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Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Armchair_QB, Aug 1, 2013.

  1. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Snowden will be dead by Labor Day.
     
  2. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Highly likely if he's granted a drivers' license.

     
  3. dog eat dog world

    dog eat dog world New Member

    It's a fucking joke this doesn't qualify as a politics thread.
     
  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Why?
     
  5. dog eat dog world

    dog eat dog world New Member

    It's as political as the SCOTUS crap, which was actually judicial.
    But it depends on who starts the threads. Everyone knows that.
     
  6. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Well, I guess if you have a problem with it, the simple thing to do is not click on it. This is a legitimate news story whether you like it or not.
     
  7. dog eat dog world

    dog eat dog world New Member

    Legitimate news stories get locked all the time on here ...depends on who you are. Congrats, you're special.
    To set it straight, I don't have a problem with your thread. I don't have a problem with the politics thread being an all open warfare, anything goes example of liberal tolerance that is actually tolerance. But we know that ain't, and it's why I'm merely doing a drive-by.
     
  8. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Retrace the thread.

    For 10 posts, nobody said anything more than remotely political.

    Then somebody did. As usual.
     
  9. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Hypocrisy?

     
  10. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member

    This cracking down hard on leakers pretty much sums up a lot of the Obama presidency in a nutshell. No one on the right gives him credit for it and the left hates him for it.
     
  11. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    Great story in the NYT Sunday magazine yesterday about the reporters who worked with Snowden and what they had to go through in the day-to-day work of this kind of story (for instance, getting stopped, detained and questioned virtually every time they were on a flight entering or leaving the U.S.). I guess this has been going on for longer than I knew, but I was floored at the last sentence of this graf:

    In April, Poitras e-mailed Greenwald to say they needed to speak face to face. Greenwald happened to be in the United States, speaking at a conference in a suburb of New York City, and the two met in the lobby of his hotel. “She was very cautious,” Greenwald recalled. “She insisted that I not take my cellphone, because of this ability the government has to remotely listen to cellphones even when they are turned off."

    A quick Internet search confirms that, indeed, this is possible. I'll be damned.
     
  12. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    Which dovetails rather well with the news that Greenwald's partner* was detained for the maximum nine hours at Heathrow under the U.K.'s Terrorism Act, eventually being released without any of his electronics.

    *-Yes, said partner is male, although referring to a boyfriend/girlfriend as a "partner" is common in Britain for both gay and straight relationships.
     
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