One have to agree
that whatever USA
accomplish always does it in style and so I am not surprised when they did it
again. In the name of security and cyber scrutiny they caught spying on other
counties. US, the mother of all trouble is back in the business or
rather caught red handed while doing old business. However, snooping and
sniffing remind me to a four legged animal but never imagine any human
being at that position, specially not from a thirsted one. After Wikileaks this
time around they are facing the challenge within, as whole thing blown up by a
very own insider, who is himself an employee of the NSA. While on medical leave
in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, leaks the details how USA spying on other countries within USA that included Indian embassy in USA. I
wonder, is USA
suffering from inferior complexity?
Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph
Snowden is a US former technical contractor for
the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
employee who leaked details of top-secret US and British government mass
surveillance programs to the press.
Snowden grew up in Wilmington, North
Carolina. In 1999, Snowden had moved with his family
to Ellicott City, Maryland, where he studied computing at Anne
Arundel Community College to gain the credits necessary to obtain a high-school
diploma, but he did not complete the coursework. Snowden
worked at a US
military base in Japan
and reportedly had a deep interest in Japanese popular culture and had studied
the Japanese language. He also said he had a basic understanding of Mandarin
and was deeply interested in martial arts, and he listed Buddhism as his
religion.
In May 2013, Snowden
was permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext
of receiving treatment for his epilepsy. On May 20, Snowden flew to the Chinese
territory of Hong Kong. He was staying in a Hong Kong hotel when the initial articles revealing
information about the NSA that he had leaked were published. Among other
specifics divulged,
Snowden revealed the existence and functions of
several classified US surveillance programs and their scope.
Snowden explained
his actions saying: "I don't want to live in a society that does these
sort of things [surveillance on its citizens]. I do not want to live in a world
where everything I do and say is recorded."
The 29-year-old
source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history
explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding
in the shadows
Making a fortune
off of snooping
Corporate execs at
firms like Booz Allen and Carlyle make fortunes doing "systematic
snooping" for the government. These execs have a vested self-interest in
pumping up demand for their snooping services - and they're indeed, the Washington
Post reported, pumping away.
This past April, the
Post notes, Booz Allen established a new 1,500-employee division "aimed
at creating new products that clients don't know they need yet." This new
division is developing "social media analytics" that can anticipate
the latest "cyber threat."
In other words, this
new unit will be figuring out how to get the federal government to pay up even
more for investigating whom we "like" on Facebook.
Manhunt
An international
manhunt has been under way after Mr. Snowden fled the U.S., initially to
Hong Kong, and then on to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where he has
been stuck in legal limbo in the international transit area.
After China, Russia
also rejected a asylum plea from Snowden and now he holed up in the transit
area in Moscow as Dmitry Peskov, Putin's
spokesman, told Reuters that Snowden was in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo
airport and had not crossed through passport control into Russian territory.
Snowden asylum plea
outright rejected by Brazil,
Finland, India, Poland when still pending with
following countries :
Austria, Ecuador,
Norway, Spain, Venezuela,
Bolivia, China, Cuba,
France, Germany, Iceland,
Italy, Ireland, Netherlands,
Nicaragua, Switzerland and Russia.
It is like enjoying
a prime time movie with a pack of popcorn, I am luving it!
!!!A lie gets halfway around the world
before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill!!!
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