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Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who exposed secret intelligence programs, said he wont return to the U.S. because of gaps in federal whistle-blower laws that he said would leave him unprotected.
Snowden, who fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia after leaking classified documents on the governments Internet and telephone data spy programs, said Congress needs to broaden the Whistleblower Protection Act so that national security contractors can more easily fight for changes from within the intelligence system.
Returning to the U.S., I think, is the best resolution for the government, the public, and myself, but its unfortunately not possible in the face of current whistle-blower protection laws, Snowden wrote yesterday in an Internet question-and-answer session.
While the authenticity of Snowdens identity couldnt be independently verified, two advocates who have advised Snowden - - Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project and Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union -- said by e-mail they could confirm Snowdens participation.
The session was conducted by the Courage Foundation, which describes itself as a trust formed to help defend journalistic sources such as Snowden, who gave classified National Security Agency documents to media organizations including the U.K.-based Guardian newspaper and The Washington Post.
It marked at least the second time that Snowden has used an Internet chat to communicate with the public about his efforts to change U.S. surveillance laws. A similar session was conducted in June on the Guardians website.
Some members of Congress, including House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, have called Snowden a traitor for disclosing intelligence programs meant to prevent terrorism.
Snowden, 30, faces charges of theft and espionage and is in Russia on temporary asylum. Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday that if Snowden wanted to return to the U.S. and plead guilty, prosecutors would be willing to negotiate.
Weve always indicated that clemency for Snowden is off the table, Holder said during a forum at the University of Virginia. Were he to come back to the United States and enter a plea, we would engage with his lawyers.
Snowden yesterday defended his actions as an act of civil disobedience and said hes aware of threats that have been made against his life.
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The Snowdenistas as I call his supporters use this largely underwhelming material as proof of systematic abuse by out-of-control spy services. Did anyone really think that the hackers and code-crackers in Cheltenham (home to GCHQ) or in Fort Meade, Maryland (headquarters of the NSA) spent all day playing Sudoku? Their capabilities are indeed colossal. So they should be, given the taxpayers money they consume.
Spy agencies engage in espionage, an inherently disreputable trade: it involves stealing secrets. When details leak, they look shocking. But the hypocrisy of the Snowdenistas is as jarring as their naivety.
Our enemies notably Russia and China are spying on us. So too are our allies. France runs a mighty industrial espionage service for the benefit of its big companies. Germany has an excellent signals intelligence agency, the Kommando Strategische Aufklrung. Germanys spies were recently caught spying on their Nato ally, Estonia, using an official who was also spying for the Russians.
Far from denigrating American intelligence, we should applaud it. It helps catch terrorists, gangsters and spies. Moreover, its oversight and scrutiny is the toughest in the world. America has taken the most elusive and lawless part of government and crammed it into a system of legislative and judicial control.
America is also part of the worlds only successful no-spy agreement, with its close allies notably Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. A list of countries that would trust Germany or France not to spy on them would be rather shorter.
Snowdens published revelations include material that has nothing to do with his purported worries about personal privacy. They reveal how countries like Norway and Sweden spy on Russia. Why is it in the public interest to reveal how democracies spy on dictatorships? The Snowdenistas outrage is based on the fact that this spying takes place in cooperation with the NSA, the fount of all evil.
Other disclosures are similarly hard to justify. Why is it in the public interest to reveal how the NSA intercepts emails, phone calls and radio transmissions of Taliban fighters in Pakistan, or to show that the agency is scrutinising the security of that countrys nuclear weapons? Snowden even revealed details of the NSA hacking computers and mobile phones in China and Hong Kong. The result is to cast a distorting and damaging light on agencies work. The harm is catastrophic.
In the spy world, the damage-control involved when even a handful of secret documents is leaked is colossal. When the breach involves tens of thousands, it is paralysing.
Our agencies have to assume that the material is either already in Moscow and Beijing, or will get there eventually. Many operations must be shut down or started anew: a serious spy service does not put lives at risk on the assumption that the other side will not exploit our blunders.
It is fatuous for Snowdens allies to say that they are keeping the stolen material safe: they lack the knowledge and skills to do so. With equal fatuity, they assert that they redacted the published material in order not to breach security. How can they know what will be damaging or harmless?
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Edward Snowden says hes in no rush to leave Vladimir Putins Russia, despite a public offer by Attorney General Eric Holder to engage in conversation if Snowden would return home and plead guilty to unspecified federal charges.
We would do the same with any defendant who wanted to enter a plea of guilty, the attorney general added.
But Snowden is not just any defendant. Michael Hayden, former NSA director, describes him this way: Edward Snowden will likely prove to be the most costly leaker of American secrets in the history of the republic.
In sharp contrast, President Obama suggested Snowden wasnt worth the bother, saying he was not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker.
We cant help comparing the liberal reaction to Ed Snowden with the reaction to I. Lewis Scooter Libby. While Snowden has exposed tens of thousands of secrets, Libby was the aide to Dick Cheney whom Democrats and the media wanted pursued to the ends of the earth for having leaked the name of a single CIA agent, Valerie Plame, to columnist Robert Novak.
When it turned out this wasnt true, Libby was still prosecuted and convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. The man who had in fact leaked Plames name, Richard Armitage at State, was never charged.
So, Mr. President, we have a deal for you: Before your administration offers new deals to Edward Snowden a man who admits to having intentionally exposed tens of thousands of secrets, how about a full pardon for Scooter Libby, who was accused falsely of leaking just one?
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Jan 23, 2014 4:37pm
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor that exposed the agencys most closely held secrets, said today that while returning to the U.S. would be the best resolution for everyone, its not possible now because he does not believe he can get a fair trial.
Charged in the U.S. with espionage-related crimes and living quietly in Russia, Snowden answered Twitter questions today in an online Q&A. When CNNs Jake Tapper asked under what conditions Snowden would return to the U.S., the 30-year-old said the nearly 100-year-old Espionage Act, under which he is charged, forbids a public interest defense.
This is especially frustrating, because it means theres no chance to have a fair trial, and no way I can come home and make my case to a jury, he said.
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In a Wall Street Journal Op Ed Tuesday, attorney Jesselyn Radack, who has represented government whistleblowers in the past and has had contact with Snowden, argued similarly that its a fantasy to think Snowden would be able to mount a solid defense in a fair trial due to Espionage Act-related government restrictions.
Earlier today U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said that if Snowden wanted to return to the U.S. and enter a guilty plea, the Justice Department would engage with his lawyers.
Of course if Mr. Snowdens lawyers informed us their client was prepared to take accountability by pleading guilty to the charges filed against him, we would engage with his lawyers on that, as we would with any other defendant, a Department of Justice spokesperson echoed later.
Last June Holder wrote a letter to his Russian counterpart in which he promised the U.S. would not torture or execute Snowden an attempt to refute the grounds upon which Snowden originally made his asylum plea. At the time, Holder said that should Snowden return, he would be provided all the protections the law allows.
Todays Q&A was the second conducted by Snowden since he revealed himself to be the source in a seemingly never-ending stream of reports about the NSAs vast foreign and domestic espionage operations. Snowden is currently living in Russia under temporary asylum, having fled his contractor job at the NSA in Hawaii first for Hong Kong and then for Moscow.
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Russia announced it would extend asylum to former NSA analyst Edward Snowden beyond the original year they had promised.
Russia announced Friday it would extend asylum to Edward Snowden beyond the original year they granted him back in June 2013.
Russia's Foreign Affairs Committee head Alexy Pushkov made the announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, CNN reported. He said that they would not send Snowden back to the United States after his original year of asylum ends in June.
This is good news for the former analyst that worked for a contractor under the National Security Agency until he leaked secrets about questionable U.S. intelligence gathering methods. Snowden has become one of America's most wanted and there doesn't seem to be a possibility for him to receive the whistle-blower protection he says he deserves.
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In an online chat Thursday Snowden said that while he hoped to return home to the U.S. someday, he would be unwilling to do so until whistle-blower protection laws were reformed to cover him.
"There are so many holes in the laws, the protections they afford are so weak, and the processes for reporting they provide are so ineffective that they appear to be intended to discourage reporting of even the clearest wrongdoing," he wrote.
Snowden indicated that his return to the U.S. "is the best resolution for all parties," but "it's unfortunately not possible in the face of current whistle-blower protection laws."
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Snowden has been charged with espionage and theft of government property but said that due to certain laws he would not be allowed to contend that he was acting in the public interest by revealing the U.S. surveillance programs, United Press International reports.
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Jan 23, 2014 4:00pm
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden today denied stealing or tricking his co-workers into giving up their passwords and log-in information so that he could make off with a trove of secret documents from the secretive agency.
Snowden made the denial during an online Q&A today and referenced a Reuters report from November that alleged Snowden had used log-in credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to the media.
Citing an unidentified source, the Reuters report said that Snowden may have persuaded between 20 and 25 fellow workers at the NSA regional operations center in Hawaii to give him their login and passwords by telling them they were needed for him to do his job as a computer systems administrator. The Reuters report did not directly accuse Snowden of stealing.
With all due respect to [Reuters reporter] Mark Hosenball, the Reuters report that put this out there was simply wrong, Snowden said today.
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Todays Q&A is the second conducted by Snowden since he revealed himself to be the source in a seemingly never-ending stream of reports about the NSAs vast foreign and domestic espionage operations.
Snowden is currently living in Russia under temporary asylum, having fled his contractor job at the NSA in Hawaii first for Hong Kong and then for Moscow. He has been charged in the U.S. with a series of espionage-related crimes.
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