations could lead to trials against bankers and people guilty of war crimes.
Read more:
http://rt.com/op-edge/snowden-nsa-crime-gchq-136/
Hell, Kerry came out and said Snowden is “dangerous”. He must mean to Obama’s reputation.
“Snowden’s Employer, Booz Allen, the World’s Most Profitable Spy Organization”
From Bloomburg:
Read more:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization#p1
Something for the “Other People We Should Be Going After Instead of Snowden” file.
Read more:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-last-mystery-of-the-financial-crisis-154447818.html?page=all
Russia is giving him amnesty for a year. If I were him, I’d be worried. If he’s got laptops with him that contain information, they want them, and will stop at nothing. And Putin has a Superbowl ring that kills.