{"id":38323,"date":"2013-11-07T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38323"},"modified":"2013-11-07T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:18:27","slug":"uk-spies-al-qaeda-love-them-some-eddie-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38323","title":{"rendered":"UK spies: al Qaeda love them some Eddie Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that British spymasters told legislators there that al Qaeda is taking advantage of the intelligence that Eddie Snowden gave to the media;<\/p>\n

Iain Lobban, chief of the eavesdropping agency GCHQ, said his spies have picked up “near-daily discussion” of the unauthorized disclosures among his agency’s targets. His colleague John Sawers, the chief of the British foreign spy agency MI6, was even more explicit.<\/p>\n

“It’s clear that our adversaries are rubbing their hands in glee,” he told lawmakers. “Al-Qaida is lapping it up.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Snowden has agree to testify about NSA surveillance for the Germans, according Agency France Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is ready to assist a German probe into US spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel but also wants to talk directly to the US Congress, a German lawmaker who met the fugitive said Friday.<\/p>\n

Snowden had late on Thursday met German Green party lawmaker Hans-Christian Stroebele at an undisclosed location in Moscow to discuss his revelations that Washington for years monitored Merkel’s mobile phone, which has caused an uproar in Europe.<\/p>\n

On his return to Germany, Stroebele published a letter from Snowden and said the American was ready to testify to the US Congress to shed light on “possibly serious offences”.<\/p>\n

The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, who began work at an undisclosed Russian Internet firm on Friday, was granted asylum in Russia in August to the fury of the United States, where he faces trial on charges under the Espionage Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, wait a second, didn’t Snowden initially say that he was more than willing to face justice in the US? So why is he only willing to testify to the US Congress in Germany?<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a> reports that Snowden now thinks that his actions are justified by calls for reform in Congress. Well, junior if you were justified, why not face a jury of your peers;<\/p>\n

In “A Manifesto for the Truth” published in German news magazine Der Spiegel on Sunday, Snowden said current debates about mass surveillance in many countries showed his revelations were helping to bring about change.<\/p>\n

“Instead of causing damage, the usefulness of the new public knowledge for society is now clear because reforms to politics, supervision and laws are being suggested,” the 30-year-old ex-CIA employee and NSA contractor wrote.<\/p>\n

“Citizens have to fight against the suppression of information about affairs of essential importance for the public. Those who speak the truth are not committing a crime.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Eddie, what you’re doing is not fighting, it’s running and hiding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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