I would Love to put a Bullet in Snowden's Head - Pentagon Official

[Mani]

PLEASE DELETE, already has a thread.




http://news.yahoo.com/us-officials-39-want-kill-39-snowden-190324126.html?bcmt=1390786496353-2677788c-9ad5-43f5-b790-e9ca5534d5ab

Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden voiced fears that US "government officials want to kill me", in a TV interview to be broadcast in Germany Sunday.

The comment comes just days after Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said the American feared for his life, following a report by US website BuzzFeed of explicit threats against him from unnamed Pentagon and National Security Agency (NSA) officials.

Snowden also told the German broadcaster: "These people, and they are government officials, have said they would love to put a bullet in my head or poison me when I come out of the supermarket, and then watch as I die in the shower."

The translated Snowden quotes were released by German public television chain ARD, as part of a longer interview shot secretly in Moscow that it plans to screen later Sunday.

In a BuzzFeed article posted online last week and entitled "American Spies Want Edward Snowden Dead", a Pentagon official is quoted as saying: "I would love to put a bullet in his head."

"In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself," a current NSA analyst was further quoted as saying.

One unnamed army officer told BuzzFeed that Snowden could be "poked" on his way home from buying groceries by a passerby who is actually a US agent.

Snowden "thinks nothing of it at the time (and soon) starts to feel a little woozy," the US intelligence officer is quoted as saying. "And the next thing you know he dies in the shower."

Snowden, a former NSA contractor, is wanted by US authorities on treason charges for disclosing details of a vast intelligence operation that monitored millions of phone calls and emails across the world.

He received temporary asylum in Russia in August -- a move that infuriated the United States and was a key factor behind President Barack Obama's decision to cancel a summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin last year.

Kucherena told Russia's state-run Vesti 24 news channel on Tuesday that Snowden is constantly accompanied by security guards and is considering additional security measures.

The lawyer added that he planned to ask US authorities to look into the reported threats and possibly ask the media to identify their sources by name.

The German 30-minute interview will be broadcast Sunday at 2200 GMT, with initial extracts to be released during an earlier talk show at 2045 GMT.

[Mani]

Here is the buzzfeed article:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/americas-spies-want-edward-snowden-dead



Edward Snowden has made some dangerous enemies. As the American intelligence community struggles to contain the public damage done by the former National Security Agency contractor’s revelations of mass domestic spying, intelligence operators have continued to seethe in very personal terms against the 30-year-old whistle-blower.

“In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself,” a current NSA analyst told BuzzFeed. “A lot of people share this sentiment.”

“I would love to put a bullet in his head,” one Pentagon official, a former special forces officer, said bluntly. “I do not take pleasure in taking another human beings life, having to do it in uniform, but he is single-handedly the greatest traitor in American history.”

That violent hostility lies just beneath the surface of the domestic debate over NSA spying is still ongoing. Some members of Congress have hailed Snowden as a whistle-blower, the New York Times has called for clemency, and pundits regularly defend his actions on Sunday talk shows. In intelligence community circles, Snowden is considered a nothing short of a traitor in wartime.

“His name is cursed every day over here,” a defense contractor told BuzzFeed, speaking from an overseas intelligence collections base. “Most everyone I talk to says he needs to be tried and hung, forget the trial and just hang him.”

One Army intelligence officer even offered BuzzFeed a chillingly detailed fantasy.

“I think if we had the chance, we would end it very quickly,” he said. “Just casually walking on the streets of Moscow, coming back from buying his groceries. Going back to his flat and he is casually poked by a passerby. He thinks nothing of it at the time starts to feel a little woozy and thinks it’s a parasite from the local water. He goes home very innocently and next thing you know he dies in the shower.”

There is no indication that the United States has sought to take vengeance on Snowden, who is living in an undisclosed location in Russia without visible security measures, according to a recent Washington Post interview. And the intelligence operators who spoke to BuzzFeed on the condition of anonymity did not say they expected anyone to act on their desire for revenge. But their mood is widespread, people who regularly work with the intelligence community said.

“These guys are emoting how pissed they are,” Peter Singer, a cyber-security expert at the Brookings Institute. “Do you think people at the NSA would put a statue of him out front?”

The degree to which Snowden’s revelations have damaged intelligence operations are also being debated. Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the director of national intelligence, recently called the leaks “unnecessarily and extremely damaging to the United States and the intelligence community’s national security efforts,” and the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Dutch Ruppersberger said terrorists have been “changing their methods because of the leaks.” Snowden’s defenders dismiss those concerns as overblown, and the government has not pointed to specific incidents to bear out the claims.

On the ground, intelligence workers certainly say the damage has been done. The NSA officer complained that his sources had become “useless.” The Army intelligence officer said the revelations had increased his “blindness.”

“I do my work in a combat zone so now I have to see the effects of a Snowden in a combat zone. It will not be pretty,” he said.

And while government officials have a long record of overstating the damage from leaks, some specific consequences seem logical.

“By [Snowden] showing who our collections partners were, the terrorists have dropped those carriers and email addresses,” the DOD official said. “We can’t find them because he released that data. Their electronic signature is gone.”

[Teenager For Ron Paul]

We have a thread of this already

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?441643-American-spies-want-Snowden-hung&highlight=snowden+bullet

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

a Pentagon official is quoted as saying: "I would love to put a bullet in his head."

"In a world where I would not be restricted from killing an American, I personally would go and kill him myself," a current NSA analyst was further quoted as saying.

One unnamed army officer told BuzzFeed that Snowden could be "poked" on his way home from buying groceries by a passerby who is actually a US agent.

Snowden "thinks nothing of it at the time (and soon) starts to feel a little woozy," the US intelligence officer is quoted as saying. "And the next thing you know he dies in the shower."




LOL. These fantasy boys are the equivalent of forum keyboard commandos. "Oooo, I told a news reporter that I'm James Bond, so it must be true."

Dipshits.

[DamianTV]

Yeah, putting a bullet in someones head is the way we set the example for the rest of the world. Forget giving him a Fair and Speedy Trial, just put a bullet in his skull. Ignore his rights, we need to sweep this under the rug so we can continue Spying and Lying about it. Snowden is the criminal, not the NSA, nooooo, not the NSA! Not the Govt that wont reign in on NSA spying because thats all totally legal! Oh yeah, while were at it, we should go after Woodward Bernstein for exposing Watergate, which was also totally legal! /s

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