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Ask SoylentNews: What Happened to the "Second Snowden"?

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 06 2014, @02:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the he-just-disappeared  dept.

Pav writes:

The fifth NSA whistleblower, or the second Snowden if you prefer, has disappeared without trace as far as my limited Google-fu can tell. The raid reported in the link was conducted by the FBI in late October, but there has been no reporting since of what they found or any subsequent arrests. Is anyone in Soylent-world more aware of what's going on in this case?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by gumby on Monday December 08 2014, @01:28AM

    by gumby (3079) on Monday December 08 2014, @01:28AM (#123610)

    It's pretty terrible that your nihilism has gotten to the point that anything you can't believe you attribute to imagined "supermax" and such being tortured.

    You know, AC, I used to share your viewpoint. When the first high profile prisoner in Abu Graib died, and the US was blamed, I was sure it was a dreadful coincidence. Other regimes would torture a prisoner to death, but surely not the US. As a matter of state policy they didn't even do it in WWII[*]

    But since learning what happened there, and about the black site renditions, and the punitive treatment of Chelsea Manning and other whistleblowers (not to mention the continued use of the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay) it's become hard to believe that these guys are really on our side.

    And I would agree that normally "when they catch spies they make a big deal of it". But in this case there was a publicized raid and then... silence. If they had raided the wrong person, that person would be making a public stink. But instead, nothing. This kind of silence is even scarier, as plenty of regimes in history have already shown.

    [*] People aren't saints and plenty of atrocities happened on all sides in WWII. But for the US in the 20th century I believe they were "retail". It seems that in the 21st century they have gone back to wholesale abuse.