Snowden information threat

[Bluewing]

just found this.... make of it what you will.... i say he is a traitor, period.

Edward Snowden, the former contractor at the National Security Agency took with him multiple “Doomsday” packages of information when he departed the country and began revealing how intensely the US Government is spying on its own citizens. He has the personal home info for all Elected Officials, Law Enforcement, Judges, Bankers, Corporate Boards of Directors and more!

At a classified briefing for members of Congress which took place on Wednesday, members found out that Snowden took with him:

* A complete roster of absolutely every employee and official of the entire US Government.
* The names, home addresses, unlisted personal home telephone and personal cellular phone numbers, dates of birth and social security numbers of every person involved in any way, with any department of the US Government.
* The files include elected officials, Cabinet appointees, Judges, and **ALL** law enforcement agency employees including sworn officers.
* Similar files with the personal information of EVERY government contractor and all employees of that contractor!
* Similar files with all the personal information of EVERY Bank Corporation, their operating officers and their Boards of Directors, including all current and former members of the Federal Reserve
* Similar files with all the personal information about anyone holding any type of license from the Government such as Doctors, Lawyers, Stock Brokers, Commodities Traders . . . . and many more.
* Similar files with all the personal information of EVERY non-bank Corporation in the U.S., including their operating officers and Boards of Directors.

Snowden has made it clear that if he is arrested, if he vanishes, or if he “dies” from any cause whatsoever, ALL of the information in his possession will be published publicly.

TRN has confirmed that, working through Julian Assange and his “WikiLeaks” organization, copies of the encrypted data have already been distributed to more than one-thousand, two hundred (1200) web sites around the world. Those sites have agreed to conceal the information until such time as contact with Snowden is “lost.” Once contact is lost, the sites have been told they will receive the Decryption keys via CD ROM, E-mail and P2P / Bit-Torrent file transfer. Once the decryption keys are sent, the sites have been instructed to wait a specific amount of time to confirm Snowden’s disappearance, arrest or death and upon expiration of that time period, to publish the decrypted materials.

Making the situation all the more dire for the government is that Snowden has made clear he will release some of the information under certain “other” circumstances. For instance, if Martial Law is declared in the US or if any elections are canceled for any reason, all the government employee info goes out. If an economic collapse takes place, all the Banker/Stock Broker/Commodities Trader information goes out. If Corporations start hyper-inflating prices, all the information about them, their officers and Board of Directors will go out.

Snowden literally has the most powerful people in the United States in an inescapable stranglehold. If any of the things articulated above take place, everyone throughout the country will know exactly who to blame and exactly where they live. One can only speculate that under the right conditions, it might not be long until those responsible for the problems of our country, faced consequences for their actions; consequences delivered one at a time, in the dark of night, when there is no help . . . . and no escape.

Leading members of the House Armed Services Committee emerged from the classified briefing “shocked” at the amount of information he reportedly took with him beyond the NSA surveillance programs.

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the Armed Service panel’s Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee and also a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the briefing on the defense consequences of Snowden’s leaks was “very highly classified,” and therefore details couldn’t be discussed.

Thornberry did say that lawmakers “left the briefing disturbed and angered” after hearing that the leaks by the former Booz Allen Hamilton employee “went well beyond programs associated with the NSA and data collection.”

He characterized the leaks as so severe that they “compromise military capability and defense of the country” and “could cost lives” — while they “will certainly cost billions to repair.”

“His actions were espionage, plain and simple,” Thornberry said.

Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) read his statement rather than making comments on the fly “because of the seriousness of this issue and the sensitivity” of the information they’d just heard.

“Ed Snowden isn’t a whistleblower; he’s a traitor,” McKeon said.

No matter what opinion people hold of the data collection programs, he added, people should be “shocked and outraged to find that a substantial amount of the information has nothing to do with the NSA.”

SOURCE:

Partial sourcing from: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/02/0...red-after-classified-briefing-reveals-extent-

 

[Glocktogo]

It sounds like all these files contain personal information on .gov employees and contractors. Seems to me this might be a privacy issue. Of course, the .gov has been saying that privacy is not a right and it's OK to gather this very information on citizens.

Are you saying that they're upset because they gathered private information on themselves and it's unfair that someone got ahold of that information? Hmm, I'll have to get right on being upset about that! LOL

 

[nandb]

If it's true, I love it. I had the privilege of hearing former NSA whistleblower William Binney speak of what Ed Snowden did. Ed did what he couldn't do which was get the hard evidence. He considers Snowden a hero.

 

[farmerbyron]

So the .gov is upset that someone has access to all of the information about them? How about that. Obvious hypocrisy is obvious.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

This would make a good movie!

I wonder if there will be a sniper attack or if it will be a drone.

 

[Bluewing]

So the .gov is upset that someone has access to all of the information about them? How about that. Obvious hypocrisy is obvious.

I agree. The problem i have with Snowden is he went to work for a .gov Security organization and stole information and is threatening to release it to the world.
Where does it stop? I am not talking about the right and wrong of the gathering or use(by our gov) of the information, but the fact is this has the potential to hurt alot of good people. Do any of us want our personal information released to the world?

 

[Oklahomabassin]

I agree. The problem i have with Snowden is he went to work for a .gov Security organization and stole information and is threatening to release it to the world.
Where does it stop? I am not talking about the right and wrong of the gathering or use(by our gov) of the information, but the fact is this has the potential to hurt alot of good people. Do any of us want our personal information released to the world?

It is already out there. If somebody wanted to find out about you, it would be no problem at all.

edit to add. I despise most of anything the Government does.

 

[p238shooter]

While I agree what he did was not legal or ethical, what he has done shows our US Government is even less legal and ethical than some of us considered. It seems his data collection methods were "automatic" and it collected anything it could find, and he most likely found more than even he expected. We do expect our intelligence agencies to "spy" on other countries for military and economic reasons, they are aware of this just as they try to spy on us. This makes sense for the security of our country.

What this has brought out though that seems to be most disturbing to most of us is the detail our US Government is spying on all of its own US Citizens in ways that are illegal, un-ethical, and down right immoral. Most of us should not be considered a terror threat to our nation enough that detailed information of this sort should be collected, filed, scrutinized, and kept on every US Citizen. Every move we make we are tracked, every text we send copied, every email copied, every telephone call we make is logged, and most likely recorded or soon will be, every purchase we make is filled, basically every trip we make to the bathroom is recorded and kept on file.

Notice how most every app in your phone says it can listen and take pictures on it's own with out your knowledge, might not be doing that today, but when you accepted the app it can be turned on any time in the future.

I do see getting a court order to track a suspected bad guy to turn on these capabilities should be considered, but to "watch, monitor, and log" every person's activities in the US on a minute by minute basis in my opinion is going to far, and way beyond what our Constitution allows.

I have noticed the put down's of people wearing "tin foil hats" has virtually disappeared on this site. I guess they were right all along.

As long as this country follows our Constitution, and we have "justice and equality for all", I guess we will be OK, not looking so good at the moment though.

 

[Spata]

just think of the damage a few pissed off ex-marines could do with those lists...

 

[doctorjj]

If he were a traitor and wanted to wreak havoc, he would have release all those names and personal information first thing. Instead, he has only confirmed what a lot of us knew all along, the government is out of control. He is trying to reign that in.