Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower -- New York Times editorial
Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, their friends and contacts, how they spend their days and where they spend their nights. The public learned in great detail how the agency has exceeded its mandate and abused its authority, prompting outrage at kitchen tables and at the desks of Congress, which may finally begin to limit these practices.
The revelations have already prompted two federal judges to accuse the N.S.A. of violating the Constitution (although a third, unfortunately, found the dragnet surveillance to be legal). A panel appointed by President Obama issued a powerful indictment of the agency’s invasions of privacy and called for a major overhaul of its operations.
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My Comment: So .... the "newspaper of record" is now finally taking sides. The New York Times has now realized what this blog has been talking about for the past few months .... Edward Snowden should be offered a "deal" to come back to the U.S. and provide testimony on NSA abuses. He must also cease and desist all NSA revelations. I am sure that he would take such an offer .... I am also sure that his testimony will be invaluable in providing some insight on the reforms that America's intelligence community clearly needs.
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New York Times - "the newspaper of record" as WNU editor put it aptly - demanding that Edward Snowden be classified as a "Whistle Blower" has nothing to with "taking sides" or deal making for NSA data, Snowden's immunity or cease & desist of surveillance revelations. It only has one objective: NYT's heb-lawyers told the editorial board that the dying print newspaper model wants immunity from prosecution and divert the NSA issues from Private-Company Surveillance and damage control by "Manufacturing Consent" and focusing on the age old "First Amendment Fight."
We have seen this game being played with Pentagon Papers where the use the more bombs than the entire ordnance of both Allied and Axis Forces of WWII in Europe, America, Pacific, Atlantic, North Africa and Asia put together were dropped on a land the size of American state of Maryland or New Jersey in Vietnam were deliberately sidetracked and dismantled from any conversation or policy.
Instead the Jew Media. Heb-Lawyers and Jew-Banker's Wall Street that paid for the Vietnam War forced the conversation around RAND Corporation's military analyst "Whistle BLower and Circumcised White Jew" - Daniel Ellsberg's personal issues from treason, sexuality, mental state, having sex in front of his children and most importantly the "FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS" of the 4th Estate to publish CLASSIFIED MATERIALS for which newspapers across America could be prosecuted under various treason and anti-government acts.
That Napalm Girl in Vietnam would have been bombed by either Ayn 'Jew' Rand Bandwagon of Capitalists or Karl 'Jew' Marx Bandwagon of Communists whether her Asian and Brown skin supported White Jewish Capitalism or White Jewish Communism. ODNI is yet to answer me on that rhetorical question. So is Wall Street. So is Silicon Valley, all amiss and MIA.
NO! No, there will not be any deals with Snowden and there will NOT be any Cease & Desist on exposing the Surveillance Activities of Technology Firms and ODNI/NSA. Nor will there be any suppression of information regarding the Material and Goods Interceptions by Fedex/UPS/DHL/USPS, which as WNU editor noted has gone rather quietly, abnormally.
The consequence of Surveillance in the name of Marketing, Advertisement, Finance, and finally, National Security will bear full brunt even if that means the Newspapers such as NYT, Guardian and countries such as Israel, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China, United States of America, United Kingdom and Spain be dismantled from Nation-Statehood. Not that it will happen.
If I DO NOT have a fundamental right to exist neither does statehood of Israel nor any institution be it New York Times, NSA, FedEx, Google.
The Case of Edward Snowden has PROVED that if the individual can threaten and be threatened by the existence of any organization be it statehood or institution, then such a stateless and deinstitutionalized person is proof that states and institutions can be deconstructed from its existence.
The old theory that an institution is larger than the organization is OBSOLETE. There shall NEVER AGAIN be a mandate that all persons in Roman Empire be Roman, let alone in Rome. Nie Wieder! Never Again!"
We saw Snowden sending signals earlier that he's interested in a deal. I think the NYT article is the administrations answer.
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