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Julian Assange Won’t Say When Wikileaks Began Working With Ed Snowden
Julian Assange Won’t Say When Wikileaks Began Working With Ed Snowden
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange declined to answer when asked if his organization began working with NSA leaker Edward Snowden before he left the United States for Hong Kong and went to the press with his documents detailing U.S. spying programs.
"I instructed the organization to assist Mr. Snowden. I cannot go into further details at this stage," Assange said.
Assange claimed Wikileaks helped Snowden with legal advice on his asylum requests as well as the costs of his travel and attorneys in Hong Kong. Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow Sunday. Assange also declined to discuss Snowden's current location but said Wikileaks is aware of his whereabouts.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/julian-assange-wont-say-when-wikileaks-began-working
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange declined to answer when asked if his organization began working with NSA leaker Edward Snowden before he left the United States for Hong Kong and went to the press with his documents detailing U.S. spying programs.
"I instructed the organization to assist Mr. Snowden. I cannot go into further details at this stage," Assange said.
Assange claimed Wikileaks helped Snowden with legal advice on his asylum requests as well as the costs of his travel and attorneys in Hong Kong. Snowden left Hong Kong for Moscow Sunday. Assange also declined to discuss Snowden's current location but said Wikileaks is aware of his whereabouts.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/julian-assange-wont-say-when-wikileaks-began-working
Snowden Says He Took Job With Contractor To Collect Evidence Of NSA Programs
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said earlier this month that he took a job with government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton for the express purpose of collecting evidence of top secret surveillance programs.
Snowden made the statement in a June 12 interview with South China Morning Post that was published on Monday.
“My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked,” Snowden said. “That is why I accepted that position about three months ago.”
Read the latest portion of the Post's interview with Snowden here.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/snowden-says-he-took-job-with-contractor-to
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said earlier this month that he took a job with government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton for the express purpose of collecting evidence of top secret surveillance programs.
Snowden made the statement in a June 12 interview with South China Morning Post that was published on Monday.
“My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked,” Snowden said. “That is why I accepted that position about three months ago.”
Read the latest portion of the Post's interview with Snowden here.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/snowden-says-he-took-job-with-contractor-to
More here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023082447
Huh. Greenwald said he's been working with Snowden since February. He's been at BAH since March
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022984574
Snowden Helped Guardian Reporter With Secure Communication System
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022986324
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on the cake, but according to the OP they are just a 'news aggregate'
Simeon Tegel
June 24, 2013 12:02
Ecuador has a sinister anniversary gift for Julian Assange
A year ago, Ecuador allowed fugitive WikiLeaker Julian Assange to seek refuge in its London embassy. Now its new media law tightens the vice on journalists critical of the South American country’s government.
LIMA, Peru — As Julian Assange today completes a full year living in Ecuador’s London embassy, back in Quito, President Rafael Correa has found an original way to celebrate — hammering yet another nail into the coffin of his country’s free press.
Last Friday, Ecuador’s congress, dominated by Correa’s leftist Proud and Sovereign Fatherland grouping, passed a new media law that's been universally condemned by human rights and journalism groups.
Vaguely written and granting the government sweeping powers to regulate the media, the law is even reported to further criminalize precisely the kind of leaking of official information that fugitive WikiLeaks founder Assange champions.
I've been listening to NPR commentary all morning, and even people who initially supported Snowden, are finding it increasingly difficult to justify his behavior since he fled. China? Russia? Cuba? Venezuela? And now Ecuador? None of these countries is big on "freedom of the press", so what is all this for?
advice from assange. the guy who can't leave the Ecuadorian embassy? It's like getting one of the Enron guy's to do my taxes.
