It would appear an order of shellfish was delivered by room service...
Edward Snowden gone from Hong Kong hotel, whereabouts unknown
Edward Snowden gone from Hong Kong hotel, whereabouts unknown
The U.S. so far hasn’t issued a request for Mr. Snowden’s extradition. The Justice Department on Sunday said it had started a criminal investigation into the case.
“Hong Kong is the worst place in the world for any person to avoid extradition, with the possible exception of the United Kingdom,” said one lawyer who’s worked on a dozen extradition cases both in the U.K. and Hong Kong, citing a number of murder and drug smuggling cases in which Hong Kong authorities have helped render suspects back to the U.S. While an exception for political cases exists, lawyers said Monday they weren’t aware of any specific instances in which it had been tested.
The real question is whether there is enough manpower to even analyze most of what they have gathered. Obama is gutting the Intelligence agencies. Over a million intelligence analysts have been let go. DIA has lost 80% of their manpower. CIA has lost about 30% and NSA about 40%.
Remember that Bill Clinton cut the civil service in half, from 3 million to 1.5 million. Most civil servants only manage. Most of the work is done by contractors. Until Obama started cutting, there were 8.5 million contractors. The excuse is the Sequestor. However Sequestor only requires less than 10% cuts, not 40 to 80%!
HUMINT Operations on the Brink of Extinction Due to Sequester | SOFREP
So, and this is outside the argument of whether the government should have been doing this at all, they do not have the manpower to do what they claim they are doing. Which makes me wonder if this is some form of trick.
If you can effectively use technology to do the job that hundreds of thousands of people used to do, then of course it makes sense to fire hundreds of thousands of superfluous staff.
The only thing that has largely spared us from an Orwellian bureaucracy is the inefficiency of that bureaucracy, and now they're making it more efficient.
The brave men are finally stepping forward. I just wish they would have done it before the election so that we could have true change. This one man may go down in history as the one who changed everything and brought the constitution back. He said s not an whole like Bradley Manning either from the sound of things.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
Knowing a bit about the NSA's procedures, the whole thing doesn't worry me in the least. The thing which does bother me is the fact that they have had to resort to hiring "contractors" like this slug to do their leg work. There was a time when such field work was the realm of the Army Security Agency, the Naval Security Group and the Air Force Security Service. Sadly enough, they were all effectively done away with in the mid-70s.
Knowing a bit about the NSA's procedures, the whole thing doesn't worry me in the least. The thing which does bother me is the fact that they have had to resort to hiring "contractors" like this slug to do their leg work. There was a time when such field work was the realm of the Army Security Agency, the Naval Security Group and the Air Force Security Service. Sadly enough, they were all effectively done away with in the mid-70s.
why all the bedwetting over this now, I am not sure. I oppose government violations of the bill of rights but i really dont understand why this is considered really new news
So you would argue to keep Obama in office? Or what is your solution to this?
Somehow I don't think anyone in the US was doing this kind of "field work" in the 70s. If so, what were US Armed Forces doing spying on American citizens anyway?
Knowing a bit about the NSA's procedures, the whole thing doesn't worry me in the least. The thing which does bother me is the fact that they have had to resort to hiring "contractors" like this slug to do their leg work. There was a time when such field work was the realm of the Army Security Agency, the Naval Security Group and the Air Force Security Service. Sadly enough, they were all effectively done away with in the mid-70s.