Posted on 05/16/2015 5:25:58 PM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll
Even though Edward Snowden is in exile in Moscow, he's still hard at work — although he won't reveal what exactly he is working on quite yet because he believes in being judged on the results.
Whatever he's working on, the former NSA contractor who exposed controversial US surveillance practices, says it's much tougher than his last gig.
"The fact is I was getting paid an extraordinary amount of money for very little work with very little in the way of qualifications. That's changed significantly," Snowden said in an event at Stanford University on Friday, via teleconference from Moscow. "I have to work a lot harder to do the same thing. The difference is that, even though I've lost a lot, I have a tremendous sense of satisfaction."
Snowden talked about the ethics of whistle-blowing and what his life is like in Russia now.
Just last week, a federal appeals court ruled that the NSA's massive collection of Americans' phone records is illegal — a victory for Snowden, who revealed the existence of the surveillance program in the documents he leaked to the press. Some of the other documents that Snowden leaked, relating to US hacking of China, have sparked criticism that he crossed the line from whistleblowing to treason.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Dear Mr, Snowden,
I have a friend in Washington who’s missing a fair number of email messages which were evidently accidently erased from her hard drive.
I’d like to discuss the possibility of recovering as many of those messages as possible, as soon as possible.
SIncerely,
M.M.
I wish he would release Hillary’s emails.
But for who? Our enemies?
Never confuse motion with action.....
Probably.
It’s getting hard to tell the difference between enemies and friends these days.
President Obama is President of the United States, but is he a friend of the USA? Honestly, I think he thinks the USA is the source of many problems in the world and wants to see us diminished. I’d call that an enemy. He’s certainly claimed he wants to fundamentally transform the USA many times, and that hardly sounds like something a “friend” would say.
Jebbie Bush is supposedly a friend of the USA, but he’s apparently for fundamentally transforming the country in a different way. I think Jebbie wants to remove our borders. Is that something a friend of the USA would do?
They are already saved on CLOUD by the hacker Guccifer
Many projects he could be working on thanks to both the Obama and HILLbilly
Welcome to the real world. Most people in the private sector work harder than the overpaid union-thug bureaucRATs.
well Thats timely I must say.
this thread is very timely...as is this article...
Nah, Snowden doesn't work for the NSA any more...
Should Snowden, as a whistleblower, be permitted to return to the USA with immunity from prosecution?
He should receive a pardon from President Cruz, and get the honor of physically taking an axe to the data cable feeding into NSA headquarters, in my opinion.
Great idea anyway - he may come thru as that would be easy picking - cept for me.
GMTA and post about one minute apart...
We have got to do what we can.
He was paid “an extraordinary amount of money” to keep his mouth shut. Apparently it wasn’t enough. hee hee
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