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August 13, 2013

Restore Honor and Pardon Edward Snowden | The Nation

…Julian Assange, no stranger to unrequited integrity, nailed it. “Today, the president of the United States validated Edward Snowden’s role as a whistleblower by announcing plans to reform America’s global surveillance program,” the WikiLeaks founder said in a statement posted Saturday, the day after Obama’s remarks.

While boasting, “I called for a review of our surveillance programs,” Obama avoided the obvious fact that this review was compelled not by a sudden burst of respect for the safeguards demanded by our Constitution but rather Snowden’s action in making the public cognizant of the astounding breadth and depth of the National Security Agency’s spying program…

via Restore Honor and Pardon Edward Snowden | The Nation.

Julian Assange says US plan to limit surveillance programs vindicates Edward Snowden (abc.net.au)
Edward Snowden Joins Goldman Sachs, Receives Full Pardon (dailycurrant.com)

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Keith “Maggie” Brown

I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.

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Tags: barack obama, counter-terrorism, edward snowden, global surveillance program, Goldman Sachs, julian assange, Nation, National Security, national security agency, Obama, president of the united states, safeguards, surveillance programs, United States, whistleblower, Wikileaks

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