America's PR disaster over Snowden

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They seek him here, they seek him there. Snowden the young whistleblower is making a fool of Obama.

Long before the digital age, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson remarked ruefully that a week is a long time in politics.

The fortnight since his summit with Xi Jinping must seem like a century for Barack Obama. Then he planned to deliver a lecture on Chinese hacking and freebooting of commercial secrets. Now his government stands accused of organizing the most comprehensive eavesdropping program in history. U.S. agents are frantically hunting whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is turning into a modern Scarlet Pimpernel. Rarely do we see the tables turn so rapidly.

American commentators dismiss Snowden as an attention-seeking naïf; members of Congress denounce him as a traitor. In private, officials are calling for him to suffer all sorts of unpleasant consequences. He has been charged with espionage - no doubt to intimidate other potential whistleblowers.

http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2013-06/26/content_29235916.htm

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1. "Snowden is like the little boy in the story who said out loud what everybody knew already

but was too polite to point out."

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2. It's unraveling - the USA's "covert" stuff.

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Injecting their military into most of the countries around the world, their black ops, renditions, invasions etc.,

The World is getting pissed off.

We are in what is known as the "Information Age" -

There are no secrets anymore from those determined to get them -

WORLD - is getting determined.

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