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Now it comes out, just what her problem is. She says Glenn Greenwald was paid a quarter of a billion dollars to screw us on the Snowden leaks. That money was to fund the new media outlet. Of course, they won't mention that part. And they are putting it about that Greenwald just up and left the Guardian for these greener pastures and the Guardian was surprised by this. Last I heard the UK government was stopping them from publishing any more Snowden leaks. Maybe that was too strong a characterization of it, because the Guardian just now published another, but I was left with the distinct impression at the time that this was not on, that the publisher had been forced to come to their US office to publish something, the end was so nigh, just very shortly before Greenwald went over to Omidyar.
What a fucker, that he would leave the Guardian to run his own dream organization!
He says a big reason he left The Guardian, the paper that made him world-famous, is the Official Secrets Act, a 19th-century British law that grants the government powerful tools to protect secrets. The law had a “public interest” defense for leakers until 1989, when Parliament struck it from the statute.What a fucker who would let us brain dead people believe this porn-maven-ambulance-chaser-constitutional-lawyer-Sibel-omitter and his boyfriend, boyfriend, boyfriend, or husband, or sodomite, or whatever, were running around the world with national secrets, when that is impossible and besides Sibel's NSA buddy knows what's in those briefcases, so this is all a sham being perpetrated by the most venal anti-truther queer in the history of alternative journalism... who has no excuse but bottomless greed for his slowness.
What a relief. It is, after all, possible to discuss the operations of modern intelligence agencies without having to prove one's patriotism, be turned over by the police, summoned by politicians or visited by state-employed technicians with instructions to smash up one's computers.
The 300-page report into the Guardian's revelations about the US National Security Agency commissioned by President Obama and published this week is wide-ranging, informed and thoughtful. It leaps beyond the timid privacy-versus-national security platitudes which have stifled so much of the debate in the UK. It doesn't blame journalism for dragging the subject into the open: it celebrates it.
The five authors of the report are not hand-wringing liberals. They number one former CIA deputy director; a counter-terrorism adviser to George W Bush and his father; two former White House advisers; and a former dean of the Chicago law school. Not what the British prime minister would call "airy-fairy lah-di-dah" types.
Furthermore, Edward Snowden is a traitor if he won't denounce Greenwald and put in with all the "whistleblowers" who never say anything while talking and/or never answer the real questions, let alone prove anything... who, in short, are not blowing whistles.
But, fear not, Sibel's going to get Pepe Escobar on the case because he lives in the same country Greenwald does.
In fact, I think if you click around on these links, let, say, the TwitFace feeds start giving you hints, in fact, you might come to the conclusion that, in fact, a lot of the Snowden stuff is, in fact, coming out all over the place, in fact. You might, in fact, see that just about everyone who is anyone on the forefront of journalism, MSM and all the various forms of alternative, in fact, is on these Snowden leaks Greenwald is supposedly hoarding for his own gain, in fact, as we speak, in fact.
Maybe I've stressed "in fact" too much. One random sample:
Loud calls for reform are no longer just the “lone voice” of a “traitor” who “took it upon himself” to reveal “what he thought was illegal.” Rather, they are the collective clarion voice of both aisles of Congress, the judicial branch, industry and the White House’s own independent task force singing in harmony. Snowden became a whistle-blower when he made his revelations, and the thundering calls for reform cement his status as one. A whistle-blower reveals what he believes to be waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, illegality or a danger to health and public safety. Judge Leon’s decision and the review panel’s recommendations establish in the strongest terms not only that Snowden was reasonable, but that he was absolutely correct....from NYT no less. Wait! That's not a leak....
Unfortunately, rather than listening to the clamoring cries for change, the Obama administration has appealed Judge Leon’s decision and indicated that the president will reject his own panel’s recommendation to sever the N.S.A. from the Pentagon’s Cyber Command.
I submit that President Obama’s legacy rests not on kowtowing to the national security and intelligence establishments, which he was elected to reform and has done everything to appease, but on whether he has the courage to rein in the surveillance state and the humility to pardon Edward Snowden.
A tortured Libyan man's bid to sue the UK government for allegedly colluding in his rendition cannot be settled in a UK court, the High Court rules.Oh! Crap, that's not a leak either. That's just Greenwald tweeting about those nobodies with Arab-sounding names over Sibel's blather again. Really pressing his luck, no?
The judge said Abdul-Hakim Belhaj had a "well-founded claim" but pursuing it would jeopardise national security.
Aha! Really a leak article to add to the above:
Secret documents reveal more than 1,000 targets of American and British surveillance in recent years, including the office of an Israeli prime minister, heads of international aid organizations, foreign energy companies and a European Union official involved in antitrust battles with American technology businesses."Go away, bitch."
While the names of some political and diplomatic leaders have previously emerged as targets, the newly disclosed intelligence documents provide a much fuller portrait of the spies’ sweeping interests in more than 60 countries.
