Edward Snowden’s removal of thousands, perhaps millions, of highly classified documents from the National Security Agency and his decision to turn them over to journalists for publication ignited a fierce debate about who and what he is. On one side are those who hail Snowden as a whistleblower, someone who, as the New York Times editorialized, “has done his country a great service.” Others regard him as a criminal or traitor. Neither this debate nor the public discussion of government secrecy and surveillance policies that Snowden’s actions sparked will be resolved anytime soon.
Snowden, meanwhile, says that his “mission’s already accomplished,” that he has given Americans a “say in how they are governed” and that he has succeeded in exposing the workings of what he has called the unbridled “surveillance state.”… Seguir leyendo »
That was the term that President Obama and his then-Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, used four years ago when they spoke of a new era in U.S.-Russian relations. The goal: to “cooperate more effectively in areas of common interest.” Both leaders were “committed to leaving behind the suspicion and the rivalry of the past.”
Two years later, Vladimir Putin, then serving as prime minister, was calling the United States a “parasite” on the global economy, and the U.S. State Department was putting 64 Russian officials on a visa blacklist.
Now we have Moscow granting asylum for one year to Edward Snowden, the infamous leaker of classified information about government surveillance programs, and the Obama administration talking about canceling next month’s Putin-Obama summit — a post-Cold War era first, if it happens.… Seguir leyendo »
After five and a half weeks in transit limbo, NSA leaker Edward Snowden was granted temporary one-year asylum in Russia on Thursday.
The White House expressed "disappointment" and again raised the threat of possibly canceling the meeting between President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin next month when the U.S. president is scheduled to travel to Russia for the G-20 meeting in St. Petersburg.
But just how disappointed should Washington be with this development?
With Snowden being allowed to leave the transit area, the move can provide an opportunity for U.S. authorities to make contact with him somewhere in Moscow. It is my understanding that while Snowden has been in the transit area, it has not been possible for U.S.… Seguir leyendo »
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