Edward Snowden, America's
most-wanted whistle-blower
“The
US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering
me.”
Edward Snowden’s Crimes against the
U.S. Government:
#1. “I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure
such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is
dangerous.”
#2. Exposed that: “When NSA makes a
technical mistake during an exploitation operation, critical systems crash.
Congress hasn't declared war on the countries—the majority of them are our
allies—but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network
operations against them that affect millions of innocent people.”
#3. "I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed
to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest," Snowden said
in his original interview. "There are all sorts of documents that would
have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my
goal. Transparency is."
#4. Exposed that: "The reality
is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT
databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number,
email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on—it's all the
same,"
#5.
Exposed that:
"Americans’ communications are collected and viewed on a daily basis on
the certification of an analyst rather than a warrant. They excuse this as
'incidental' collection, but at the end of the day, someone at NSA still has
the content of your communications"
#6. Posed the question to us all: Journalists
should ask a specific question: since these programs began operation shortly
after September 11th, how many terrorist attacks were prevented SOLELY by
information derived from this suspicionless surveillance that could not be
gained via any other source? Then ask how many individual communications were
ingested to achieve that, and ask yourself if it was worth it. Bathtub falls
and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of
falling victim to it.
#7. His reward for his capital
“crimes”: "Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media
now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my
girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicion less
surveillance in human history."
WOULDN'T IT BE NICE IF OUR
AMERICAN PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, BRINGER OF SOCIAL CHANGE, POLITICAL REFORM, AND
GOVERNMENTAL TRANSPERANCY HAD THE SAME CRIMINAL INTEGRITY THAT EDWARD SNOWDEN HAS!#socialhysteria
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