Snowdon is a dummy

The journalist who broke the story about an intelligence leaker says he has even more damaging information about US spying activities. He said this would be released if something were to happen to Edward Snowden.

Glenn Greenwald, a journalist with Britain's Guardian newspaper, which first published Snowden's revelations, told Argentina's La Nacion that the former National Security Agency contractor and Central Intelligence Agency employee had so far elected to withhold much of the information he has.

"Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the US government in a single minute than any other person has ever had," Greenwald said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro published in the Saturday edition of the paper.

"The US government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare," Greenwald added. ... ... ...

The journalist who broke the story about an intelligence leaker says he has even more damaging information about US spying activities. He said this would be released if something were to happen to Edward Snowden.

Glenn Greenwald, a journalist with Britain's Guardian newspaper, which first published Snowden's revelations, told Argentina's La Nacion that the former National Security Agency contractor and Central Intelligence Agency employee had so far elected to withhold much of the information he has.

"Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the US government in a single minute than any other person has ever had," Greenwald said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro published in the Saturday edition of the paper.

"The US government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare," Greenwald added. ... ... ...

The events initially addressed in “The Act of Killing” are little known in the West: the slaughter of as many as a million people in Indonesia following the military’s seizure of power there in 1965. The victims were labeled Communists but included labor leaders, ethnic Chinese and intellectuals, with paramilitary groups carrying out the killings at the behest of the Indonesian Army and with the support of the United States and its allies, who worried that Indonesia, like Vietnam, would fall into Communist hands.

What Assange and Manning have done, in my opinion, are a net negative to peace and safety.

What Assange and Manning have done, in my opinion, are a net negative to peace and safety. Whatever can be done to discourage what they have done...makes sense to me.

@Frank
You can say (because it's obviously true) that we have different ideas here. Fine. But there's no flesh on the bones of your use of "dictatorial" in the manner you used it. That's simply not a correct or rational use of the term. It is upside down as I described. To use it in that manner is to say that the whistle-blowers in the tobacco industry or in the lysine price fixing scandal are dictators and the institutions revealed are victims of dictatorness.

Frank Apisa wrote:

What Assange and Manning have done, in my opinion, are a net negative to peace and safety.

The exact opposite, they have shone a light onto terrible practices, and exposed war crimes.

If anything constitutes a net negative to peace and safety it's the subsequent actions of the American government. Bradley Manning has been tortured. America has asserted itself as a global bully by coercing Spain, France and Austria to ground, and search, the Bolivian presidents plane.

The resentment we feel in Europe is nothing compared to the outrage in Latin America.

Snowden originally wanted asylum in a democracy, in order to claim asylum in Russia he'll probably have to hand over information that really does affect National Security. The CIA has shot itself in the foot over this.

LOL. I asked first: who are you to object to his free speech? and you answered by a question... which I answered by another question. So I asked first.

If you don't like other people's free speech, just say so. No need to hide.

There were a little over 5,000 requests that went to the FISA court for approval, and only one was denied.

Logistics-wise, I think most of us are pretty safe in our privacy rights.

Around 10,000 staff across the UK’s three main spy agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ in Cheltenham, have access to Tempora’s gathered data, as do 850,000 employees and private contractors of the NSA in the United States.

By comparison, the small ICCO office based in Whitehall’s Queen Anne’s Gate headed by the retired appeal court judge Sir Anthony May, currently has less than 10 full-time staff to carry out its statutory duty of reviewing the interception activity of the UK spy agencies, the Metropolitan Police, HM Revenue and Customs, the Foreign Office, the Home Office and Ministry of Defence.

Why don't you CHARGE Assange with something???