What’s interesting is, though that was the initial response, since then, we’ve seen a softening. Instead of circling around the public and protecting their rights, the political class circled around the security state and protected their rights. government officials have changed.ĮDWARD SNOWDEN: What we saw initially in response to the revelations was sort of a circling of the wagons of government around the National Security Agency. In his first television interview with German channel ARD late last month, Snowden talked about how perceptions of the leaks among U.S. Snowden now lives in Russia and faces espionage charges if he returns to the United States. Partly as a consequence of the government’s response to Snowden’s leaks, the United States plunged 13 spots in an annual survey of press freedom by the independent organization, Reporters Without Borders.
He may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done his country a great service,” the Times wrote. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. The editors of The New York Times recently urged clemency for Snowden, writing, quote, “Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Meanwhile, Snowden has repeatedly maintained he’s no longer in possession of any of the documents he took from the NSA-ĪMY GOODMAN: -having passed them on to journalists to report at their discretion. What Snowden has stolen and exposed has gone way, way beyond his professed concerns with so-called domestic surveillance programs. As a consequence, the nation is less safe, and its people less secure. But what I do want to speak to, as the nation’s senior intelligence officer, is the profound damage that his disclosures have caused and continue to cause. 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 U.S. JAMES CLAPPER: Snowden claims that he’s won and that his mission is accomplished. Clapper also suggested the journalists who have published Snowden’s leaks are his accomplices. In January, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper attacked Snowden while speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and called for him to return all stolen documents to the NSA after causing what he called major harm to U.S. military and CIA assassinations overseas by using metadata analysis and cellphone-tracking technologies-the unreliable tactic that has resulted in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people.ĪMY GOODMAN: Well, the NSA has defended its activities as essential in the fight against terrorism. They show how the NSA has secretly assisted in U.S. The latest revelations based on the leaks were reported by journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald with First Look Media.
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Snowden’s leaks to The Guardian and other media outlets have generated a series of exposés on NSA surveillance activities, from its collection of Americans’ phone records, text messages and email, to its monitoring of the internal communications of individual heads of state. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Today, we host a debate on former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and his disclosure of the massive spying apparatus the NSA operates in the United States and across the globe.
involvement in Vietnam, prompting Henry Kissinger to call him “the most dangerous man in America.” Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, exposing the secret history of the U.S.
Baker, a former NSA general counsel and assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, is a partner at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson and author of “Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism.” Ellsberg is a former Pentagon and RAND Corporation analyst and perhaps the country’s most famous whistleblower. Snowden now lives in Russia and faces possible espionage charges if he returns to the United States. Snowden’s leaks to The Guardian and other media outlets have generated a series of exposés on NSA surveillance activities - from its collection of American’s phone records, text messages and email, to its monitoring of the internal communications of individual heads of state. Former National Security Agency lawyer Stewart Baker and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg join us for a debate on Edward Snowden’s disclosure of the NSA’s massive spying apparatus in the United States and across the globe.
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