A decade after Snowden exposed NSA’s mass surveillance in cooperation with the British GCHQ, only about 1 percent of the documents have been published, but three major facts can finally be revealed thanks to a doctoral thesis in applied cryptography by Jacob Appelbaum.

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          1 year ago

          So what? Once it went to a few news organizations, the Russians probably already had it by the time he arrived.

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            But then they couldn’t ask him questions about it before he arrived…but maybe they did and his sell out happened way up the line. In any case, if you think what Trump did was wrong this was the same crime.

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                  He did actually try to go through those channels, unsuccessfully, so he was left with no other choice.

                  That’s a far cry from storming the capitol after losing the election to build an even further right state.

                  What matters to me is the morality of a rule (unreasonable searches, accepting loss), not the fact that a rule was broken.

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      @Rapidcreek

      I would bet the Russians know 100%

      Their surveillance people do, sure - just like all the 5-Eyes governments obviously know 100% and so do any spooks from anywhere else with competent spy networks, including the Chinese, Israelis, etc etc.

      That’s not really my point though. It’s ordinary people that need to know about it.

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      Snowden asserted and still does that he deleted his own copies once Greenwald et al. got their copies, well before he had to flee Hong Kong and ended up trapped in Russia.

      Remember, it was the US who trapped him in Russia by revoking his passport – an international crime in and of itself, rendering him stateless which no country should do to its citizens, no matter what crimes they have allegedly commited – and he had no intention of ending up there; he was trying to get to Chile I believe, and the EU did the unprecedented step of force-grounding their equivalent of Air Force One, with their president on board, thinking Snowden was a passenger.

      Imagine if the POTUS had his plane accompanied by fighter jets to force-land in any other nation. The response would have been explosive, literally. Such hypocrisy that they just wave off other nations’ sovereignty and diplomatic norms on the treatment of foreign leaders so easily.