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Edward Snowden says his biggest fear is that the risk he has taken to expose what NSA is doing to the American people, will be in vain. He wants others to step forward and reveal what they know.
He says he has come forward to stop turn key Tyranny.
Edward Joseph Snowden, 29, knew full well the risks he had undertaken and the awesome powers that would soon be arrayed to hunt for him. Pseudonyms were the least of his precautions as we corresponded from afar. Snowden was spilling some of the most sensitive secrets of a surveillance apparatus he had grown to detest. By late last month, he believed he was already “on the X” — exposure imminent.
“I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end,” he wrote in early May, before we had our first direct contact. He warned that even journalists who pursued his story were at risk until they published.
The U.S. intelligence community, he wrote, “will most certainly kill you if they think you are the single point of failure that could stop this disclosure and make them the sole owner of this information.”
I did not believe that literally, but I knew he had reason to fear.
A series of indirect contacts preceded our first direct exchange May 16. Snowden was not yet ready to tell me his name, but he said he was certain to be exposed — by his own hand or somebody else’s. Until then, he asked that I not quote him at length. He said semantic analysis, another of the NSA’s capabilities, would identify him by his patterns of language.
“You can’t protect the source,” he wrote, “but if you help me make the truth known, I will consider it a fair trade.” Later, he added, “There’s no saving me.”
I asked him, at the risk of estrangement, how he could justify exposing intelligence methods that might benefit U.S. adversaries.
“Perhaps I am naive,” he replied, “but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.” The steady expansion of surveillance powers, he wrote, is “such a direct threat to democratic governance that I have risked my life and family for it.”
While the media is busy arguing about whether this man is a hero or traitor, I don’t give a flip.
He is not the story..
The story is the fact that every single day we are seeing the results of what happens when you give the United States Federal Government an inch… it takes a mile..
He is revealing what most of us already know… that spying on the american people is big governent business.
Citizens who are willing to give up liberty for the sake of security DESERVE NEITHER..
With the Patriot Act and NDAA, we gave a corrupt government permission to hammer away at the foundation of liberty in this country.
Republicans and Democrats who supported both failed the citizens.
©2013 JAN MORGAN
Read more at The Washington Post
Edward Snowden says his biggest fear is that the risk he has taken to expose what NSA is doing to the American people, will be in vain. He wants others to step forward and reveal what they know.
He says he has come forward to stop turn key Tyranny.
Edward Joseph Snowden, 29, knew full well the risks he had undertaken and the awesome powers that would soon be arrayed to hunt for him. Pseudonyms were the least of his precautions as we corresponded from afar. Snowden was spilling some of the most sensitive secrets of a surveillance apparatus he had grown to detest. By late last month, he believed he was already “on the X” — exposure imminent.
“I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end,” he wrote in early May, before we had our first direct contact. He warned that even journalists who pursued his story were at risk until they published.
The U.S. intelligence community, he wrote, “will most certainly kill you if they think you are the single point of failure that could stop this disclosure and make them the sole owner of this information.”
I did not believe that literally, but I knew he had reason to fear.
A series of indirect contacts preceded our first direct exchange May 16. Snowden was not yet ready to tell me his name, but he said he was certain to be exposed — by his own hand or somebody else’s. Until then, he asked that I not quote him at length. He said semantic analysis, another of the NSA’s capabilities, would identify him by his patterns of language.
“You can’t protect the source,” he wrote, “but if you help me make the truth known, I will consider it a fair trade.” Later, he added, “There’s no saving me.”
I asked him, at the risk of estrangement, how he could justify exposing intelligence methods that might benefit U.S. adversaries.
“Perhaps I am naive,” he replied, “but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.” The steady expansion of surveillance powers, he wrote, is “such a direct threat to democratic governance that I have risked my life and family for it.”
While the media is busy arguing about whether this man is a hero or traitor, I don’t give a flip.
He is not the story..
The story is the fact that every single day we are seeing the results of what happens when you give the United States Federal Government an inch… it takes a mile..
He is revealing what most of us already know… that spying on the american people is big governent business.
Citizens who are willing to give up liberty for the sake of security DESERVE NEITHER..
With the Patriot Act and NDAA, we gave a corrupt government permission to hammer away at the foundation of liberty in this country.
Republicans and Democrats who supported both failed the citizens.
©2013 JAN MORGAN
Read more at The Washington Post
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