Chinese Paper: Snowden Could Be Useful to China

[Galraedia]

Source: ABC News

A popular Communist Party-backed newspaper urged China's leadership to milk a former U.S. contractor for more information rather than send him home, saying his revelations about secret American surveillance programs concern China's national interest.

Friday's Global Times editorial follows Snowden's allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency hacked 61,000 targets, including hundreds in Hong Kong and mainland China, in an interview published in the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post.

Snowden revealed last weekend he was the source of a major leak of top-secret information on NSA surveillance, saying he was uncovering wrongdoing. He spoke to reporters from an undisclosed location in the semiautonomous Chinese territory of Hong Kong, a choice that raised questions about whether and how Washington would seek his return for possible prosecution.

The Global Times said in the editorial, which ran in the paper's Chinese- and English-language editions, that Snowden could offer intelligence that would help China update its understanding of cyberspace and improve its position in negotiations with Washington.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-newspaper-snowden-china-19399039#.UbvGJL1N9vE

[pnwmom]

1. And Snowden is well aware of that. That's why he stole thousands of documents.

It's funny, though, that he was bragging that he was better than Manning because he only released a handful online. Apparently he thinks it's better just to hand them over to the Chinese and avoid the online middle-man.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. WOW, What A Fucking HERO !!!!!

How Patriotic of him.

[BenzoDia]

3. Taken with a grain of salt.

[okaawhatever]

4. So what part of this is patriotic and heroic? nt

[Major Hogwash]

5. Well, we knew this was coming.

Like a freight train, this news is right on time

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. I listen to NPR, and folks who were initially celebrating Snowden are now beginning to.....

question his true motives. The China thing will blow up on both him & Greenwald, because the story has now become shades of treason as opposed to whistleblowing. This won't end well for "Hong Kong Eddie" (thanks randome).

[cloudythescribbler]

7. HOLD IT! Snowden has never said ANYTHING about defecting to China ...

This line of reasoning, promoted in the mainstream media broadcasts at the link given, tells us what US pundits and at least some Chinese pundits are saying. Until and unless Snowden comes forward and gives info to China that he does not make public -- most of the above comments are premature. And having listened to the full tape, the excerpt shown in the news broadcast of Snowden talking about China is very misleadingly taken out of context

I don't pretend, as one shrink does on this broadcast, to psychoanalyze Snowden. If he chooses a path other than the public, and to essentially defect, which I have no way of knowing he WON'T do, THEN the above attacks on him would then be on point. But at this point, I agree with Ellsberg about this, and in general more with Ellsberg's long-held and Snowden's at least express point of view -- these policies of the NSA and its contractors are things that the public needs to know, and really conflict fundamentally with any meaningful idea of democracy. All the claims of oversight are at this point, still utterly spurious, and probably will remain so, even if pretenses are made to the contrary.

Check out the following:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?%2Fvideo%2Fbestoftv%2F2013%2F06%2F10%2Fexp-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-on-nsa.cnn#/video/bestoftv/2013/06/10/exp-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-on-nsa.cnn

I think there are a lot of media out to trash Snowden, Manning etc, and to mislead the public into thinking they aren't true whistleblowers as a presumption, rather than carefully evaluating the issues and facts

[cloudythescribbler]

9. for those who haven't seen it -- here's Snowden's original interview w/G Greenwald

He states is case quite well -- sure he could be lying, and end up as a defector, but that's not what this sounds like:

http://www.cnn.com/video/?%2Fvideo%2Fbestoftv%2F2013%2F06%2F10%2Fexp-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-on-nsa.cnn#/video/bestoftv/2013/06/10/exp-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-on-nsa.cnn

[Grassy Knoll]

8. The Knee Jerk Reaction Was Hero Hero Hero.....

After time, What an asshole! If it makes the president look bad, it
becomes a dog pile, Facts are killing the Ron Paul Baggers who have
invaded DU. AWESOME

[cynzke]

10. If I Were The Chinese....

I'd be thinking the US is going after this kid any which way they can. Grab him now in Hong Kong. If for no other reason, it should worry the US greatly as to what intelligence Snowden is leaking.