Swiss Lawmakers Want to Meet Snowden in Russia

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Ria Novosti

MOSCOW, November 2 (RIA Novosti) – A group of Swiss lawmakers are planning to travel to Moscow to ask fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden about his undercover work in Geneva, a media report said on Saturday.

Swiss parliamentarian with the Socialist Party, Carlo Sommaruga, said in an interview with the local RTS television that together with a group of colleagues from other parties, they are planning to visit Russia to get first-hand details about what the US intelligence serivces were doing in the country when Snowden worked under a diplomatic cover in Switzerland in 2007. The lawmaker expressed a concern that the American agency might be still doing intelligence work in the country.

Snowden was hired by the CIA in 2006 for a technology job and later worked under the cover of the US State Department in Geneva.

The former National Security Agency contractor told the Guardian newspaper in June that much of what he saw in Geneva “really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world.”

Read more: http://en.ria.ru/world/20131102/184492072/Swiss-Lawmakers-Want-to-Meet-Snowden-in-Russia.html

[SoapBox]

1. "...worked under the cover of the US State department IN Geneva."

Really? Did we know this?

My, my...Comrade Eddie, former American, is so busy.

[last1standing]

4. The blind hatred in your post is telling.

I find it very interesting that you get so upset over Snowden exposing the crimes of a rogue governmental agency.

[newfie11]

9. +1

[boomersense]

12. +1.....................nft

dddd

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Yes, we knew it

At the time of the alleged incident, Snowden said he was working undercover for the CIA in Geneva maintaining computer network security. The CIA has declined to comment on Snowden’s case, but the Swiss foreign ministry confirmed that he publicly held the position of “an attaché” with the permanent U.S. mission to the United Nations in Geneva from March 2007 to February 2009. A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this report.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/switzerland-questions-u-s-over-cia-drunk-driving-gambit/

And, reported more recently:

C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in ’09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks

Source: NYT

WASHINGTON — Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva and a job as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, his supervisor wrote a derogatory report in his personnel file, noting a distinct change in the young man’s behavior and work habits, as well as a troubling suspicion.

The C.I.A. suspected that Mr. Snowden was trying to break into classified computer files he was not authorized to access, and decided to send him home, according to two senior American officials.

But the red flags went unheeded. Mr. Snowden left the C.I.A. to become a contractor for the National Security Agency, and four years later he leaked thousands of classified documents. The supervisor’s cautionary note and the C.I.A.’s suspicions were never forwarded to the N.S.A. or its contractors, and surfaced only after federal investigators began combing through Mr. Snowden’s record once the documents began spilling out, intelligence and law enforcement officials said.

“It slipped through the cracks,” one veteran law enforcement official said of the report.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/us/cia-warning-on-snowden-in-09-said-to-slip-through-the-cracks.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014617018

[Demeter]

2. Dylan said it first

[boomersense]

3. Perfect....................nft

ddddddd

[cosmicone]

6. Switzerland may give him asylum

because the IRS pissed off the Swiss bankers and destroyed the centuries old banking secrecy practices.

[reACTIONary]

7. The reason that the Swiss

...gave up on their centuries old banking secrecy practices is because their banks do so much business in America and with Americans. That gives us leverage. Same deal with Snowdon... we've got the leverage to prevent it.

[Demeter]

10. I rather think the balance of power is now on Snowden's side.

stay tuned---the next revelation is a doozy, according to Greenwald.

[BillyRibs]

8. The tools of the

"Great Banking family's" now have something to fear. They fear for their masters. House slaves.

[bemildred]

11. Well, this can't be good.