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Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden
Ars Technica reports, probably to no one's surprise, that U.S. elected officials are unlikely to start seeing Edward Snowden as a righteous whistleblower rather than a traitor to the U.S. government. From the article:"[Sunday], the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and her House counterpart, Mike Rogers (R-MI), both emphasized there would be no mercy coming from Washington. 'He was trusted; he stripped our system; he had an opportunity—if what he was, was a whistle-blower—to pick up the phone and call the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and say I have some information,' Feinstein told CBS' Face The Nation. 'But that didn’t happen. He’s done this enormous disservice to our country, and I think the answer is no clemency.'"
" ... pick up the phone and call the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and say I have some information,' Feinstein told CBS' Face The Nation."
You mean the House and Senate Intelligence Committees didn't know about this already? Aren't they in charge? Don't they make the rules? Didn't they say, and aren't they still saying, that it's all legal? In what alternate universe would Snowden think telling the intelligence committees would change anything.
Feinstein thinks we're all ignorant idiots.
Yeah. It's a bit rich to complain of breach of trust when you've just been caught listening in on the phone calls of allied political leaders.
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It gets better.
The German parliament wants to interview him. The current discussion is wether he can come to Germany to do so. And maybe even stay here. There are rumors there may be a legal loophole to not extradite him to the US if he sets foot on German turf. There is a slim majority for that in the German parliament.
All this is obviously pretty hypothetical. What isn't hypothetical is the preemptive US extradition request that arrived pretty much immediately after this has hit the headlines.
20 minutes into the future
Snowden says there's nothing more he hasn't released yet. He's released all the data to the media. Now he's just commenting on what they release.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/
211 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-1700
We don't have to guess. There were people who tried to report problems the "right way", it didn't work.
Same goes with the Manning case. There were plenty of people that only reported injustices through the chain of command, nothing happened.
Indeed. See here if you're not sure.
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"There has to be a reason why the US hasn't sent in special forces to extricate Snowden already."
Well, of course there's a reason. The decision makers have brains that are at least as large as their balls. WTF, you think we could send a hit team into Russia, to hit a high profile guest, without repercussions? Repercussions such as a couple dozen dead American special forces being displayed on television by Russian television?
Derp . . . .
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