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Amnesty International comes out for Snowden: mass surveillance "a violation of human rights".
Amnesty has joined the ACLU, the New York Times, Robert Reich and Jimmy Carter among many others in supporting the position of Edward Snowden in a new report.
Two Years After Snowden: Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Mass Surveillance.
Governments must accept they have lost the debate over the legitimacy of mass surveillance and reform their oversight of intelligence gathering, Amnesty International and Privacy International said today in a briefing published two years after Edward Snowden blew the lid on US and UK intelligence agencies’ international spying network.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/two-years-after-snowden-protecting-human-rights-in-an-age-of-mass-surveillance
Visit the link to download the full report.
With each passing day it seems the administration has landed squarely on the wrong side of history with Edward Snowden. Time to bring him home with a clemency deal.
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Edward Snowden Unpopular at Home, A Hero Abroad, Poll Finds
The whistleblower is viewed negatively by 64 percent of Americans familiar with him, results say.
By Steven Nelson April 21, 2015
A poll of Americans and people living in nine other Western countries has found exiled whistleblower Edward Snowden is far more popular abroad than he is at home.
Snowden, a contractor who worked with the National Security Agency, ignited an intense, ongoing global policy debate about mass surveillance in June 2013 by exposing the collection of vast amounts of phone and Internet records and communications by the NSA and allied intelligence agencies.
For his efforts, about 64 percent of Americans familiar with Snowden hold a negative opinion of him, according to KRC Research poll results shared with U.S. News. Thirty-six percent hold a positive opinion, with just 8 percent holding a very positive opinion.
The survey was commissioned by the American Civil Liberties Union, which provides legal representation to Snowden, who received asylum in Russia after the U.S. canceled his passport.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/21/edward-snowden-unpopular-at-home-a-hero-abroad-poll-finds
The whistleblower is viewed negatively by 64 percent of Americans familiar with him, results say.
By Steven Nelson April 21, 2015
A poll of Americans and people living in nine other Western countries has found exiled whistleblower Edward Snowden is far more popular abroad than he is at home.
Snowden, a contractor who worked with the National Security Agency, ignited an intense, ongoing global policy debate about mass surveillance in June 2013 by exposing the collection of vast amounts of phone and Internet records and communications by the NSA and allied intelligence agencies.
For his efforts, about 64 percent of Americans familiar with Snowden hold a negative opinion of him, according to KRC Research poll results shared with U.S. News. Thirty-six percent hold a positive opinion, with just 8 percent holding a very positive opinion.
The survey was commissioned by the American Civil Liberties Union, which provides legal representation to Snowden, who received asylum in Russia after the U.S. canceled his passport.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/04/21/edward-snowden-unpopular-at-home-a-hero-abroad-poll-finds
And notice this poll was commissioned by his defenders. Not the result they were hoping for, I'm sure.
The weird thing is, the more awards he picks up from groups like AI, the higher his negatives become. I'm afraid he's made his bed, and now he has to lie in it, albeit in Putin's Russia.
