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К моей недавней записи "О героях" поступило очень много комментариев. В основном, не о Pussy Riot, а об Эдварде Сноудене.
Наверное, многим будет интересно, что сегодня в Нью-Йорк Таймс и Гардиан опубликованы editorials (не знаю как это по-русские, мнение редакции?), в которых эти газеты призывают Обаму помиловать Сноудена.
NYT -- Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
Гардиан -- Snowden affair: the case for a pardon
Кратко смысл обоих editorials сформулирован здесь:
Величие Сноудена хорошо выражено в этом отрывке из NYT:
Наверное, многим будет интересно, что сегодня в Нью-Йорк Таймс и Гардиан опубликованы editorials (не знаю как это по-русские, мнение редакции?), в которых эти газеты призывают Обаму помиловать Сноудена.
NYT -- Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower
Гардиан -- Snowden affair: the case for a pardon
Кратко смысл обоих editorials сформулирован здесь:
Edward Snowden is a heroic whistle-blower who exposed wrongdoing by U.S. government spy agencies and deserves clemency — or even a full pardon from President Barack Obama.Как по мне, так Сноуден не снисхождения заслуживает, а благодарности президента и ордена "За заслуги перед [американским] Отечеством". Но, думаю, и шансов на просто помилование от Обамы нет.
Величие Сноудена хорошо выражено в этом отрывке из NYT:
Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United States and around the globe, as it collects information about their phone calls, their email messages, their friends and contacts, how they spend their days and where they spend their nights. The public learned in great detail how the agency has exceeded its mandate and abused its authority, prompting outrage at kitchen tables and at the desks of Congress, which may finally begin to limit these practices.Так же в NYT хорошо написано про... ну как сказать, вранье (?) Обамы:
The revelations have already prompted two federal judges to accuse the N.S.A. of violating the Constitution (although a third, unfortunately, found the dragnet surveillance to be legal). A panel appointed by President Obama issued a powerful indictment of the agency’s invasions of privacy and called for a major overhaul of its operations.
All of this is entirely because of information provided to journalists by Edward Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor who stole a trove of highly classified documents after he became disillusioned with the agency’s voraciousness.
The president said in August that Mr. Snowden should come home to face those charges in court and suggested that if Mr. Snowden had wanted to avoid criminal charges he could have simply told his superiors about the abuses, acting, in other words, as a whistle-blower.И вот еще по ссылке из Гардиан: -- Ex-CIA director: Snowden should be ‘hanged’ if convicted for treason
“If the concern was that somehow this was the only way to get this information out to the public, I signed an executive order well before Mr. Snowden leaked this information that provided whistle-blower protection to the intelligence community for the first time,” Mr. Obama said at a news conference. “So there were other avenues available for somebody whose conscience was stirred and thought that they needed to question government actions.”
In fact, that executive order did not apply to contractors, only to intelligence employees, rendering its protections useless to Mr. Snowden. More important, Mr. Snowden told The Washington Post earlier this month that he did report his misgivings to two superiors at the agency, showing them the volume of data collected by the N.S.A., and that they took no action. (The N.S.A. says there is no evidence of this.) That’s almost certainly because the agency and its leaders don’t consider these collection programs to be an abuse and would never have acted on Mr. Snowden’s concerns.
Woolsey, along with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Hugh Shelton, spoke Tuesday in Washington in an interview with Fox News.
“I think giving him amnesty is idiotic,” Woolsey said. “He should be prosecuted for treason. If convicted by a jury of his peers, he should be hanged by his neck until he is dead."
