Dangerous games

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I follow this situation with undisguised pleasure: D Bye!

 

[Хагани]

THANK

 

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Re: Controversial revenge of Russia.

If Moscow refuses to shelter Snowden, the United States will most likely become the final destination for the flight of an American citizen from Sheremetyevo Airport.

"You get a donut hole, not Sharapova ..."

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Re: Controversial revenge of Russia.

If Moscow refuses to shelter Snowden, the United States will most likely become the final destination for the flight of an American citizen from Sheremetyevo Airport.

"You get a donut hole, not Sharapova ..."

: lol:: lol:: lol:

 

[Мишина Татьяна]

American journalist Glenn Greenwald:

Alberto Armendaris | La nacion
Glenn Greenwald: Snowden has information to do even more damage

"Snowden has enough information to do more harm to the US government in just one minute than any other person in US history could have done," journalist Glenn Greenwold, author of articles based on documents provided by Snowden, said in an interview with the Argentinean newspaper La Nacion. Correspondent Alberto Armendaris met with Greenwald in Rio da Janeiro.

Greenwald himself is in the "center of the cyclone": US congressmen are demanding that he be brought to justice, and intelligence from several countries will take possession of the information that Snowden provides him, the newspaper notes.

The correspondent asked if Greenwald approves of Snowden’s decision to live in Russia until he can get to Latin America.

"Yes, the main thing is not to be detained in the United States," Greenwald replied. According to him, the US government is trying to avenge "those who read the inconvenient truth," American judges are trying to convict those who are accused of threatening national security. In the USA, Snowden will immediately be imprisoned for the rest of his life, Greenwald believes.

About Russia, Greenwald said: "There are not many countries on the planet that have the ability and desire to disobey the requirements of the United States. But Russia is one of these countries and still treats Snowden well."

Greenwald assured that Snowden, having the opportunity to inflict tremendous damage to the US authorities, does not pursue this goal. "His goal is to tear the cover from computer programs that people all over the world use, not knowing what dangers they are facing, without giving their conscious consent to the assignment of their rights to privacy."

"The US government should pray on God's knees every day so that nothing happens to Snowden," Greenwald said. Snowden handed over his complete archive to several people in different countries. In the event of Snowden's death, the archive will be made public, "and it will be the worst nightmare" for the United States.

Does Snowden have a lot of information related to Latin America? the correspondent asked.

"Yes. For every country that has a modern communication system, and there are such systems from Mexico to Argentina, there are documents detailing how the US collects the flow of information, what programs are used to intercept communications, how many interceptions per day, and much more," Greenwald said.

Source: La Nacion

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thank you Tatiana!
Interesting.

 

[Сергей Анатольевич]

Germans underestimate Russia and overestimate USA

The Germans underestimate Russia and overestimate the United States!

The German politician Volker Manhenke invites Tagesspiegel readers to imagine the following picture: Russia spies on everyone on the Internet, kills people with the help of drones, keeps Guantanamo, wages a war against Iraq, which kills 100,000 people ...
But the United States does all this and even more, the author of the publication recalls. At the same time, continues to Manhank, this country considers itself to be the greatest state, the American authorities believe that they are above human rights, and look down on everyone.

He further recalls that in 1949 the Americans participated in the partition of Germany in order to strengthen there their main stronghold in Europe. In 1952, they rejected the Russian proposal for the reunification of Germany. In addition, they used the Bundeswehr to confront the army of the Soviet Union. The United States, writes Manhenke, "is not friends with anyone, they always do everything in the interests of their financial oligarchy."

But despite everything, the author of the article draws attention, Germany always talks about America as a friend, while statements about Russia are usually negative. The politician is convinced that if Moscow grants asylum to Edward Snowden, she will have to say thank you for this, because the whistleblower tells the world the truth.

In conclusion, the author writes about the Year of Russia in Germany and the Year of Germany in Russia, which lasted from June 2012 to June 2013. About a thousand different events took place in more than 50 cities. “During my trips around the country, I was always impressed by the openness of people towards Germany,” quotes the author of the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Russia, Ulrich Brandenburg.

 

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No matter how it happened, I really want Snowden's data to be publicly available in any way: D: D

 

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Senators urge to end with a "reboot".

Senators urge to end with a "reboot".

John McCain and Lindsay Graham are powerful Republican senators. They doubt the success of the reset policy

A recent poll by the Washington Post and the BBC television company showed that in the first month of his Sheremetyevo sitting, Edward Snowden fell strongly in the opinion of his fellow citizens.

If a month ago, 43% of Americans spoke out in favor of bringing him to court against 48%, but now this proportion looks like 53% against 36%.

Moscow’s refusal to extradite Snowden, who has been brought home for espionage, continues to annoy American politicians, especially those who have previously been critical of the Kremlin, as well as opponents of the current administration.

They already were indignant over Moscow’s reluctance to give up support for the Syrian government, human rights violations in Russia and the ban on Americans adopting Russian orphans. “But even White House allies in Congress are publicly wondering if the Snowden affair means a“ reset ”in relations between Washington and Moscow,” John Hudson writes in Foreign Policy magazine.

"Administration naivete"
"It really demonstrates the naivete of the administration’s notion that we can really make friends with the Russians, although they strive to stab us in the back," Republican Adam Kinzinger, a member of the House’s Foreign Affairs Committee, told Hudson.

He is echoed by another Republican, Tom Marino, who is on the House’s Internal Security Committee. “Russia continues to tread the United States,” notes Marino, “and the Obama administration continues to demonstrate that it has neither the understanding nor the ability to withstand the anti-American creeps of Russia.”

"The naivety of President Obama's conviction that the United States can simply reload diplomatic relations demonstrates that our president will continue to allow Putin to twist the ropes from him," adds Marino.

Democrat Eliot Engel of the Foreign Affairs Committee has no complaints about the democratic administration and makes them only to Russia. "President Putin has made it clear that he will not let Snowden hurt relations with us," says Engel. "Recent events contradict this statement."

Escaping the fugitive
According to the congressman, while sheltering the “fugitive from justice”, Moscow risks even more complicating the already dysfunctional relationship with the United States.

“Providing any shelter for Snowden will hurt US-Russian relations,” warns Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, head of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Representative of the US State Department Jen Saki, who stated last week that "any option that allows Snowden to leave the airport, will definitely be deeply depressing," speaks in the same vein.

Moscow retorts that the Americans should blame themselves because they refuse to sign an extradition treaty with Russia, and that the United States exaggerates the number of Russians sent home.

On Wednesday, Saki noticed this, that in fact their number is measured in "hundreds."

"Continue to click on the reset button!" - Republican Senator John McCain mockingly tweeted.

Graham Amendment

His party comrade Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a resolution imposing sanctions on countries that help Snowden hide from American justice. On Thursday, it was unanimously adopted by the Appropriations Committee, which includes 30 senators.

The resolution is in the form of amendments to the bill on the allocation of $ 50.6 billion to the foreign affairs agency and to foreign economic assistance.

“I don’t know if he got a change of clothes,” Graham said irritably, referring to the words of Moscow lawyer Snowden that he had brought the American to Sheremetyevo clean clothes. “I don’t know whether he will stay in Russia forever. I don’t know where he can still go. But here’s what I know: he needs to be sent back to his homeland, where he is charged with the crimes that he allegedly committed. "

“As for Russia,” Graham told Reuters, “the case is not limited to Snowden. It is entering into an alliance with Iran; 100,000 Syrians have been killed, and it is delivering weapons to Assad, which falls into Hezbollah’s hands.”

Senator Graham’s amendment requires Secretary of State John Kerry to meet with congressional committees and coordinate sanctions against any country that helps Snowden hide from American justice.

In addition to Russia, we are talking about Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, which declared their readiness to accept the fugitive.

It is noted, however, that recently these Latin American countries have lowered the subject of Snowden on the brakes.

It is not yet clear what kind of sanctions can be discussed. But the United States provides many countries, including Bolivia and Venezuela, with trade benefits, the deprivation of which can be expensive.

Washington may also revise a free trade agreement with Nicaragua.

The process of approving a bill to which the sanctions amendment is fastened must go through several more stages.

[DLMURL] https://www.bbc.co.uk/ [/ DLMURL]

 

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The United States will not stop the call tracking program.

The US will not stop the call tracking program.

NSA collects technical data on all phone calls from US phones

The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a bill designed to limit U.S. intelligence agencies' data collection programs.

Against the law, which would narrow the boundaries of the National Security Agency (NSA), 217 lawmakers voted in favor - 205.

The US presidential administration had previously persuaded Congress to reject the amendment. Spokesman for US President Barack Obama Jay Carney said the NSA’s proposed budget cuts would “deprive the intelligence community of one of the counterterrorism tools,” and NSA chief General Keith Alexander persuaded congressmen to vote against the amendment all Tuesday.

Amendment to the law on defense spending was proposed by Republican member Justin Emesh. This amendment could block the funding of the NSA program, in which the agency collects technical data on all phone calls from or to US phones.

Information about this program was made public by Edward Snowden, who worked as a computer technician at the NSA, and then fled from the United States, eventually got stuck in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, but will soon leave it, as he received official documents from Russia allowing him to leave the airport. Snowden is awaiting a political asylum decision from Moscow and several other countries.

The White House argued that congressmen did not think well enough about the consequences of their initiative and did not discuss it properly with colleagues and stakeholders.

Finding a balance between citizen rights and national security is very difficult, explains the head of the NSA, General Alexander.

The issue of "wiretapping financing" split both leading US parties: both Republicans and Democrats appeared on both sides of the barricades.

Stuck in transit
Meanwhile, Edward Snowden himself has not yet been able to leave the Sheremetyev transit zone.

Conflicting reports were received on Snowden's documents on Wednesday. So, according to lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, a certificate allowing the American to leave the airport, where he has been located for more than a month, has not yet been issued.

"The issue has not yet been resolved. Unfortunately, the situation that has developed is not standard for Russia; they encountered a bureaucracy: documents are still being considered ... We will wait a while in the hope that this issue will be resolved in the coming days," - noted the lawyer.

At the same time, the Federal Migration Service of Russia earlier on Wednesday confirmed that it issued Snowden a document allowing it to leave the transit zone in response to his request for political asylum.

Several Latin American countries are also ready to shelter a runaway whistleblower from the NSA. US authorities have accused Snowden of treason and are seeking his extradition.

[DLMURL] https://www.bbc.co.uk/ [/ DLMURL]