As has been the problem in Egypt in the past few months.

You do what we do? You are evil - we are good!

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...dition-snowden

Back to the good old times :rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6-2b_3Dmxw

Well as always in politics...the pendulum swings both ways.

The confusing thing is that sometimes it swings both ways at the same time! :doh:

Putin on the brakes.

Way to go Eddie boy!:up:

The Russian perspective from my wife is one of apathy and no surprise. While part of it is the two fingers up to America that Russians seem to enjoy it is also one of not being surprised at the Snowden revelations. Maybe it is from seven decades of living in a surveillance society but they don't trust their government and it doesn't trust them. They know governments want to know what their citizens are doing. To be honest I think Obama shouldn't of made such a big fuss of getting him back as the spotlight has stayed on him and the US government. Time will tell. Though my wife's first suspicion was that the whole thing was a double bluff on the part of the CIA

“We don’t have a domestic spying program,” Obama told Leno during a Tuesday night interview. "What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat."

Distraction and desinformation with the president's voice!

Obama’s former adviser Van Jones ridicules statement that NSA doesn’t spy on Americans.

Van Jones said Wednesday on CNN. "First of all, we do have a domestic spying program, and what we need to be able to do is figure out how to balance these things, not pretend like there’s no balancing to be done.”


http://rt.com/usa/us-obama-surveillance-snowden-296/

Email service linked to NSA leaker Edward Snowden shuts down



From http://lavabit.com/

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Why does Lavabit need legal defense?

Russia "disappointed" bilateral talks with US cancelled
BBC News (US & Canada)
7 August 2013 Last updated at 17:10 ET

Quote:

...Russian foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday... ..."This decision is clearly linked to the situation with former agent of US special services [Edward] Snowden, which hasn't been created by us," he said during a phone conference with the press. "For many years, the Americans have avoided signing an extradition agreement," Mr Ushakov said, "And they have invariably responded negatively to our requests for extradition of people who committed crimes on the territory of Russia, pointing at the absence of such agreement." "Russian representatives are ready to continue working together with American partners on all key issues on the bilateral and multilateral agenda," Mr Ushakov said "For many years, the Americans have avoided signing an extradition agreement," Mr Ushakov said, "And they have invariably responded negatively to our requests for extradition of people who committed crimes on the territory of Russia, pointing at the absence of such agreement." But he added the invitation for the bilateral summit was still open. "Russian representatives are ready to continue working together with American partners on all key issues on the bilateral and multilateral agenda," Mr Ushakov said. The decision to cancel the talks, announced during a trip by the US president to Los Angeles...[to make an appearance on the Jay Leno evening chat-show?] ...in which he condemned a newly enacted anti-gay law in Russia. "I have no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them," Mr Obama said...

Its a real shame when the Russians make more sense than the American pResident in the White House. So essentially the matter boils down to being an issue concerning homosexuals? What a staggering baffoon and unmitigated walking disaster.

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I always though the whole concept of "lets hit the reset button" was ludicrious. As if to magically forget everything that happened in the past, or like it's a video game and you get another life, or reload a saved game and try something over.

Sadly, that's not how real life works. So i though the whole "reset" language being used by this administration was both nieve and laughable.

If you are interested in a different, special point of view concerning the administration's response to the NSA surveillance leaks, how the public and the Congress is totally disinformed about the facts and how the administration slowly turns mad about the whole issue.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...ce-leaks.shtml

From a NYT interview with Edward Snowden:

Why did you seek out Laura and Glenn, rather than journalists from major American news outlets (N.Y.T., W.P., W.S.J. etc.)?

Edward Snowden: After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power — the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government — for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism. From a business perspective, this was the obvious strategy, but what benefited the institutions ended up costing the public dearly. The major outlets are still only beginning to recover from this cold period.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/ma...ranscript.html

Made my day.