Snowdon is a dummy

On January 17, 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales informed U.S. Senate leaders by letter [4] that the program would not be reauthorized by the President. "Any electronic surveillance that was occurring as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program will now be conducted subject to the approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court," according to his letter.[31]

I'm in anything but a foul mood, actually I'm appreciating the irony.

No, that's a pun. I'm appreciating the irony of someone being too bloody minded to look up the definition of bloody minded.

From the below named media:

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) tapped at least one phone call of the then Foreign Minister of the United States of America, Hillary Clinton. Furthermore, the German government ordered to spy on a NATO partner. According to "Süddeutsche Zeitung" (SZ), public broadcasters "NDR" and "WDR", this is the result from documents handed over to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by a BND spy. Markus R., who was arrested in July, confessed in the meantime to have forwarded at least 218 documents to the USA within the last two years.

I wonder how many of the people who want Edward Snowden nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...think Markus R. should also be nominated.

Very ingaopooian of you. But I've come to expect that.

Frank Apisa wrote:

I wonder how many of the people who want Edward Snowden nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...think Markus R. should also be nominated.

Don't you think that there's a difference between spying for a foreign (and here for money from this foreign nation) and leaking documents to the media?

I started to read it but it is a whitewash of Mr. Snowden as the dark picture and the picture of him wrapped in an american flag shows. I dont need any more brainwashing than I have been subjected to, thank you.

]Yup, there is a difference.

But both involve individuals stealing classified information and releasing it to someone who should not be getting it.

You are assuming that if Markus R. actually did it, he did it for money.

In any case, I do wonder how many of the people who want Edward Snowden nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...think Markus R. should also be nominated. [/b]

Frank Apisa wrote:

]Yup, there is a difference.

But both involve individuals stealing classified information and releasing it to someone who should not be getting it.

You are assuming that if Markus R. actually did it, he did it for money.

He did it for money - confessed it already - got 25,000 Euros from a foreign nation for some of those documents, a (yet not /publishedknown) additional sum for some others.

Actually, that's the classical definition for spying, isn't it?

Stealing is stealing.

Frank Apisa wrote:

In any case, I do wonder how many of the people who want Edward Snowden nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...think Markus R. should also be nominated. [/b]

Perhaps those, who nominated other well known spies, like Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs etc?

]Actually, I do not think "payment of money" is a prerequisite for spying. It occasionally is done for less mundane reasons.