This is an excellent little piece of film made by Laura Poitras, published in August 2012, almost a whole year before Snowden fled to Moscow.
At 6 mins 44 secs "Top Justice Department officials threatened to resign in 2004 because Stellar Wind violated the law. Their legal objections to the programme are not public."
Now listen, at 5 mins 29 secs, to Laura Poitras talking about her and Glenn Greenwald's meeting with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in July 2013, ...
... and ask yourself "Was an employee of an NSA contractor arranging to meet two known prime targets of state surveillance at the same time consistent with the "borderline paranoia" about being spied on whilst entering his password into a computer connected to the Internet? And where did The Guardian get this photo of a chica learning how to use a smartphone? (The FT, perhaps. In this clip, Morales doesn't say just that there are consultations going on, he says "He's asking his friend, his friend in the US, for sure.")
Here's AP's report "Morales arrives home after his plane was diverted on suspicion he was hiding Snowden"
And this short ten minute talk Binney gave at the Oxford Union in 2013 tells you everything you need to know. But you need to listen to what he says and actually think about what you hear! For example, when he says, if the FBI and the Department of Justice, that they're undermining democracy and justice all over the world. What does that mean to you? And what does that mean to someone who has dedicated their life to fighting attempts to undermine democracy and justice?
This FT report is interesting. It includes the US Envoy complaining about the Chinese government's lack of cooperation in arresting Snowden in Hong Kong. He is apparently unaware of the fact that Hong Kong has a different legal system to mainland China.
Assange says that the discussions he had about Bolivian President Morales were just "code talk" to conceal the identity of Nicolas Maduro, who had just been elected President in Venezuela, and who had offered Snowden asylum there.
At 6 mins 30 secs, Evo Morales' jet was refuelling in the Canary Islands. That's interesting.
But as regards the US intelligence "man-hunt" for Snowden, it seems overwhelmingly likely, to me, that this was just a giant smokescreen that they put up to make a "thing" out of nothing much at all, and Greenwald, Assange, and Democracy Now! and dozens of others played along with them. And what do we know as a result? Well, slightly less than Bill Binney explained in 2012, it seems, but what has been achieved is preventing anybody from doing anything about the problem for seven years. Well done everybody! Fucking marvellous job! Give yourselves all a pseudo-liberal pat on your pseudo-liberal backs, and then fuck off and die!
At 6 mins 44 secs "Top Justice Department officials threatened to resign in 2004 because Stellar Wind violated the law. Their legal objections to the programme are not public."
Now listen, at 5 mins 29 secs, to Laura Poitras talking about her and Glenn Greenwald's meeting with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in July 2013, ...
... and ask yourself "Was an employee of an NSA contractor arranging to meet two known prime targets of state surveillance at the same time consistent with the "borderline paranoia" about being spied on whilst entering his password into a computer connected to the Internet? And where did The Guardian get this photo of a chica learning how to use a smartphone? (The FT, perhaps. In this clip, Morales doesn't say just that there are consultations going on, he says "He's asking his friend, his friend in the US, for sure.")
Here's AP's report "Morales arrives home after his plane was diverted on suspicion he was hiding Snowden"
And this short ten minute talk Binney gave at the Oxford Union in 2013 tells you everything you need to know. But you need to listen to what he says and actually think about what you hear! For example, when he says, if the FBI and the Department of Justice, that they're undermining democracy and justice all over the world. What does that mean to you? And what does that mean to someone who has dedicated their life to fighting attempts to undermine democracy and justice?
This FT report is interesting. It includes the US Envoy complaining about the Chinese government's lack of cooperation in arresting Snowden in Hong Kong. He is apparently unaware of the fact that Hong Kong has a different legal system to mainland China.
Assange says that the discussions he had about Bolivian President Morales were just "code talk" to conceal the identity of Nicolas Maduro, who had just been elected President in Venezuela, and who had offered Snowden asylum there.
At 6 mins 30 secs, Evo Morales' jet was refuelling in the Canary Islands. That's interesting.
But as regards the US intelligence "man-hunt" for Snowden, it seems overwhelmingly likely, to me, that this was just a giant smokescreen that they put up to make a "thing" out of nothing much at all, and Greenwald, Assange, and Democracy Now! and dozens of others played along with them. And what do we know as a result? Well, slightly less than Bill Binney explained in 2012, it seems, but what has been achieved is preventing anybody from doing anything about the problem for seven years. Well done everybody! Fucking marvellous job! Give yourselves all a pseudo-liberal pat on your pseudo-liberal backs, and then fuck off and die!
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