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| Snowy Praises Brazil; Seeks Asylum |
| 2013-12-17 |
| NSA leaker Edward Snowden wrote in a lengthy “open letter to the people of Brazil” that he’s been inspired by the global debate ignited by his release of thousands of National Security Agency documents, and that the NSA’s culture of indiscriminate global espionage “is collapsing.” We should be so lucky.  He said he’d be willing to help the South American nation investigate NSA spying on its soil, but could not fully participate in doing so without being granted political asylum, because the U.S. “government will continue to interfere with my ability to speak.”You're lucky they do not interfere with your ability to breathe! Yet. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #1 "Today, if you carry a cell phone in São Paulo, the NSA can track where you are, and does. [...] "When a person in Florianopolis visits a website, the NSA keeps a record of when it happened and what you did on that site. If a mother in Porto Alegre calls her son to wish him luck on an exam, the NSA can save the recording of the call for five years or longer," he said in the letter." The Brazilian leader has also ordered her government to take several measures, including laying fiber optic lines directly to Europe and South American nations, to "divorce" Brazil from the U.S.-centric backbone of the Internet that experts say has facilitated NSA spying. This came after it was disclosed that the NSA was recording all of the President's phone calls as well as all communications of its major oil company. "The NSA and other allied intelligence agencies tell us that, for the sake of our own 'safety' - in the name of Dilma's 'safety' in the name of Petrobras's 'safety' - they revoked our right to privacy and invaded our lives. And they did not ask permission of the people from any country, not even their own," he said in another passage of the letter. The documents revealed that Brazil is the top NSA target in Latin America, in spying that has included the monitoring of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's cellphone and hacking into the internal network of state-run oil company Petrobras. The revelations enraged Rousseff, who in October canceled an official visit to Washington that was to include a state dinner. She's also pushing the United Nations to give citizens more protections against spying. (Foha de S. Paulo Newspaper) The Brazilian government accuses the US of committing crimes against the Brazilian people. |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo McCoy1948 2013-12-17 13:43 |