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December 25, 2013 · 10:51 am

Edward Snowden – “An Indoor Cat” in Russia with a Christmas message

“As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated,” Snowden told the Post. “Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”

Go here. Every year Channel Four in the UK posts an alternative to the Queen‘s Christmas message. This year Edward Snowden. Interesting message…remarkable guy. Absolutely fascinating story that will continue to unfold throughout the year.

Go here. From the Washington Post. Edward Snowden in a fourteen hour interview, his first such interview since going to Russia in June.

“He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake.”

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December 17, 2013 · 6:30 am

Edward Snowden is on the move

Two huge developments in the Edward Snowden saga that you might like to check out.

Go here. A federal district judge ruled on Monday that the National Security Agency program that is systematically keeping records of all Americans’ phone calls most likely violates the Constitution, describing its technology as “almost Orwellian” and suggesting that James Madison would be “aghast” to learn that the government was encroaching on liberty in such a way.

Go here. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wrote in “an open letter to the Brazilian people” that he would be willing to help Brazil’s government investigate U.S. spying on its soil, but that he could do so only if granted political asylum. “I’ve expressed my willingness to assist where it’s appropriate and legal, but, unfortunately, the U.S. government has been working hard to limit my ability to do so. Until a country grants me permanent political asylum, the U.S. government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak out,” the letter added.

Go here. Spend a little time in D.C. and it isn’t long before you discover that even the busses are political.

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December 6, 2013 · 6:48 am

SCI Issue #1 – Wiki Leaks, Assange, Manning, and Snowden

• For this study we will begin here with a 2011 Frontline Investigation “WikiSecrets”. Go here to access Wiki leaks.

• Bradley Manning stands at the center of the biggest military intelligence breach in U.S. history — the leaking of more than a half million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website throughout 2010. Bradley E. Manning, was the Army intelligence analyst who’s charged with handing them over. Who is Bradley Manning, and what does his story tell us about how and why the secret cache of documents may have been leaked? In WikiSecrets, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith gains exclusive access to those closest to Manning Smith also examines the events surrounding the publication of the leaked documents, interviewing key players like WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; Assange’s former colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg; and Adrian Lamo, a well-known figure in the cyber underground who eventually turned Manning over to the authorities and is now living in an undisclosed location over fears for his safety.

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