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On Friday, Bradley Manning’s defense team concluded their closing arguments by saying that the soldier is not a traitor. For nearly two months, Army Judge Col. Denise Lind heard both sides of the case for Manning’s involvement in disclosing hundreds-of-thousands of cable to the website WikiLeaks. RT’s Liz Wahl is at Fort Meade in Maryland with more.
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There are nearly 5 million people in the United States with security clearance, and any one of them could be the next Edward Snowden or Bradley Manning.
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Everyone is watched and recorded from birth to death!
Edward Snowden and what he has to say, as a high level (Above Top Secret person), should wake you up. The government you were taught you live under is bogus. We are all really living in the evil 4th Reich. Can it be stopped? . . . INSIDER GUEST CONTRIBUTER
Edward Snowden comes forward as source of NSA leaks
A 29-year-old man who says he is a former undercover CIA employee said Sunday that he was the principal source of recent disclosures about top-secret National Security Agency programs, exposing himself to possible prosecution in an acknowledgment that had little if any precedent in the long history of U.S. intelligence leaks.
Edward Snowden, a tech specialist who has contracted for the NSA and works for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, unmasked himself as a source after a string of stories in The Washington Post and the Guardian that detailed previously unknown U.S. surveillance programs. He said he disclosed secret documents in response to what he described as the systematic surveillance of innocent citizens.
In an interview Sunday, Snowden said he is willing to face the consequences of exposure. . . . Read Complete Report
Benghazi whistleblower Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the State Department’s counterterrorism bureau, is expected to level the allegation that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut his department out of the chain of reporting and decision-making. His testimony is set to begin on Wednesday before Chairman Darrell Issa’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
But there’s another official Fox News is reporting on.
Fox News has also learned that another official from the counterterrorism bureau — independently of Thompson — voiced the same complaint about Clinton and Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in October. . . . Read Complete Report
As we’ve reported before, the Obama administration has reached new heights when it comes to prosecuting whistleblowers. Under Obama’s presidency, seven people have been convicted in accordance with the Espionage Act of 1917 for leaking governmental information to the public.