The rest of the world may not want him, but NSA leaker Edward Snowden has at least one potential taker: Anna Chapman. The ex-spy tweeted yesterday, “Snowden, will you marry me?!”
The former Russian spy may have sympathy for the man who spilled top-secret documents. Chapman, after all, is no stranger to run-ins with government authorities.
The 31-year-old had been posing as a real-estate agent in the United States in 2010 when she was accused of gathering intel for Russia. She and nine others were deported back to Russia in a prisoner swap.
Somehow I think this is just a publicity stunt on the part of Chapman, which illustrates the sideshow quality that his situation has taken on.
However if she is at all serious I think this might be the first time since this whole thing began that I was actually jealous of Snowden.
I mean damn!
Водка холодная и горячая дама
ReplyDelete(The Vodka is cold and the lady is hot)
:-)
Yeah, she is, even her cheeks are blushing! Other than that, I think that after looking at Assange's fame, Snowden thought he could cash in upon his own 15 minutes of fame. He obviously failed to think it through...
DeletePlease don't get distracted by the shiny objects.
Deletehttp://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/if-prism-is-good-policy-why-stop-with-terrorism/277531/
and
http://my.firedoglake.com/masaccio/2013/07/05/what-did-these-idiots-think-would-happen-if-we-hired-contractors-to-handle-spying/
RE firedoglake link, "what did these idiots think would happen if we hired contractors to handle spying?"
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It's all about the corporatist capitalist privatization culture that's been pushed by their lobbyists and bought hook-line-and-sinker (and campaign contributions) by our not-representatives in Congress.
I don't think the idiots gave one brain cell of thought, once they saw the $5,000 in their campaign war chest.
He has women. The pole dancer in Hawaii and Assagne's lady friend. Is she still with Snowjob? He lives a glamorous life.
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ReplyDeletedo you ever read comments to your rants?
Many commenters on your Snowden comments are pointing out, that this is not as simple as a Palyn story.
Ever heard of banksters hunted down?
How about Cheney and company?
Who did greater harm to us common folk?
@ 12:41pm
DeleteShut up Phil and go back to your empty blog with no comments.
We don't know who did greater harm to 'us common folk'. We still don't know what was on the laptops/flash drives he stole.
DeleteUltimately, Snowdon may endanger our country much more than the others.
Is anti-Semitic Phil talking bad about Gryphen and IM posters again?
DeleteIt's really interesting how Phil judges everyone when he is so transparent with his own agenda. And misinformed (or uninformed) and biased himself.
Is this a " dirty lie" Phil as in dirty Jew?
Interesting you are trolling here....
Go back to church and learn the UU principles AGAIN
NICE to see the Gryphen boots to strike again.
Deletebtw the name is rumpelstilksen.
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Deletewhysenhymer • a day ago
Oh yeah and James Clapper should be hung as a traitor.
KenG • a day ago
Either we have a constitution, or we don't. If we allow exceptions to it for political reasons (since terrorism kills far less people than guns or cars or alcohol, the focus on addressing it by violating the constitution can only be attributed to political fears), then we don't have a constitution, we have flexible guidelines that can be modified as needed by whoever is in power. What's so great about that kind of nation?
JoshINHB KenG • a day ago
Terrorism also kills fewer Americans than swimming pools, aspirin or the flu.
Aahari JoshINHB • a day ago
we need wage an all out war on pool, aspirin and the flu as well!!! Where are the Blackhawks and drones?
mrmouth JoshINHB • 18 hours ago
And none of those, aside from a global flu pandemic, could cost the US $2 trillion in lost revenue, in one single, very bad day.
It was never about people getting killed. It's about the vulnerabilities of the global monetary system. Because that $2 trillion in lost revenues from the stock market, lost airline revenue, etc, etc, ballooned to $3 trillion when you factor in the global cost. In other words, backwards guys in hijacked airliners cost the US $2 trillion, and cost the rest of the industrialized world another $1 trillion on top of that - in one single morning.
And what's more; the article is a complete straw man. More pandering to people who dont trust their government. In reality, they've never really done bad by me. Or you.
Judging the need for something like this from your couch isnt the most intelligent thing. That is why you elect people you believe you can trust.
KenG mrmouth • 17 hours ago
There's a huge difference between revenue and market cap, and there's no way any terrorist act cost $2 trillion. Lost market cap also does not translate into lost wealth; it's only lost when the stocks are sold at a loss. Additionally, any changes in the price of most stocks are transient, and not permanent.
The airlines were already hemorrhaging money on 9/11; the hijacked flights were mostly empty. The airlines were operating too many flights, and their losses had little to do with 9/11. In fact, that event turned out to be the catalyst for the airlines getting rid of unprofitable flights.
If you want to talk about economic terrorism, let's talk about the gross incompetence of the financial industry in the last decade. The losses they caused were orders of magnitude greater than, and had far more impact on our society, than any terrorist act the great spying program is supposed to prevent.
@ 2:58pm
DeleteYou can join Phil. I'm sure he NEEDS the company.
Thanks for your lengthy comment.
DeleteHarm done by banksters: Yes.
Harm done by the Cheneys: Yes.
Harm done by Snowy: at this point speculative.
And who is hunted by the government of the people and by the people?
btw in one respect I agree with all GRYPHEN boots:
Deletenice cheeks!
Regards
Rumpelstisken
Do you mean "bots?"
DeleteNo,
Deletebots are for Palyn; will never smear GRYPHEN supporters with that name.
WikiLeaks: Edward Snowden Places 6 More Asylum Applications
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/05/wikileaks-edward-snowden_n_3551231.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/edward-snowden-nsa-93742.html?ml=po_r
DeleteBy PHILIP EWING | 7/5/13 5:01 AM EDT
Edward Snowden’s nightmare may be coming true.
Not exile; not the danger of imprisonment or prosecution; and not his newfound association with dictators, lawyers and impresarios.
Snowden’s worst fear, by his own account, was that “nothing will change.”
“People will see in the media all these disclosures, they’ll know the lengths the government is going to grant themselves powers, unilaterally, to create greater control over American society and global society,” he told The Guardian last month after he’d asked it to identify him as its source. “But they won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things, to force their representatives to actually take a stand in their interests.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/edward-snowden-nsa-93742.html#ixzz2YDVpg0dM
His greatest fear is that he will fade into obscurity.
DeleteJUNEAU, Alaska — Democratic Sen. Mark Begich probably couldn't ask for a better start in his re-election campaign, with the state Republican Party emerging from a chaotic year and gearing up for a divisive primary as it hunts for a strong challenger to run against him.
ReplyDeleteEven so, the freshman senator – who has a political pedigree, a wad of campaign cash and a reputation as a scrappy campaigner – brushes off the notion of anything short of a tough race toward the 2014 election even as he casts himself as a moderate in hopes of attracting voters from across the political spectrum.
"We're going to continue doing what I have been doing the last four-plus years, working hard for Alaska on many fronts," Begich says. "And at the end of the day voters will decide on have we done a good job and have we delivered for Alaska."
He adds: "Obviously, I'm biased; I think the answer is yes."
Republicans, who need to gain six seats to win Senate control, will try to spend the next year and a half arguing that the answer is actually "no."
Not that their job will be easy.
Infighting has rocked the state GOP over the past year. First, Ron Paul supporters took control of the organization, with a huge showing at the state convention. Then, establishment-backed Republicans ousted the chairman and vice chairman amid accusations of anemic fundraising.
The state's new GOP chairman, Peter Goldberg, says the turmoil is "behind us now." But he also acknowledges that the party is expecting a primary fight as it searches for a strong challenger to take on Begich, and he expresses confidence that Republicans will rally around their eventual nominee.
The question is who will it be?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/05/alaska-senate-race-2014_n_3550217.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
Dearest Anna,
ReplyDeleteEdward is unavailable at this time. So you can marry me instead.
A 36-year CIA veteran, Earnest said he was struck by how much of the media and public attention has focused on Snowden and how little had settled on the NSA and other programs that America’s top spies have had to acknowledge. On Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper even apologized to Feinstein in a public letter for giving her committee “erroneous” information.
ReplyDelete“People seem very muted in their reaction to what he’s disclosed,” Earnest said of Snowden. “You know, you tell people the nature of these programs, some of the others, and people say, ‘So?’”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/edward-snowden-nsa-93742_Page2.html#ixzz2YDWiULwR
Clapper lied to Congress, but evidently, that is OK with us because we like our 4th Amendment rights being removed from us.
Clapper works for the military industrial complex, not for you and me.
DeleteSo do most in Congress.
After billions spend to get a few hundred, mostly Saudy terrorists, the insecurity apparatus turns on us.
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1 Trillion Spent -10 Plots Foiled - That's 100 Billion Each Plot -The Intelligence Complex Is A Money Making - Fear Machine - #*snowden*
#*nsa*
Sweet Cheeks has some sweet cheeks. I'd hit it.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you fell for that photo.
ReplyDeleteObviously photoshopped pic of Sarah Palin with Chapman's head on it.
Men.. sheeh!!
Cheeks are what cheeks are. Could you please cut us some slack, Anita?
Deletebtw did you carefully read all those comments which don't agree with Gryphen and his boots? Methinks Gryphen's approach to this very complicated story is as it would be a simple Palyn saga.
A young woman who has 'DANCED HER ASS OFF ' on DWTS should have a body like that, not like 'MISS PIGGY'.
ReplyDeleteRight, Bristol?
Venezuela And Nicaragua Have Offered Asylum To Edward Snowden
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/online/venezuela-and-nicaragua-have-offered-asylum-to-edward-snowden/
Snowden decides to make a deal and trade in what he has for what is behind curtain #3 and will be zonked
DeleteThat shows all those other democratic countries up for what they are doing:
Deletecowering under the boot of US.
France, Spain and Portugal: We Didn’t Deny Landing Rights to Morales’ Plane
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Kremlin Has No Idea If Former Spy Anna Chapman's Marriage Proposal To Edward Snowden Is Serious
ReplyDeletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/anna-chapmans-proposes-to-edward-snowden-2013-7
How Did Snowden Make It Through The Federal Background Check System?
ReplyDeleteBefore Edward Snowden began leaking national security secrets, he twice cleared the hurdle of the federal government’s background check system — first at the CIA, then as a systems analyst at the National Security Agency.
Snowden’s path into secretive national security jobs has raised concerns about the system that outsources many of the government’s most sensitive background checks to an army of private investigators and pays hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts to companies that employ them.
“You can’t outsource national security,” said Robert Baer, a former CIA veteran who worked in a succession of agency stations in the Mideast. “As long as we depend on the intel-industrial complex for vetting, we’re going to get more Snowdens.”
The company with the biggest share of contracts is under a federal investigation into possible criminal violations involving its oversight of background checks, officials familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-did-snowden-make-it-through-the-federal-background-check-system.php?ref=fpa
Good question!
ReplyDeleteAnd how did Clapper make it?
Doe's clapper keep his job after lying to Congress?
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