Friday, January 17, 2014

Some U.S. Spies Want NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Dead

Snowden’s Russian refugee document. Maxim Shemetov / Reuters

America’s Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead -- Buzz Feed

“I would love to put a bullet in his head,” one Pentagon official told BuzzFeed. The NSA leaker is enemy No. 1 among those inside the intelligence world.

Edward Snowden has made some dangerous enemies. As the American intelligence community struggles to contain the public damage done by the former National Security Agency contractor’s revelations of mass domestic spying, intelligence operators have continued to seethe in very personal terms against the 30-year-old whistle-blower.

“In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself,” a current NSA analyst told BuzzFeed. “A lot of people share this sentiment.”

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Update #1: Some US Spies Are Saying They Would Love To Kill Edward Snowden -- SFGate/Business Insider
Update #2: Op-Ed: U.S. spies calling for Snowden’s death -- Digital Journal

My Comment: Even U.S. intelligence chiefs (current and former) have joked that they would like to see Edward Snowden on a kill list.

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