Snowden Responds To Donald Trump’s Death Threats, Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal
http://www.mintpressnews.com/snowden-responds-to-donald-trumps-death-threats-hillary-clintons-email-scandal/209258/In a Friday interview with Al-Jazeera, exiled NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden responded to two of his critics: presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Mehdi Hasan, the host of Al-Jazeeras Upfront, played audio of Trump talking about Snowden to the whistleblower: This guys a bad guy. There is still a thing called execution. Hasan asked Snowden, who joined the show from Russia via video chat, Are you worried about what a president trump might do to you?
The whistleblower laughed as he responded. No, Im not. He added: Its very difficult to respond in a serious way to any statement made by Donald Trump. Snowden added that Trumps popularity in the race reflects a lack of credibility in American politics. The arguments about whether Im a good guy or a bad guy are a red herring, he said, explaining that they distract Americans from discussing the actual contents of his leaks.
Hasan also asked Snowden to reflect on another of his major critics, Hillary Clinton. In a February interview with Re/Code, an independent tech news organization, Clinton told reporter Kara Swisher that she disapproved of Snowdens actions even though she agreed they had started a necessary conversation about the NSAs actions. She told Swisher:
In other appearances, Clinton has insisted that Snowden should have gone through internal government channels rather than leaking information to the press, and implied that he might have provided his information to China or Russia, either deliberately or by accident. Snowden has maintained that he tried those proper channels and only approached the press after the government failed to respond to his complaints on the mass surveillance of Americans.
Now Clinton herself is accused of having classified material on a private email server she maintained in her home. Snowden responded to the scandal on UpFront by comparing the way the government is treating Clinton to how an average government employee might fare in a similar situation:
Snowden also suggested that since official U.S. government servers, protected by a full-time security staff, get hacked on a regular basis, its very likely that Clinton left classified material dangerously exposed on her server.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)I'm guessing she is sorry she ever uttered those words about Snowden.
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)I would think the NSA has all of Hillary's emails and are reviewing them.
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)Maybe as a libertarian he didn't want to ally himself with a Democratic socialist.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)The program(s) are still in place and being abused, and defended by people in power and by their lackeys.
It's going to take more than an election to remove the Shadow Government.
pnwmom
(108,976 posts)files were safe to expose.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)If you really want to pursue this line of inquiry, our good friend DiFi and the Intel committee would have been the obvious avenue. I seem to recall Wyden was pretty upset, but still, lots of info that ends up there does not come out to us little people.
That would be sort of the point though, isn't it? Had the info gone through established channels, it would have disappeared, and so would Snowden. Total win there, right?