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| Edward Snowden in Moscow Airports, sitting next to Sarah Harrison of Wikileaks |
July 18, 2012: Wikileaks is reported to be nearing bankruptcy due to a freeze-out by banks.
December 2012: Freedom of the Press Foundation, which has Glenn Greenwald and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras on their board of directors, announces their launch with the explicit purpose of funneling money to Wikileaks.
December 2012: According to Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden first emailed him, anonymously. In an interview with Harpers, Greenwald says he initially ignored the emails.
January, 2013: Edward Snowden contacted documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, according to an interview in Salon. Poitras notes her familiarity with encryption methods thanks to her close contact with Wikileaks for a previous film, and her involvement with TOR developer and hacker Jacob Appelbaum (who was investigated for his ties to Wikileaks in 2011).
February-May 2013: Snowden exchanges emails with Greenwald and Poitras, according to the Washington Post, but does not reveal his identity.
March, 2013: Snowden takes “infrastructure analyst” job at Booz Allen Hamilton for the explicit purpose of stealing documents from the NSA, according to an interview he gave the South China Morning Post.
April, 2013: Jacob Appelbaum goes on vacation in Hawaii, according to a June 25 talk he gave in Berlin (approximately 25:30 into the video). He does not report having any contact with Snowden.
May 1, 2013: A real estate agent in Hawaii says Snowden and his girlfriend moved out of their house, but did not know where they went afterward.
May, 2013: Poitras and Appelbaum conduct an interview via encrypted email with Snowden, asking detailed technical questions to ensure Snowden possessed the skills and knowledge he claimed. Appelbaum says in an interview in Der Spiegel that he did not know Snowden’s identity. Appelbaum does not release any further details about the content of the technical discussion.
Early May, 2013: Snowden “indirectly” contacts Barton Gellman (the meaning of “indirectly” is unclear), who begins working on the PRISM story at the Washington Post.
May 16, 2013: Snowden directly communicates with Gellman for the first time (the meanings of “direct” and “indirect” are unclear).
May 20, 2013: Snowden flees Hawaii for Hong Kong, winding up in the Mira Hotel.
May 24, 2013: Snowden tells Gellman of his desire to apply for asylum in Iceland, then asks Gellman to “publish — within 72 hours — the full text of a PowerPoint presentation describing PRISM.” When Gellman balks, Snowden apparently contacts Greenwald.
June 6, 2013: The Guardian publishes the first in its ongoing cache of documents provided by Snowden.
June 9, 2013: The Guardian reveals Edward Snowden as the source of the leaks and publishes the first of two video interviews with him. Snowden says of his leaking: “I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.”
June 10, 2013: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange praises Snowden as a hero from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
June 10, 2013: Snowden checks out of the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong, whereabouts unknown.
June 19, 2013: Assange says Wikileaks is giving Snowden legal counsel and helping him “broker” asylum.
June 22, 2013: A New York Times story included “a person familiar with the case” saying Snowden was staying at an apartment under Hong Kong police protection. It is removed within 24 hours.
June 23, 2013: Snowden leaves for Moscow. The Wall Street Journal reports that Wikileaks advised Snowden to leave Hong Kong; fearing a loss of internet access, he does. A source tells the WSJ no Chinese officials were involved in his departure; a New York Times report disagrees. Izvestia, a state-owned Russian newspaper, writes that the Kremlin and its intelligence services collaborated with Wikileaks to help Snowden escape from Hong Kong (Wikileaks did not mention any official involvement in Snowden’s departure from Hong Kong in their press statements).
June 28, 2013: The AP reports that the transit hotel where Snowden is staying costs $300 per night.
July 4, 2013: Israel Shamir, a Wikileaks spokesman (Wikileaks denies this, but former Wikileaks employees insist he worked closely with Julian Assange. Shamir had earlier helped Belarussian dictator Alexandr Lukashenka oppress dissidents with Wikileaks data, and was placed in charge of editing Russian-language cables), praises Snowden to Zavtra, an anti-Semitic Russian-nationalist magazine edited by Alexander Prokhanov (whose own background of communism and anti-Semitism is worth noting). Shamir favorably compares Snowden to renowned British defector Kim Philby.
July 9, 2013: Bernd Fix, a fundraiser for Wikileaks, says the group has gone from raising €2,000 a month in 2012 to €1,000 a day, still below the group’s high of €20,000 a month in 2010.
There's more, a lot more, and all of it backed up with links, but you get the idea.
So the question, besides Snowden's motives, is WHO has been helping Snowden, and what are THEIR motives?
It also should be noted that Russia has not officially given Snowden asylum, and that Eric Holder issued a letter to Russia saying that if returned Snowden would not be executed, nor face torture.
Which may mean that he is in no way out of the woods yet. In fact the Russian woods may be much worse for him in the long run than anything he might face in the United States.
When the book is written, we shall all found out that just like the Tea Party, the Koch brothers are the sponsors of Edward Snowdon
ReplyDeleteDon't ever forget that the Koch brothers father made some of the family's FIRST big oil money in Russia, under Papa Joe Stalin. The family also made money in Nazi Germany under Hitler. I don't for a moment believe that they don't have connections to organizations such as Lukoil. Here's an article about the Stalinist connections to the Koch-founded and Koch-funded tea party: http://exiledonline.com/a-peoples-history-of-koch-industries-how-stalin-funded-the-tea-party-movement/
DeleteWell, this brings a whole new dimension to this whole saga. I agree with Maggie Me above... I bet there are the Teabaggers behind it, and by definition the Koch brothers.
ReplyDeleteJust one more trial of giving our President a black eye, since they have tried everything else and it kind of did not stick to him but backfired at the RETHUGS instead.
Snowden is the latest iteration of Sarah Palin-, Andrew Breitbart, Jim Hoft, RS McCain, Pam Geller, and James O'Keefe-like flunkees paid with Koch money through a network of shell organizations that exist exclusively to spread anti-Obama money and anti-Obama sentiment around to shills and shill orgs.
DeleteNow the Kochs, understanding their credibility gap is expanding with middle America because of their exposure in shenanigans using these disinfo campaigns, are planning to buy up legitimate news sources using the Murdoch model. If the Kochs gain control of the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, that is only the beginning of the end of what is left in "straight news".
I'm not paranoid about how they would use that segment of the media the way they are using the Internet and Fox and talk radio mediums, because I *know* they will use it to exploit their power with politicians afraid to lose favor with the Kochs and the voting blocks that they control with their empire. As Joe Biden would say, but with grave concern instead of glee, "...this is a big fucking deal."
Little Eddy has become a pawn in the great spy game we have been conducting for centuries. He sold his soul the minute he started harvesting info. He will be used as a bartering tool until the players strike a compatible deal. It's just another chapter in the world of espionage. Snowden is NOT a rocket scientist, just a gofer for something bigger down the road.
ReplyDeleteTit for Tat! Where's Nemo?
I have always said that if people thought this was just one man on a mission with no Libertarian billionaire in the back of it----they were deluded. Again---Greenwald smells of the sewer and the heroic Snowden has never been who
ReplyDeletehis supporters think he is. But they are so invested they will never admit it.
I found this when I googled his name.
ReplyDeletehttp://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/07/25/gilberton-pennsylvania-police-chief-mark-kessler/
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chillin2d8
July 26, 2013
Call Chief Kessler’s cell phone number 570-205-0585 and let him know what you think. Also call the Mayor Mary Lou Hannon here and let her know also Gilberton Borough Office–(570) 874-4790.
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DeleteThanks for providing a succinct timeline . . . and either way, I think Snowden's motives/actions were misguided. If it was "really" about ethics, he was smart enough to craft a much different approach to address it. And you can best believe there are deep-pocketed charlatans pulling his strings behind the curtain, Iron and otherwise (intra-politically)...
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Last night, on Greta's show, Sarah said that during the 2008 campaign, she wanted to be the whistle blower and tell the truth about Obama's connections with Bill Ayers and Reverend Wright. What Sarah wanted to do was to insult Obama and call him names because of the people he associated with. That's not whistle blowing. That's just smearing someone.
ReplyDeleteSnowden was a whistle blower, meaning that he had inside information that no one else had and he revealed it. Everyone knew about Wright and Ayers. There were the GOP talking points until they realized that the media was more interested in substance than name calling. As for guilt by association, Sarah hung around with someone who was so anti-American that he joined the Alaska Independence Party, an anti-American organization. She even spoke at one of their conventions. Talk about palling around with terrorists.
Now, if Sarah wants to know the real definition of the words "whistle blower," that would be the person who finally comes forward to explain who really gave birth to Trig.
I think that Russia has been in on this from the get-go, and that Russia is also a major backer (perhaps even the primary one) of Wikileaks. (After all, Wikileaks makes the US government look bad, which is Putin's mission on earth). The longer Russia lets Snowden dangle, the more it precludes the public from arriving at my theory. And the more Russia ensures that every cell in Snowden's brain will belong to them. They own him, and will continue to use him, like a damp, wrung-out rag: every drop will be theirs.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Greenwald, who is gay, should take a closer look at Russia's policy on homosexuality and on how the government turns a blind eye on violence against homosexuals.
DeleteLay down with dogs...
What I want to know is why USIS, the private company which did his back round check, still has their government contract.
ReplyDeletebecause they have dirt on someone important?
Delete"(Wyden) delivered a remarkable speech on July 23 at a meeting held by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. This is a standard Democratic Party Beltway organization: pro-union, pro-global warming, pro-green, pro-big government. But on civil liberties, it is on the side of rolling back the federal government in general and the NSA in particular.
ReplyDeleteWyden’s speech was a summary of how the NSA has provided incorrect information to Congress and the public. He did not say “lies,” but this is what he clearly meant…. Snowden provided evidence of the extent of the data collection, which the NSA’s director had categorically denied to Congress had been going on. Wyden’s speech is the best summary I have read on the extent of the NSA’s systematic deception of Congress…
“We find ourselves at a truly unique time in our Constitutional history. The growth of digital technology, dramatic changes in the nature of warfare and the definition of a battlefield, and novel courts that run counter to everything the Founding Fathers imagined, make for a combustible mix. At this point in the speech I would usually conclude with the quote from Ben Franklin… but I thought a different founding father might be more fitting today. James Madison, the father of our constitution, said that the accumulation of executive, judicial and legislative powers into the hands of any faction is the very definition of tyranny. He then went on to assure the nation that the Constitution protected us from that fate. So, my question to you is: by allowing the executive to secretly follow a secret interpretation of the law under the supervision of a secret, nonadversarial court and occasional secret congressional hearings, how close are we coming to James Madison’s “very definition of tyranny”? I believe we are allowing our country to drift a lot closer than we should, and if we don’t take this opportunity to change course now, we will all live to regret it.
The NSA — secret budget — is using a secret law and a secret court system — the FISA-authorized court system — to construct a truly Orwellian apparatus for spying on the American public. Members of Congress are not legally able to reveal any of this. He said that he cannot legally speak of what he knows. Were it not for Snowden…he could not have spoken about what he knew before Snowden went public.
He thinks the American public is becoming more aware of this, and more hostile.
“Last month, disclosures … lit the surveillance world on fire. Several provisions of secret law were no longer secret and the American people were finally able to see some of the things I’ve been raising the alarm about for years. And when they did, boy were they stunned, and boy are they angry. You hear it in the lunch rooms, town hall meetings, and senior citizen centers. The latest polling, the well-respected Quinnipiac poll, found that a plurality of people said the government is overreaching and encroaching too much on Americans’ civil liberties. That’s a huge swing from what that same survey said just a couple years ago, and that number is trending upward. As more information about sweeping government surveillance of law-abiding Americans is made public and the American people can discuss its impacts, I believe more Americans will speak out. They’re going to say, in America, you don’t have to settle for one priority or the other: laws can be written to protect both privacy and security, and laws should never be secret.
… July 24, the House of Representatives voted down an amendment to cut the NSA’s budget — the official one, not the real one, which is secret. It was Nancy Pelosi who made the difference. She carried the NSA’s water. The failure of Congress to make a token cut in the National Security Agency’s official budget on July 24 was a green light for the NSA to spy on all Americans, forever.
Congress knows that the voters do not care enough to mobilize against the Patriot Act, which is the heart of the surveillance state. They also know that most House members are immune from the voters. Gerrymandering works."
Forgot the link.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/gary-north/the-surveillance-state-is-doomed/
Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/
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Why should Snowden "face the music" when Rice, Tenet, Drumheller, Pavitt, Kappes, Rodriguez, Rizzo & Bush refuse to? http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/27/197823/us-allowed-italian-kidnap-prosecution.html …
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Clapper now confirms what we reported: Patriot Act was also used to bulk-collect internet/email metadata on Americans http://www.wyden.senate.gov/download/?id=285dc9e7-195a-4467-b0fe-caa857fc4e0d …
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You're driving your car when suddenly you can't stop. But your brakes didn't fail - you were hacked. http://bit.ly/12sJPzr
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@ForbesTech @a_greenberg You are a journalist and enemy of the state...
You people really are so into sucking Obama's dick that you'll defend him for doing worse things than Bush ever dreamed of, won't you? Including tye fabrication of a Snowden-Koch link. Pathetic.
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