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“The current status of Mr Snowden and Harrison is that both are healthy and safe and they are in contact with their legal teams,” the WikiLeaks founder said. “I cannot give further information as to their whereabouts,” Assange added.
“Snowden is not a traitor, he is not a spy he is a whistleblower who told the public the important truth,” he pointed out.
WikiLeaks approached Iceland and other countries with a formal request for asylum for Snowden, says the organization’s spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson.
"The current status of Mr. Snowden and Harrison is that both are healthy and safe and they are in contact with their legal teams," Assange said, referring to Sarah Harrison, a WikiLeaks representative accompanying Snowden.
"Edward Snowden left Hong Kong on June 23 bound for Ecuador via a safe pass through Russia and other states," Assange told reporters on a conference call from inside Ecuador's embassy in London, where he has been himself hiding from arrest and extradition.
(Reporting by Rosalba O'Brien and Costas Pitas Writing by Maria Golovnina)
“Snowden is not a traitor, he is not a spy he is a whistleblower who told the public the important truth,” he pointed out.
Even though most of the debate has been focusing on the person of Snowden and the role/reaction of the U.S. government, Europe is directly concerned by the massive U.S. snooping on European citizens. So how has Europe reacted to this crisis so far? As expressed by the Guardian, “Officials in European capitals demanded immediate answers from their U.S. counterparts and denounced the practice of secretly gathering digital information on Europeans as unacceptable, illegal and a serious violation of basic rights.”
Originally posted by buster2010
Assange is wrong in the eyes of the law Snowden is a traitor.
Originally posted by buster2010
Snowden threw his life away for a very stupid reason. He didn't tell anything anyone with half a brain didn't already know.
Originally posted by buster2010
Government officials over the decades has said from time to time that the government listens in on phone calls and the spying on other nations well a person would have to no brain to not know that was happening.
Originally posted by cartenz
reply to post by buster2010
Its not about what we already knew--its about a paper trail of evidence. Without collecting the appropriate evidence then we would have no way of putting these criminals in the alphabet agencies on trial.
Originally posted by buster2010
Government officials over the decades has said from time to time that the government listens in on phone calls and the spying on other nations well a person would have to no brain to not know that was happening.
Originally posted by cartenz
reply to post by buster2010
Its not about what we already knew--its about a paper trail of evidence. Without collecting the appropriate evidence then we would have no way of putting these criminals in the alphabet agencies on trial.
Originally posted by Orwells Ghost
Originally posted by buster2010
Government officials over the decades has said from time to time that the government listens in on phone calls and the spying on other nations well a person would have to no brain to not know that was happening.
And that makes it okay...edit on 24-6-2013 by Orwells Ghost because: (no reason given)
Exactly, before now we had no documented evidence of what we all suspected.