Snowden revelations stir up anti-US sentiment

[Galraedia]

Holed up in Moscow airport for the past three weeks, Edward Snowden has only had a limited impact on the political debate about surveillance in the U.S. that he wanted to ignite.

Yet the self-confessed National Security Agency leaker has managed to orchestrate a very different political phenomenon: the biggest bout of anti-Americanism since the Iraq war.

When he first revealed his identity a month ago while in Hong Kong, Mr Snowden used selective disclosures about US global surveillance to rally public opinion in China and Russia. Since then, he has managed to create uproar in Europe with information about the bugging of EU offices and over the past week he has created a new international stir in Latin America.

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100883484

[burnodo]

1. Snowden orchestrated?

So the US is...totally innocent?

[Mojorabbit]

2. I know right! nt

[cantbeserious]

3. The US Created The Surveillance State - Not Snowden

eom

[PSPS]

4. LOL. Yes! That's it! They hate us for our Snowden!

[frylock]

10. !

[allin99]

5. that's cnbc/msnbc for you.

[WatermelonRat]

6. Well what did you think was the point of the circus they've been putting on?

As Snowden and James O'keefe know, bland facts never get the proper results, so you need to spice things up with constant insinuations and selective use of facts. Let people's imagination do the work for them.

[L0oniX]

7. Snowden loves bunnies. n/t

[noamnety]

8. Don't you just hate that?

You know that feeling you get, when you've been fucking people over left and right for years, and then some asshole tells people about it?

It's like their whole goal is to turn everyone against you. Fuckers.

[Laelth]

14. +1 n/t

-Laelth

[Cha]

11. Yeah, stirring up anti-USA while pimping for Putin..

Can Edward Snowden cite human rights and still applaud Putin?

Perhaps it was no more than being naive, but to list Putin's Russia, as Snowden did, among his little list of countries for "being the first to stand against human rights violations" suggests a dangerous moral relativism.

Far from being a champion, Russia's record on human rights violations is a grim one. Snowden's meeting with human rights groups in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport was preceded by another piece of human rights news – the posthumous conviction of whisteblower Sergei Magnitsky, who was tortured in a Russian prison and denied medical attention that might have saved his life.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/13/edward-snowden-anna-politkovskaya

Fucking hypocrital pimp

[burnodo]

12. where does he applaud Putin?

I guess I missed that.

[Cha]

13. Yeah, you must have missed that..

"Judging from his first public statement on Friday after three weeks of silence, in which he self-approvingly described his "moral decision to tell the public about spying that affects all of us," Snowden now sees himself as the world's foremost champion of free speech. Which makes it all the more odd, of course, that Snowden has placed his fate in the hands of perhaps the most repressive major leader of our time, Vladimir Putin, whose government has apparently offered him asylum. The National Security Agency leaker went out of his way to praise Moscow for its integrity and honor.

"By refusing to compromise their principles in the face of intimidation, they have earned the respect of the world" as well as his own for "being the first to stand against human rights violations," Snowden said of Russia and other nations that have "offered support and asylum" to him, including Venezuela.

It certainly added up to a good day for Putin, the former KGB colonel who made his bones cracking down on dissidents in the old Soviet Union and whose government, in an unprecedented act that might have impressed even Josef Stalin, had only the day before posthumously convicted Sergei Magnitsky, one of the most significant dissidents of our time."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/how-the-snowden-affair-became-a-freak-show-20130712

[burnodo]

15. seems like a little creative attribution there

but given Russian laws about arresting gays, SNowden is certainly totally wrong