Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth"

wjcofkc writes "In the turbulent wake of the international uproar spurred by his leaked documents, Mr. Snowden published a letter over the weekend in Der Spiegel titled, "A Manifesto for the Truth". In the letter, Mr. Snowden reflects on the consequences of the information released so far, and their effect on exposing the extent and obscenity of international and domestic surveillance, while continuing to call out the NSA and GCHQ as the worst offenders. He further discusses how the debate should move forward, the intimidation of journalists, and the criminalization of the truth saying, 'Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.'"

Comments

theres a drone with his name on it

[peter303]

Might as well get all his thoughts published while he has a chance.

why didnt Snowden use Wikileaks???

[globaljustin]

Snowden is a dupe who was tricked into spying for global money interests.

He was high off the smell of his own farts...intellectually, *he is being reductive with the concept of government secrecy*

The response to Snowden has been mostly to blame Obama. Even though most of the privacy invading policies were polices of GEORGE W BUSH (patriot act, warrentless wiretaps, etc etc)

To falsify my point, if Snowden really was what he wants us to think he was (an honest, aw shucks I just want to help whistleblower) then he would have used his precious Wikileaks to get the information out.

Wikileaks has released tons of info secretly and Snowden sure as hell knew it existed...

Re:why didnt Snowden use Wikileaks???

[SlippyToad]

I think Snowden as a tool is about the picture that I'm getting too.

He's a very foolish young man, and he's totally fucking ruined his life and now is trying to regain some credibility. But the sad fact is, he's also betraying his country. I do not see anything noble in what he's done: I knew everything he was saying before he said it. All he's done is pull a great big LOOOK AT MEEEEEEEE and run streaking across the public square.

Re:how long

[GodfatherofSoul]

Well, Hitler won Man of the Year so anything's possible.

Re:how long

[johnlcallaway]

The only gold medal he deserves is a bag of flour. And only a coupon for one. Snowden hasn't sacrificed jack squat, he is now far more famous than he ever was, has thousands if not millions of groupies, and can probably get paid thousands of dollars for writing a crappy book or for speaking engagements. He probably no longer even as to work. Same holds true for Agassi.


I sure wish there was a volume control so I could turn off all news items that even mention his name. Except the one where he is sent back to the US to face the consequences of his actions.