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Default re: PhOtOs-Snowden Granted Asylum/Offered Job in Russia+NSA Updates

conclusion....

Last year Miss Harrison was forced to pay £3,500 to the courts after she had put up £5,000 as one of the people who provided sureties for Mr Assange’s bail conditions.

A WikiLeaks statement said yesterday:

‘Miss Harrison has courageously assisted Mr Snowden with his lawful departure from Hong Kong and is accompanying Mr Snowden on his passage to safety.’

Snowden has been charged with espionage after exposing Prism – a covert project run by US intelligence that snoops on Facebook accounts, emails and phone calls.
He has also detailed a massive electronic eavesdropping operation by Britain’s GCHQ called Operation Tempora. Snowden described it as
‘the largest programme of suspicionless surveillance in human history’.


The US had made a formal request to the Hong Kong government for a provisional arrest warrant to stop him leaving the territory.
But relations cooled after Snowden claimed the US had hacked into Chinese mobile phone companies to access millions of text messages. Beijing said it was ‘gravely concerned’ about the allegations.

In a statement yesterday, the Hong Kong government said Snowden boarded a plane at Chep Lap Kok airport ‘on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel’.
It said documentation provided by America for the arrest warrant did not ‘fully comply’ with Hong Kong law.
Clearly irritated, the Hong Kong government also demanded ‘clarification’ on hacking saying it would ‘follow up on the matter’ to protect the legal rights of its citizens.

In the US, security chiefs were bewildered at how Snowden had been allowed to leave the Chinese- run territory because his passport had been revoked on Saturday.Keith Alexander, head of the US National Security Agency said:

‘This is an individual who is not acting, in my opinion, with noble intent.
‘What Snowden has revealed has caused irreversible and significant damage to our country and to our allies.’


Democratic senator Charles Schumer believes Russian President Vladimir Putin approved Snowden’s flight to Moscow.

He said:
‘Putin always seems almost eager to stick a finger in the eye of the United States – whether it is Syria, Iran and now of course with Snowden.’

He also suggested China may have had a role to play in Snowden’s departure from Hong Kong.
He added:
‘It remains to be seen how much influence Beijing had on Hong Kong.


Meanwhile, Downing Street this morning declined to comment on whether a plane carrying Mr Snowden would be allowed through UK airspace and said that the question of whether he has breached any laws was a matter for the US legal system.
David Cameron's official spokesman said the Prime Minister believes that GCHQ is operating within 'a clear and robust framework'.

'GCHQ absolutely operates within the law,' said the spokesman. 'It is very important that it has operated and continues to operate within the law.'




Spokeswoman: Miss Harrison became close to Assange when she started working at WikiLeaks and is believed to have acted as his assistant





Sympathetic: Ecuador Ambassador to Russia Patrizio Alberto Chavez Savala, pictured left with Vladimir Putin, was waiting for Snowden in Moscow


The spokesman said that the questions surrounding proposed legislation on communications data - branded a 'snooper's charter' by critics - remained unchanged since the Queen's Speech last month.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg prevented the inclusion in the Speech of a bill to require internet companies to keep records of email and social media contacts and allow security services access to the data, but Home Secretary Theresa May has been pressing for the legislation to be revived in the wake of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich.

Mr Cameron's spokesman said:

'It is very important that we enable the police and other agencies to stay up to date with technological developments.
'The Government is considering how best that is done and it will set out its position in due course.'



NBC'S DAVID GREGORY ASKS GUARDIAN JOURNALIST GLENN GREENWALD WHY HE SHOULDN'T BE CHARGED FOR HELPING SNOWDEN

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NBC 'Meet the Press' host David Gregory got a rise out of Glenn Greenwald on Sunday by asking the Guardian reporter
why he shouldn't be charged with a crime for having 'aided and abetted' former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden.

Greenwald replied on the show Sunday that it was
'pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felonies.'


Tense: NBC host David Gregory and journalist Glenn Greenwald had a tense moment when Gregory suggested Greenwald should be charged with a crime for 'aiding' NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden


Greenwald first reported Snowden's disclosure of U.S. government surveillance programs. On Sunday, Ecuador's foreign minister and the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said that Snowden was headed to Ecuador to seek asylum.

During his interview with NBC's Gregory, Greenwald declined to discuss where Snowden was headed. That refusal seemed to prompt Gregory to ask:
'To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?'


Greenwald said Gregory was embracing the Obama administration's attempt to 'criminalize investigative journalism,' citing an FBI agent's characterization of Fox News journalist James Rosen as a probable co-conspirator of a State Department contractor who was suspected of leaking classified information to Rosen. Rosen was not charged.

'If you want to embrace that theory, it means that every investigative journalist in the United States who works with their sources, who receives classified information is a criminal, and it's precisely those theories and precisely that climate that has become so menacing in the United States,'

said Greenwald, a former constitutional and civil rights lawyer who has written three books contending that the government has violated personal rights in the name of protecting national security.

Gregory responded that "the question of who is a journalist may be up to a debate with regard to what you are doing." Gregory also said he was merely asking a question.

'That question has been raised by lawmakers as well,' Gregory said. 'I'm not embracing anything, but, obviously, I take your point.'


Later, Greenwald tweeted,

Quote:

"Who needs the government to try to criminalize journalism when you have David Gregory to do it?" and, 'Has David Gregory ever publicly wondered if powerful DC officials should be prosecuted for things like illegal spying & lying to Congress?'
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