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Re: Judge Rules Snowden Book Profits Must Be Handed to the Government

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Wed, 18 Dec 19 4:02 PM | 36 view(s)
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Snowden is a hero.

Look at what happened with FISA and its abuse by the FBI, and what Snowden revealed was a practice, not so e assholes doing stuoid stuff with FISA.

We need to keep tabs on that, as Obama failed that test. He tried to punish Snowden for revealing the dangers to our Constitutional rights that he had allowed to exist. He was pissed he was found out. He was worse than the Bush and Rumsfeld gang on this.

Patriot Act without checks and balances and proper court authorizations, top to bottom, is a MUST.

We have serious problems in our democracy, and we need to fix them, or we’ll lose our privacy and our rights, along with the prospect of an unchecked authoritarian who believes he’s above the law and knows better about everything..

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Judge Rules Snowden Book Profits Must Be Handed to the Government
By: clo in FFFT3
Wed, 18 Dec 19 3:14 PM 		Msg. 54713 of 65535

Judge Rules Snowden Book Profits Must Be Handed to the Government

Jamie Ross Reporter
Updated Dec. 18, 2019 6:14AM ET

Any money former National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden makes from his recent memoir and paid speeches must be handed to the U.S. government, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. In a brief opinion in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, Judge Liam O’Grady said the federal government was entitled to the money because Snowden disclosed classified information without approval. “The contractual language of the Secrecy Agreements is unambiguous,” wrote the judge.

“Snowden accepted employment and benefits conditioned upon prepublication review obligations.” Snowden has been charged with espionage since 2013, when he exposed surveillance documents in one of the biggest security breaches in U.S. history. The Justice Department, unable to put Snowden on trial while he’s in exile in Russia, instead moved to cut off his earnings from his book, Permanent Record, and from his paid speaking engagements.

Read it at The Washington Post

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