Media Push for War

There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 11, 2022

It's sick.

Leno: Edward Snowden Joke

JAY LENO: This NSA leaker guy-- What's his name? Edward Snowden, somehow he managed to get out of the United States with all this information. Where is he? He's in Russia now. He's going to be in Ecuador or whatever. He remains at large. What are the odds? Out of 350 million Americans, the only one the government wasn't watching was him. Why is that?

Obama's Government Is Watching You

Leno: Edward Snowden Jokes

JAY LENO: The new Superman movie opens on Friday. We had Russell Crowe on the other night. He plays Superman's father and it's a great story. When Superman's dad realizes that his son is gifted with x-ray vision and super hearing, he puts him in a rocket and sends him towards earth 'cause he knows with those powers he can get a job with the Obama administration.

This story is getting more bizarre. Yesterday, the Guardian newspaper in England reported that a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA named Edward Snowden leaked the story that the federal government is collecting phone records from Verizon customers. Snowden says, 'You're being watched,' to which NBC executives said, 'Finally.' Gee, that would be great. We would love to be watched.

President Obama said although people are being watched, President Obama said, 'No one is listening to your phone calls.' He said, 'No one in the government is listening to your phone calls.' I believe the president. Have you ever called a government agency? Huh? The person on the other end is never listening. You can talk till you're blue in the face. They're never listening to what you say. No one is listening.

Of course, a lot of people are asking how this Snowden guy could download all this classified information and give it to a British newspaper without the NSA knowing about it. I think they know the answer. If you don't want the NSA spying on you, get a job working at the NSA. That's how it works.

Anyway, this Snowden guy has been in hiding for the last three weeks. Pretty clever guy. He wanted to hide in a place where nobody would see him so he's been in a theater showing After Earth.

Well, Snowden said today he was going to disclose all this information earlier but he wanted to wait until after the election, to which Mitt Romney said, 'Hey, thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Anything I can do for you, give me a call.'

Now, a group of web developers say they have developed an app that protects cell phone users from having their calls and texts tracked. In fact, reporters want to schedule an interview with these developers but they were mysteriously killed in a drone strike.

Edward Snowden: Interview Video

Do you trust Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower?

Is he a patriot? A hero?

From Tony Lee, Breitbart's Big Government:

The Guardian revealed on Sunday the identity of the NSA whistle-blower who gave the publication information about the NSA's data surveillance programs.

Edward Snowden, who is reportedly hiding out in Hong Kong, leaked information about the PRISM program and presumably gave the publication documents about how the federal government has obtained court orders to force Verizon to turn over the private and international phone records of all of its customers on an ongoing basis.

Snowden is described as "a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton," who has been "working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell."

After the Washington Post broke the story about the NSA's PRISM program, the Guardian revealed more details, including the three billion pieces of intelligence the NSA reportedly collected from American computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March of 2013. The article, though, is not clear about what specific pieces of information Snowden leaked.

Snowden said he leaked the the various NSA documents because he felt the agency was "intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them," and he believed this posed an "existential threat" to democracy.

He is currently hiding in Hong Kong and may try to get asylum in Iceland because of its "reputation of a champion of internet freedom."

...He said he did not see himself as a "hero" but as someone who just leaked the information because he did not "want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity."

Snowden also claims to have "carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest." He chose to disclose them because he said the NSA programs posed an "existential threat to democracy." He said he did not turn over documents that would have made a big impact because those documents could have harmed people. He said he once viewed the Internet as "the most important intervention in all of human history" before realizing how it could be used to undermine everyone's privacy.

Watch video of the interview:



I question Snowden's motives.

Is he a selfless individual out to stop an out of control government from infringing on our privacy? Is he an egomaniac, looking for fame, hoping to cash in and sell his story?

I don't know.

I am glad he exposed the abuses. I don't care why he did it.

This story isn't about him. I'm sure the White House and the other Leftists will attempt to discredit Snowden and put the focus on him. Of course, that matters to Snowden and his family, but it's irrelevant in the overall picture.

This sort of monitoring by the government isn't supposed to happen in the U.S.

Enough!


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