Edward Snowden is declaring vindication. I’m still a critic, but I can’t blame him. Seven years after the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the US intelligence leaders who publicly defended… Read more.
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UK Arrests Wikileaker Julian Assange (for Extradition to US) … Finally!
A little background on this international farce seems warranted. Accordingly, here is what I wrote nearly eight years ago in “Ecuador Grants Wikileaker Julian Assange Asylum … in London,” August 20, 2012: ____________________ Such is the nature of groupthink among Western commentators that you’d be hard-pressed to find any who oppose, as I do, Ecuador’s… Read more.
Bradley Manning ‘Not Guilty,’ but Still Faces Life in Prison?
Given media reports on his arrest three years ago, you’d think Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (25) posed a far greater threat to U.S. national security than Osama bin Laden. Recall that the government charged Manning with all manner of crimes, including the treasonous “aiding the enemy” for handing over hundreds of thousands of classified documents… Read more.