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NSA Whistle-blower Ed Snowden

Reviews of Edward J. Epstein book on Snowden, HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS
Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
:
https://www.amazon.ca/How-America-Lost-Its-Secrets/dp/0451494563

1) The Economist:

How Edward Snowden changed history A damning account of a devastating intelligence breach
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21714318-damning-account-devastating-intelligence-breach-how-edward-snowden-changed?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/how_edward_snowden_changed_history

2) NY Times--more dubious about the book:

Is Edward Snowden a Spy? A New Book Calls Him One.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/books/review/is-edward-snowden-a-spy-a-new-book-calls-him-one.html?smid=tw-share

Relevant from Oct. 2016, another case:

US Intelligence and Insider Threat: NSA Contractor Maximum “Holy Cow!”
https://cgai3ds.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/mark-collins-us-intelligence-and-insider-threat-nsa-contractor-maximum-holy-cow/

Mark
Ottawa
 
So, How did you like Obama's pardoning of Snowden in his final days.

Oh, wait. Snowden got left off the list.

Too bad, so sad.

:rofl:
 
There is a story going around that the Russians may be considering sending Snowden back to the US as a "gift".

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Russia-Eyes-Sending-Snowden-to-US-as-Gift-to-Trump-Official-413453243.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DCBrand
 
I'm sure once they've sucked him dry, he'll be discarded like an empty slurpee cup.
 
jollyjacktar said:
I'm sure once they've sucked him dry, he'll be discarded like an empty slurpee cup.

He's saying in online interviews that he hasn't seen or heard anything that would indicate the Russians were going to send him back. And he naively states that this proves he isn't working for the Russians, why would they give up a spy who could be a valuable asset.  :facepalm:

 
cupper said:
He's saying in online interviews that he hasn't seen or heard anything that would indicate the Russians were going to send him back.
 

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Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship


Edward Snowden
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Image caption,
Edward Snowden wants to go back to the US but faces espionage charges if he returns
Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked extensive US intelligence surveillance operations, has been granted Russian citizenship.
The decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.
Mr Snowden, 39, has been living in exile in Russia since exposing the National Security Agency (NSA) programme affecting millions of Americans in 2013.
Mr Snowden, who faces espionage charges in the US, has made no public comments.
In 2020, the NSA surveillance of millions of Americans' telephone records was ruled unlawful by the US Court of Appeals.
Mr Snowden said afterwards that he felt vindicated by the ruling.

Top US intelligence officials had publicly insisted the NSA had never knowingly collected data from private phone records, until Mr Snowden exposed evidence to the contrary.
Following the revelation, officials said the NSA's surveillance program had played a crucial role in fighting domestic terrorism, including the convictions of Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud, Mohamed Mohamud, and Issa Doreh, of San Diego, for providing aid to al-Shabab militants in Somalia.
Mr Snowden's lawyer Anatoliy Kucherena was on Monday quoted by Russian state-run news agencies as saying that his client has never served in the Russian army, and therefore would not be called up as part of a partial mobilisation announced by President Putin last week.
The Russian authorities say they want to enlist 300,000 army reservists to fight in Ukraine, amid growing public opposition.
Reports in opposition Russian media suggest that up to one million people could be called up.

Too bad about the highlighted part.
 


Too bad about the highlighted part.
Funny thing - he did serve in the US Military...which, if push came to shove, might have someone pay him a visit to have him sign up. I'm willing to bet though that he's got a sugar daddy in the FSB that'll be keeping him out of harm's way ;)

Trivial fact - after my Dad left the Canadian Army in the late 60's and got a job as a computer programmer, he was offered a job in the US, where, along with his green card, would have been liable to the draft and was told this outright...as a qualified gun number on a piece of artillery currently in US service and a trained arty radio operator, well, he decided he didn't want to go to Vietnam and declined the job.
 
Too bad about the highlighted part.
Many years ago there was this fellow who defected to the USSR, tried to fit in, had difficulties, came back to the USA and involved himself in politics "Fair Deal for Cuba" or something like that. Lee Harvey Oswald.

Interesting.
 
Trivial fact - after my Dad left the Canadian Army in the late 60's and got a job as a computer programmer, he was offered a job in the US, where, along with his green card, would have been liable to the draft and was told this outright...as a qualified gun number on a piece of artillery currently in US service and a trained arty radio operator, well, he decided he didn't want to go to Vietnam and declined the job.

Interesting. One of the exemptions for the draft was (and still is):

"A non-citizen who served at least a year in the military of a country with which the U.S. is involved in mutual defense activities will be exempt from military service if he is a national of a country that grants reciprocal privileges to citizens of the U.S."

Such an individual would be classified as 4-A-A.

 
Ignorance of US immigration law among US officials is common.

I know someone born in Maryland, who was told that they were a US citizen, the diplomatic immunity of their parents notwithstanding.
 
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