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Snowden - Putin's Useful Idiot
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: April 18, 2014 03:58PM
http://www.dw.de/useful-idiot-snowden-defends-televised-espionage-question-put-to-putin/a-17578156
In Russia on a temporary asylum deal, the former contractor for the US National Security Agency (NSA) asked first whether Russia stored people's communications en masse, and secondly whether monitoring "societies, not subjects" could be morally justified. Putin replied that for secret services to "stalk someone," a court order was required, also claiming that Russian authorities were not as technically or financially well-equipped as their US counterparts.
Germany's mass-circulation Bild newspaper published a commentary from Julian Reichelt titled "Edward Snowden in the Putin-trap," at one point asking "what more do we need to recognize that Edward Snowden is now under the complete control of the Kremlin." Reichelt linked to his commentary on Twitter with the following teaser: "How Ed Snowden became Putin's poodle. At intelligence agencies, you call people like this 'useful idiots'."
On Thursday, Reichelt had called for a direct response from veteran Green politician Hans-Christian Ströbele, a vocal advocate of calling Snowden as a witness in Germany's ongoing parliamentary inquiry into the actions of intelligence agencies like the NSA.
In Russia on a temporary asylum deal, the former contractor for the US National Security Agency (NSA) asked first whether Russia stored people's communications en masse, and secondly whether monitoring "societies, not subjects" could be morally justified. Putin replied that for secret services to "stalk someone," a court order was required, also claiming that Russian authorities were not as technically or financially well-equipped as their US counterparts.
Germany's mass-circulation Bild newspaper published a commentary from Julian Reichelt titled "Edward Snowden in the Putin-trap," at one point asking "what more do we need to recognize that Edward Snowden is now under the complete control of the Kremlin." Reichelt linked to his commentary on Twitter with the following teaser: "How Ed Snowden became Putin's poodle. At intelligence agencies, you call people like this 'useful idiots'."
On Thursday, Reichelt had called for a direct response from veteran Green politician Hans-Christian Ströbele, a vocal advocate of calling Snowden as a witness in Germany's ongoing parliamentary inquiry into the actions of intelligence agencies like the NSA.
Re: Snowden - Putin's Useful Idiot
Posted by:
cDxGk
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Date: April 19, 2014 05:53AM
>claiming that Russian authorities were not as technically or financially well-equipped as their US counterparts.
Which is basically saying "if we could we would but we can't so we don't".
Which is basically saying "if we could we would but we can't so we don't".