Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @kenvogel: Lots of troubling details in this story about a government surveillance program targeting journalists. Perhaps most troublin… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@janawinter @RonWyden He wasn't joking. With time, I've come to realize it's less of an NSA-problem than a people-problem. But that's not very comforting when you consider the size of the government, and what happens when you get a critical mass of those people in a very powerful, very quiet office. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@janawinter @RonWyden I spoke too broadly there, because this particular attitude problem, of course, is not a universal attribute, and there are many good people in government. But I will never forget how openly—and how regularly—a colleague used to advocate for dropping people out of helicopters. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@janawinter @RonWyden No matter how classified the environment, government jobs attract government workers. The difference between the working-level and policy-level folks is, to an embarrassing degree, mostly just the awareness to avoid saying the quiet part out loud. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@janawinter @RonWyden In my experience, the, uh, "cavalier" working-level environment that Rambo describes isn't *entirely* an ass-covering construction (although there's clearly an element of that). It's strikingly consistent with what I saw at both NSA and CIA. Very "boys will be boys." — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @Schwartzesque: When it comes to mass surveillance, we tend to focus on the threat of top-down totalitarianism and underestimate the thr… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@janawinter "Violating the Constitution." Profoundly disturbing to see the intentionally-flawed legal argument that provoked all those Lassie-barks from @RonWyden (about a "backdoor search loophole") has spread so far that even the bottom-of-the-bucket CBP is abusing it. Great story. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Read this. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

CBP abused intelligence databases to trawl through the private lives of 15-20 American journalists in a manner that the Inspector General reported it to the Justice Department as a criminal conspiracy. But the government refused to prosecute. https://t.co/eVGvh6QFIW — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @Snowden: "Fine, whatever — I just don't like the bastard," admits another, "Assange deserves to suffer." The arbitrary punishment of t… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @jdakwar: Biden’s convening of #SummitForDemocracy while his administration pursuing indictment for essentially a conduct that journalis… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @jdakwar: If President Biden and his Department of Justice are truly committed to press freedom at home and abroad they should immediate… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @justinamash: What the U.S. government is doing to Julian Assange puts all journalists at risk and undermines press freedom. He faces pr… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @rebecca_vincent: Today should have been a day to celebrate. I am delighted that two wonderful journalists have won the Nobel. But I’m f… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @democracynow: In a major blow to press freedom worldwide, a U.K. court ruled Julian Assange can be extradited to the U.S. to face Espio… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

It is because I love my country that I seek to reform its government. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

"Fine, whatever — I just don't like the bastard," admits another, "Assange deserves to suffer." The arbitrary punishment of those unlike you for the crime of being unlike you is the very heart of the fascism you claim to oppose. Free societies are founded on tolerance. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @kgosztola: President Biden's administration cannot reasonably claim to support principles of democracy and human rights while at same t… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @Snowden: "But her emails," demands the partisan. "Russia!" The charges against Assange have nothing to do with either. As even @NYTime… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

"But her emails," demands the partisan. "Russia!" The charges against Assange have nothing to do with either. As even @NYTimes puts it, the government's case is against the award-winning "2010 publication of diplomatic and military files leaked by Chelsea Manning." — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

"Not a journalist," chants the mob, unwittingly lobbying for the rights to speak and publish to be afforded only to a class of corporate media businesses consecrated by the state. It doesn't matter if Assange is a hobo on a soapbox: the First Amendment protects everyone equally. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Julian Assange is one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the western world. Every level of the case against him has been shot through with corruption and the abuse of process. People justify it by reciting memes to demonstrate their allegiance. This is dystopia. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @kgosztola: Worse than hypocrisy. By pushing Assange (a publisher) one big step closer to extradition on Human Rights Day, US govt is ef… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @FreedomofPress: Freedom of the Press Foundation response to UK High Court ruling allowing extradition of Wikileaks publisher Julian Ass… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @FreedomofPress: REMINDER: Virtually every civil liberties org has urged the Biden admin to drop its Assange charges to protect press fr… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @pressfreedom: CPJ is deeply disappointed by a British court’s decision to uphold the United States Justice Department’s appeal to extra… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @PatrickCToomey: As Judge Lucero wrote in dissent, the “vast scope” of this warrantless spying threatens to eviscerate Fourth Amendment… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

This is a very big deal, and not in a good way. The dissenting judge argues this "extreme departure from accepted constitutional and procedural law" ignores all evidence and totally abandons the Fourth Amendment. The year has not been kind to the legitimacy of our court system. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @evan_greer: Someone please show this tweet to MSNBC-loving Dems who continue to claim that Snowden is somehow shilling for Putin by cri… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@Lulz44515721 They're only able to block access for people connecting through Russian internet service providers, which they control. Even there, the block is only partial and incomplete, because Tor was designed to be censorship-resistant. — PolitiTweet.org