From the BBC, July 2 2013, (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23158242)
"Mr. Snowden is wanted by the US on charges of leaking secrets he gathered while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), America's electronic spying agency."
Man, I feel like shit seeing that written out, "America's electronic spying agency." From the time of our birth, our politicians tell us that we live in the greatest country on earth, where we will be as free as possible and have the best chances to better ourselves, a tradition of America's leadership and politicians probably since the inception of this country. Yet, we have a spying agency, just like Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union and many other countries written about very unfavorably in the history books. Incidentally, these countries also had warrantless surveillance and secret courts, and spying agencies...I don't like where this is headed...
Fortunately, three countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Bolivia, have declared that they will offer asylum to Snowden.
More reading:
About how stupidly US government officials are reacting to Snowden and past whistleblowers...http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/05/blowback-white-house-whistleblowers
A recent NSA recuitement at the University of Wisconsin: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/05/national-security-agency-recruitment-drive
http://mobandmultitude.com/2013/07/02/the-nsa-comes-recruiting/
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