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The mystery of the whereabouts of Edward Snowden’s long-time girlfriend is solved in a documentary that premiered in New York on Friday night: she has been living with the national security whistleblower in Russia since July.
The surprise revelation in the documentary, filmed by Laura Poitras, upends the widespread assumption that Snowden had deserted Lindsay Mills and that she, in a fit of pique, fled Hawaii where they had been living to stay with her parents in mainland US.
Since Snowden, a former NSA contractor, outed himself last year as being behind the biggest leak in US intelligence history, Mills has remained silent, giving no interviews or any hints of her feelings on the subject of her boyfriend or his actions.
The two-hour long documentary, Citizenfour, shows Mills living in Russia with Snowden.
When the Guardian met Snowden in Moscow in July, Snowden suggested the relationship was more complex than the view constantly recycled in the media of a woman abandoned and hinted that the two were not in fact estranged.
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U.S. Air Force fires General Who Threatened Airmen With ‘Treason’
Coligny wrote:Save the warthog:
Maybe going better than expected...U.S. Air Force fires General Who Threatened Airmen With ‘Treason’
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/u-s-ai ... d8cb25aaf9
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologised to Tokyo after WikiLeaks claimed Washington had spied on Japanese politicians, a government spokesman said.
Obama held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Wednesday morning, spokesman Yoshihide Suga said, adding that the pair agreed to work together on global economic issues in the wake of a stock market meltdown sparked by fears over China.
President Obama said he was very sorry... as the case caused a big debate in Japan," Suga told a regular news conference, without confirming the spying claims.
He added that Abe reiterated his "serious concern" over the case.
"Prime Minister Abe told (Obama) that, if the Japanese people concerned were subject to these activities, it would risk jeopardising trusting relations between allies," Suga said.
Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.
matsuki wrote:Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.
How does a foreign country wiretap senior politicians in Japan?
matsuki wrote:Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.
How does a foreign country wiretap senior politicians in Japan?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:matsuki wrote:Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.
How does a foreign country wiretap senior politicians in Japan?
What's so surprising? They do that kind of shit all the time.
matsuki wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:matsuki wrote:Unlike German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande, Abe did not appear to be a direct target of wiretapping -- but other senior politicians were, according to WikiLeaks, including Trade Minister Yoichi Miyazawa.
How does a foreign country wiretap senior politicians in Japan?
What's so surprising? They do that kind of shit all the time.
In the past, yeah...but in 2015 Japan, seems like a bigger feat to pull off.
legion wrote:Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/
You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints
Samurai_Jerk wrote:legion wrote:Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/
You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints
Chuugoku mitai!
legion wrote:Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/
You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints
Coligny wrote:legion wrote:Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/
You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints
And it's impossible to use a dick print with the Iphone fingerprint reader...
legion wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:legion wrote:Biometric Data, what could possibly go wrong?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/opm_loses_millions_more_fingerprints/
You can change your password, you can't change your fingerprints
Chuugoku mitai!
Gee, that puts my mind at rest, for a minute I was worrying about all those fingerprints they collect at Narita.
matsuki wrote:Was gonna say, last I checked, I wasn't fingerprinted at the airport here [USA]....in Japan, another story.
One official said the jihadist, Mohammed Emwazi, was thought to be hit as he left a building in Raqqa, Syria, and entered a vehicle. The official called it a "flawless" and “clean hit” with no collateral damage and that Emwazi basically "evaporated."
Officials in the US are scrambling to determine whether he has been killed following the drone attacks in Raqqa, Islamic State's capital (bottom right). The British Isis militant, whose real name is Mohammed Emwazi, was reportedly 'eviscerated' when leaving a building and entering a vehicle.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Yeah, the "day in court" has come a bit out of fashion in the US. At least, they don't use trees and ropes any more for their justice, drones and evaporation are a definite step into the 21st century lynch justice...
Wage Slave wrote:Seems they have been watching our old friend Mohammed Emwazi.One official said the jihadist, Mohammed Emwazi, was thought to be hit as he left a building in Raqqa, Syria, and entered a vehicle. The official called it a "flawless" and “clean hit” with no collateral damage and that Emwazi basically "evaporated."
Perhaps it would have been better to take him alive and put him through the justice system but evaporation will do. Never heard of evaporation as a way of bumping someone off but, yeah, I can see that as polite alternative for blown to smithereens.
The Daily Mail, bless their red, white and blue underwear, managed to misreport it as eviscerated - which sounds far less tidy. Anyway, I don't believe everything the Pentagon says but this has the ring of truth. Evaporated it is then. Bye Bye.
Wonder if we will ever see the video. I do hope so.
https://gma.yahoo.com/jihadi-john-believed-killed-us-drone-strike-us-035317680--abc-news-topstories.html
Edit to add: I see the DM has corrected their top story. Sloppy as hell in the first place though. Evaporated it is.
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