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Edward Snowden's leaks cause editorial split at the Washington Post

Roy Greenslade
Raw Story
Fri, 05 Jul 2013 10:57 UTC
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US paper accused of facing both ways over NSA whistleblower

Edward Snowden's whistle-blowing activities have not only split America's journalistic community, it appears to have split the Washington Post's staff too.

In a surprising editorial, "Plugging the leaks in the Edward Snowden case", the paper argued that the first priority should be to prevent Snowden "from leaking information that harms efforts to fight terrorism and conduct legitimate intelligence operations."

It pointed out that Snowden "is reported to have stolen many more documents, encrypted copies of which may have been given to allies such as the WikiLeaks organisation." And then it said:

"Stopping potentially damaging revelations or the dissemination of intelligence to adversaries should take precedence over US prosecution of Mr Snowden - which could enhance his status as a political martyr in the eyes of many both in and outside the United States."

And all this in the paper responsible for publishing Snowden's leaks. No wonder the facing-both-ways leading article moved syndicated newspaper columnist David Sirota to comment on Salon.com:
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Star of David

Israeli security strip searches Arab journalist at U.S. July Fourth party

David Edwards
Raw Story
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 10:54 UTC
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Security guards for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stripped searched an Arab journalist working for the U.S.-funded Alhurra network at the the U.S. ambassador's Fourth of July celebration in Tel Aviv, the network said on Thursday.

The Arab satellite channel told The Associated Press that it had coordinated with Netanyahu's office, but security detained cameraman Samer Jallad when he arrived.

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who arrived late (was he stuck in traffic too?) waxed poetic about the meaning of freedom, liberty and justice for all," Haaretz reported. "This, as his security men outside, who clearly did not get the memo about the theme of the evening, reportedly detained and strip searched an Alhurra network cameraman who had arrived to cover the event."
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European states were told Snowden was on Morales plane, says Spain


Guardian
Fri, 05 Jul 2013 10:38 UTC
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© Zuma/Rex FeaturesPresident Evo Morales announced at the Union of South American Nations summit that Bolivia may close the US embassy in his country.
Spanish foreign minister declines to say where information came from that NSA whistleblower was on Bolivian leader's flight

Spain says it and other European countries were told that the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board the Bolivian presidential plane that was diverted to Austria this week, causing a diplomatic row.

The foreign minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, said on Spanish National Television on Friday that "they told us that the information was clear, that he was inside".

The minister did not say who supplied the information and declined to say whether he had been in contact with the United States. But he said European countries' reactions were based on this information.

The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, claims the US pressured European countries to deny the plane flyover permission on Tuesday on suspicion that Snowden was using the flight as part of his bid to seek asylum.

Morales has warned he might close the US embassy in his country over the forced landing, which he called a violation of international law. He had been returning from a summit in Russia during which he had suggested he would be willing to consider a request from Snowden for asylum.
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Vader

Bolivian President: U.S. 'imperialism' caused flight from Russia to be diverted


CBS DC
Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:32 UTC

Bolivian President Evo Morales blames the United States for his plane from Moscow being diverted to Vienna, Austria, Wednesday for a 14-hour layover after suspicions arose he was harboring National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

Returning home to a hero's welcome, Morales called it an "open provocation" to the South American continent after France, Spain and Portugal refused to let his plane pass through their airspace.

The United States and European allies "use the agent of North American imperialism to scare us and intimidate us," Morales said.

Morales added: "I regret this, but I want to say that some European countries should free themselves from North American imperialism."

The United States declined to comment on whether it was involved in any decision to close European airspace for Morales' plane.
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Vader

Former IMF and NSA agent John Perkins: We economic hitmen built the first truly global empire

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Al Jazeera
Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:56 UTC
John Perkins' best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), in which he claims to have played a role in the process of economic colonization of Third World countries on behalf of the nexus of corporations, banks, and shadow government agencies that works through the U.S. national security state to achieve full-spectrum dominance over all of life. Here he explains the basics to Riz Khan of Al Jazeera...

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USA

Al Qaeda-in-Iraq blows up innocents for America in new wave of attacks


Irish Independent
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 02:54 UTC
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© Associated PressAl Qaida-linked fighters have been targeting Iraqi Shiites
A series of attacks in Iraq has left at least 24 Shiites and five policeman dead. The violence has been blamed on insurgents trying to enflame the country's renewed sectarian tensions.

In one of the attacks on Shiites, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden motorcycle into a funeral tent for a family in the town of in Muqdadiyah, about 90 kilometres (60 miles) north of Baghdad, officials said. The explosion killed 13 people and wounded 24.

In the northern town of Dujail, about 80 kms (50 miles) from Baghdad, a parked car bomb went off outside a Shiite mosque. As people gathered around the blast site, another bomb went off. The twin bombing killed at least 11 people and wounded 25, said the town mayor.

The two attacks raised the overall death toll on Thursday from a series of attacks, which included assaults on police stations in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah west of Baghdad, to 40.

Sunni cleric Salah al-Nuaimi urged calm among Iraqis during a joint Sunni-Shiite Friday sermon in Baghdad aimed at easing sectarian tensions. "Enough is enough," al-Nuaimi told worshippers at a Baghdad mosque. "We all love Iraq, we are all Iraqis and we want to be united, we want to stop the bloodletting, develop and build Iraq.
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Bad Guys

Israel behind mystery attack on Syrian port - US sources


RT.com
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 22:47 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Jack GuezAn Israeli F-15 I fighter jet launches anti-missile flares.
US officials have revealed that explosions reported at a key Syrian port on July 5 were likely the result of an Israeli airstrike.

Three officials spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity, referring to the pre-dawn explosions in the city of Latakia as an Israeli operation which allegedly targeted Russian-made Yakhot anti-ship missiles.

The Yakhont is a cruise missile with a range of 300 kilometers, capable of delivering a warhead weighing in at 250 kilograms. Russia supplied Syria's armed forces with a Yakhont missile battery in 2011.

Shortly after the July 5 incident, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that "huge explosions shook the area where a large Syrian army base and weapons depots are located."

According to reports by the SOHR published by Haaretz, fighter jets were seen in the skies around the city of Al-Haffah, which lies east of Latakia. Several troops were reported as having been killed or wounded in the ensuing explosions.

Syrian rebels said on Tuesday that "foreign forces" had destroyed advanced anti-ship missiles in Latakia, but only hinted that Israel had been behind the attack, Arutz Sheva reported.

Qassem Saadeddine, spokesman for the Free Syrian Army's Supreme Military Council, reported that the rebels' intelligence network had identified missiles being stored in the depots which were hit.
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Dollars

Missing Money


Masters in Accounting Degrees
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:30 UTC
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Eye 1

NSA built back door in all Windows software by 1999


Washington Blog
Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:11 UTC

Government Built Spy-Access Into Most Popular Consumer Program Before 9/11

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In researching the stunning pervasiveness of spying by the government (it's much more wide spread than you've heard even now), we ran across the fact that the FBI wants software programmers to install a backdoor in all software.

Digging a little further, we found a 1999 article by leading European computer publication Heise which noted that the NSA had already built a backdoor into all Windows software:
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Wall Street

Edward Snowden requests asylum in Russia...while continuing to leak 'top secret documents' to the Guardian

Miriam Elder
The Guardian
Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:26 UTC
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© Tanya Lokshina/APEdward Snowden, centre, at a meeting with human rights activists at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
NSA whistleblower says he will stay in Russia until he can get safe passage to Latin America at meeting with activists

The US whistleblower Edward Snowden said he has renewed his request to seek political asylum in Russia on Friday, in a meeting with human rights activists at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport that marked his first appearance since he fled Hong Kong.

Snowden said he intended to stay in Russia until he could win safe passage to Latin America, according to Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch, who was at the meeting.

In a statement to the meeting, released through Wikileaks, Snowden said he had no regrets over what he had done.

Snowden has been trapped in a Moscow airport since arriving from Hong Kong on 23 June. He has made nearly two dozen requests for political asylum, most of which have been refused.

Comment: So Snowden wants asylum from Russia... while going against Putin's terms and continuing to release top-secret documents?...

Stop the presses! More top secret documents (leaked by Snowden?) show that Microsoft and the NSA conspired against the masses!

Some more on this story from RT:



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