Former CIA chief: Snowden should be “hanged by the neck until dead”

[devthedev]

I honestly respect FOX news a lot more than CNN.

[Wilikon]

I honestly respect FOX news a lot more than CNN.

Obviously the majority in the US do. Even fox news haters watch fox news, based on the numbers. CNN International was not bad until I heard everything middle Eastern related had to get approval from Amanpour first...

[devthedev]

I occasionally watch CNN to see a different standpoint on specific topics but generally only watch FOX.

[Wilikon]

US Attorney General Eric Holder indicated on Thursday that Washington would negotiate with lawyers for former NSA contractor Edward Snowden if he took responsibility for leaking classified documents that exposed the agency’s vast surveillance operations.

Holder said that should Snowden return to the US from Russia - where he has received temporary asylum - and enter a plea deal for disclosing sensitive information, the US Department of Justice “would engage in conversation.” Yet amnesty for Snowden, no matter his pure intentions of transparency, “would be going too far,” Holder said during an interview with MSNBC.

The Attorney General echoed those sentiments during a public event Thursday at the University of Virginia.

“We've always indicated that the notion of clemency isn't something that we were willing to consider. Instead, were he coming back to the US to enter a plea, we would engage with his lawyers,” he said.

When asked by MSNBC if Snowden, 30, should be considered a whistleblower, Holder said, "I prefer the term defendant. That's the most apt title."

http://rt.com/usa/snowden-holder-negotiations-clemency-111/

[Wilikon]

http://bcove.me/ypr72g3x

[U1TRA_L0RD]

Rusha just extended his asylum contract 

[Nik1ab]

I honestly respect FOX news a lot more than CNN.

They are all western propaganda machines so where's the difference?

[Wilikon]

I honestly respect FOX news a lot more than CNN.

They are all western propaganda machines so where's the difference?

They are different than the Asian, Persian, Arab, Russian, etc... propaganda machines.

[Nik1ab]

I honestly respect FOX news a lot more than CNN.

They are all western propaganda machines so where's the difference?

They are different than the Asian, Persian, Arab, Russian, etc... propaganda machines.

I meant the difference between fox and cnn.

[Wilikon]

I honestly respect FOX news a lot more than CNN.

They are all western propaganda machines so where's the difference?

They are different than the Asian, Persian, Arab, Russian, etc... propaganda machines.

I meant the difference between fox and cnn.

https://showyou.com/v/h-qrZTvJB52DR5GYJu/wrongnado-cnn

[Nik1ab]

And what should this link show me?

[marcus_of_augustus]

for former NSA contractor Edward Snowden if he took responsibility for leaking classified documents that exposed the agency’s vast surveillance operations.

... yeah, just as soon as NSA is going to take responsibility and consequences for violating and systematically undermining the Fourth Amendment and Rule Of Law ...

[Nik1ab]

for former NSA contractor Edward Snowden if he took responsibility for leaking classified documents that exposed the agency’s vast surveillance operations.

... yeah, just as soon as NSA is going to take responsibility and consequences for violating and systematically undermining the Fourth Amendment and Rule Of Law ...

Laws are irrelevant.

[Wilikon]

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper isn't the most popular guy in Washington these days. Support for reforming bulk surveillance continues to grow. More lawmakers are becoming convinced of the point of view of US Senator Ron Wyden: that Clapper lied to Congress when he denied that "any type of data at all" was being collected "on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans." On Monday, Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) and five other lawmakers sent a letter to President Obama saying Clapper should be fired.

It's unlikely that Clapper's comments today at a hearing of the US Senate Intelligence Committee will quiet things down at all. Clapper reiterated his position that the leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden are continuing to cause "profound damage" to the US security.

"Snowden claims that he’s won and that his mission is accomplished," said Clapper, according to a transcript of today's hearing published by The Washington Post. "If that is so, I call on him and his accomplices to facilitate the return of the remaining stolen documents that have not yet been exposed, to prevent even more damage to US security... The nation is less safe and its people less secure."

The use of the phrase "accomplices" caused several journalists to question who, exactly, Clapper was referring to. "I guess he means us?" tweeted Spencer Ackerman, national security editor at The Guardian.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/clapper-snowden-and-media-accomplices-should-return-our-documents/

[marcus_of_augustus]

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper isn't the most popular guy in Washington these days. Support for reforming bulk surveillance continues to grow. More lawmakers are becoming convinced of the point of view of US Senator Ron Wyden: that Clapper lied to Congress when he denied that "any type of data at all" was being collected "on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans." On Monday, Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) and five other lawmakers sent a letter to President Obama saying Clapper should be fired.

It's unlikely that Clapper's comments today at a hearing of the US Senate Intelligence Committee will quiet things down at all. Clapper reiterated his position that the leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden are continuing to cause "profound damage" to the US security.

"Snowden claims that he’s won and that his mission is accomplished," said Clapper, according to a transcript of today's hearing published by The Washington Post. "If that is so, I call on him and his accomplices to facilitate the return of the remaining stolen documents that have not yet been exposed, to prevent even more damage to US security... The nation is less safe and its people less secure."

The use of the phrase "accomplices" caused several journalists to question who, exactly, Clapper was referring to. "I guess he means us?" tweeted Spencer Ackerman, national security editor at The Guardian.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/clapper-snowden-and-media-accomplices-should-return-our-documents/

Isn't lying to congress perjury?

Why hasn't Clapper been charged or arrested yet?

These guys are operating in criminal territory, and have been for a long time I believe, all they do each time they get caught is to hoodwink Congress into passing new laws that cover up their previous crimes.

[Lethn]

Why hasn't Clapper been charged or arrested yet?

Congress is just as corrupt as these guys, if Congress did anything the intelligence agencies and contractors would turn on them and vice versa so they work together out of convenience and try to cover their tracks, except of course everybody knows better now and doesn't believe a word any of them say.

[Wilikon]

And what should this link show me?

Jon Stewart "The daily Show" about CNN...

[marcus_of_augustus]

Why hasn't Clapper been charged or arrested yet?

Congress is just as corrupt as these guys, if Congress did anything the intelligence agencies and contractors would turn on them and vice versa so they work together out of convenience and try to cover their tracks, except of course everybody knows better now and doesn't believe a word any of them say.

Sounds like time to send in the Military

[Lethn]

You mean the military that bombs civilians, rapes/assaults its female members, discriminates against homosexuals, loses extremely expensive military hardware and is losing to a bunch of men wearing turbans who are using weapons that still have wood as the crafting material for its stock?

That U.S military?

[marcus_of_augustus]

You mean the military that bombs civilians, rapes/assaults its female members, discriminates against homosexuals, loses extremely expensive military hardware and is losing to a bunch of men wearing turbans who are using weapons that still have wood as the crafting material for its stock?

That U.S military?

Oh, I forgot the NSA is the military ... hmmm, send in the People's militia?