Snowdon is a dummy

One of the questions I saw was that they want to determine if he had any other recourse than the one he took. I think this is critical to determining whether he had, or should have had, whistleblower protections.

the US whistleblower

I think I mentioned before that if you guys really want us to share intelligence with you in the same manner that we do with our close allies, you'll have to make us stop wondering whether you aren't secretly rooting for the terrorists.

Labour MEP Claude Moraes, the lead rapporteur for the European parliament inquiry on the mass surveillance of EU citizens, welcomed the outcome of the vote and promised that questioning would be "rigorous and fair".
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Labour MEP Claude Moraes, the lead rapporteur for the European parliament inquiry on the mass surveillance of EU citizens, welcomed the outcome of the vote and promised that questioning would be "rigorous and fair".

I don't think that this has anything to do with "sharing intelligence" but with the European parliament.

And reactions from your close UK:

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Labour MEP Claude Moraes, the lead rapporteur for the European parliament inquiry on the mass surveillance of EU citizens, welcomed the outcome of the vote and promised that questioning would be "rigorous and fair".
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Labour MEP Claude Moraes, the lead rapporteur for the European parliament inquiry on the mass surveillance of EU citizens, welcomed the outcome of the vote and promised that questioning would be "rigorous and fair".

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However, I believe we will continue to inform you guys whenever we detect that terrorists are targeting you (at least assuming we are still able to detect such things in the wake of Snowden's aid to his fellow terrorists).

Whistleblower protections are for people who expose wrongdoing, not for people who help our nation's enemies slaughter innocent Americans.

[...] While the military and law enforcement agencies long have been able to hack into individual cellphones, the NSA’s capability appears to be far more sweeping because of the agency’s global signals collection operation. The agency’s ability to crack encryption used by the majority of cellphones in the world offers it wide-ranging powers to listen in on private conversations.

U.S. law prohibits the NSA from collecting the content of conversations between Americans without a court order. But experts say that if the NSA has developed the capacity to easily decode encrypted cellphone conversations, then other nations likely can do the same through their own intelligence services, potentially to Americans’ calls, as well.
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Experts say the agency may also be able to decode newer forms of encryption, but only with a much heavier investment in time and computing power, making mass surveillance of cellphone conversations less practical.

“At that point, you can still listen to any [individual person’s] phone call, but not everybody’s,” said Karsten Nohl, chief scientist at Security Research Labs in Berlin.
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Upgrading an entire network to better encryption provides substantially more privacy for users. Nohl, the German cryptographer, said that breaking a newer form of encryption, called A5/3, requires 100,000 times more computing power than breaking A5/1. But upgrading entire networks is an expensive, time-consuming undertaking that likely would cause interruptions in service for some customers as individual phones would be forced to switch to the new technology.

Amid the uproar over NSA’s eavesdropping on Merkel’s phone, two of the leading German cellphone service providers have announced that they are adopting the newer, stronger A5/3 encryption for their 2G networks.

They “are now doing it after not doing so for 10 years,” said Nohl, who long had urged such a move. “So, thank you, NSA.”

One of those companies, Deutsche Telekom, is the majority shareholder of T-Mobile. T-Mobile said in a statement this week that it was “continuously implementing advanced security technologies in accordance with worldwide recognized and trusted standards” but declined to say whether it uses A5/3 technology or plans to do so for its 2G networks in the United States.

AT&T, the largest provider of GSM cellphone services in the country, said it was deploying A5/3 encryption for parts of its network. “AT&T always protects its customers with the best encryption possible in line with what their device will support,” it said in a statement.

The company already deploys stronger encryption on its 3G and 4G networks, but customers may still wind up using 2G networks in congested areas or places where fewer cell towers are available. ... ...

Perhaps he will be returned, if Russia doesn't follow asylum laws.

And all the business associates/confidantes of Chang Song-thaek should return to Pyongyang for trial on the charges pending against them.

But my concern is for an American named Snowden.

He deserves a fair trial...and I hope he gets one.

Frank Apisa wrote:

But my concern is for an American named Snowden.

He deserves a fair trial...and I hope he gets one.

Given all the publicity and bad press, is that possible? If I was Snowden's legal adviser I'd tell him to stay put.

I think he can...and eventually will...get a fair trial.

Frank Apisa wrote:

I think he can...and eventually will...get a fair trial.

I think your trust in American jurisprudence is misplaced. OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson and George Zimmerman are all examples of money, power and influence calling the shots. I've seen nothing to suggest Snowden won't go the same way.

The idea that Snowden will get a fair trial can't be based on how our government operates. That would be very naive.

Obama has the authority to put any citizen into prison without charge and legal representation.

I wonder how Frank thinks Snowden will get a fair trial?