Glenn Greenwald On the Espionage Act charges against Edward Snowden

[wilsonbooks]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/snowden-espionage-charges


"The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do
it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help
produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid. The
Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified
information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone.

"What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing.
Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted....The only leaks
they're interested in severely punishing are those that undermine them
politically. The "enemy" they're seeking to keep ignorant with selective and
excessive leak prosecutions are not The Terrorists or The Chinese Communists.
It's the American people. "

More at the link

[blkmusclmachine]

1. +1. "What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing."

[snot]

2. K&R'd.

Immunity for Cheney et al.

Indefinite detention and torture for "trouble-makers."

[bemildred]

3. "The irony is obvious: the same people who are building a ubiquitous surveillance system to spy on

everyone in the world, including their own citizens, are now accusing the person who exposed it of "espionage".

[struggle4progress]

4. Snowden Went to Booz Allen to Steal Files

Philip Bump
1:40 PM ET

Edward Snowden took a job at the intelligence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton specifically to steal American intelligence information, according to a report today in the South China Morning Post quoting the NSA leaker's last major interview ... Snowden reached out to the Washington Post's Barton Gellman on May 16 with evidence of the existence of the PRISM program. His relationship with the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald goes back further, with his having contacted the reporter in February, indicating that he had "information" that would be of interest. This was well before he began work at Booz ...

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/snowden-booz-steal-files/66539/

[mhatrw]

5. They are the only folks whose actions deserve any privacy! n/t

[yurbud]

6. Mainstream media have adopted DC's definition of "getting tough": kicking those with no power to

kiss up to those who have power (and especially money).