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Snowden Letter to Merkel: 'Speaking The Truth Is Not A
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. "Though the outcome of my efforts has been demonstrably positive, my government continues to treat dissent as defection, and seeks to criminalize political speech with felony charges that provide no defense," Edward Snowden says in his letter.
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By Agencies and Information Clearing House.
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Here is the text of Snowden’s letter, which Reuters reports is to chancellor Angela Merkel, the German parliament and federal prosecutors.
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To whom it may concern,
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RE: I have been invited to write to you regarding your investigation of mass surveillance.
I am Edward Joseph Snowden, formerly employed through contracts or direct hire as a technical expert for the United States National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, and Defense Intelligence Agency.
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the course of my service to these organizations, I
believe I witnessed systemic violations of law by my
government that created a moral duty to act. As a result
of reporting these concerns, I have face a severe and
sustained campaign of persecution that forced me from my
family and home. I am currently living in exile under a
grant of temporary asylum in the Russian Federation in
accordance with international law.
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I
am heartened by the response to my act of political
expression, in both the United States and beyond.
Citizens around the world as well as high officials –
including in the United States – have judged the
revelation of an unaccountable system of pervasive
surveillance to be a public service. These spying
revelations have resulted in the proposal of many new
laws and policies to address formerly concealed abuses
of the public trust. The benefits to society of this
growing knowledge are becoming increasingly clear at the
same time claimed risks are being shown to have been
mitigated.
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- Western Intelligence backing of 'al-Qaeda' and the Muslim Brotherhood since the 1970's in Iran, Afghanistan, Syria and Egypt....which massively destabilizes the world. The policy originates within the British Empire as a tool of subverting SECULAR nationalist movements against British Colonialism in India 1905, Egypt 1928, and Iran 1950's......and adopted very slowly by the USA since the 1970's...and given affect in Iran in 1979, and Afghanistan 1979, Egypt 1981 and Syria 1982.....and ramped up since 2011 via the so called 'Arab Spring' by the CIA/State Departments which have brought Muslim Brotherhood/al-Qaeda/Salafi/Wahabi elements to the fore in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq and now tragically with the death of 100,000 people, Syria. An evil policy conceived and birthed by the evil British empire to serve its interests cannot be of any good to any nation including the UK, the originator of this evil policy. Israel created Hamas and the al-Aqsa Mosque brigade, from the 1970's taking its que from Bernard Lewis the high British Intelligence operative. Such a huge COVERT policy with very little STATE oversight has a massively corrupting effect on the USA/UK and any other state which becomes embroiled in this former British Empire colonial policy.
- The trafficking of narcotics by the CIA/Pentagon and other state agencies has a massively corrupting effect on the USA which is the biggest consumer of narcotics in the world...$1,000 billion annually?....this area is not audited....so nobody can place the precise figure. This policy originated in the evil British Empire from the 18th century and the East India Company specifically, where India was used as the huge plantation for Opium and China acted as the captured market. This policy was adopted by the USA state via the CIA/Pentagon from the 1960'S where WAR would act as a COVER for this new enterprise, and the money laundered in Wall Street and the City in London. This is what the Vietnam War was about 1965--75, which unofficially killed 150,000 American servicemen and 4 million Vietnamese...and the FIXING of narcotics business from SE ASIA into the USA....THROUGH the use of local triad and mafia groups. This what the Afghanistan 'war' is about for the CIA/Pentagon SINCE 2001-2013. Afghanistan acts like India 200 years earlier as a Opium plantation for the CIA/Pentagon, under whose occupation Opium production has skyrocketed...whilst the brave warriors of the CIA/Pentagon fight a fake war with the controlled opposition of the Taliban managed by the CIA funded ISI..in Pakistan. Suffice to say WAR and NARCOTICS are bad combinations for the peace and stability of the world which are packaged as security concerns for the USA of the highest order.
- CIA/PENTAGON child trafficking, pedophilia, murder, ritual sacrifice.
- USA destabilization of states around the world.
- USA/CIA currency counterfeiting.
- USA states incessant conduct of war against Third World nations since 1945. Wars against nations of color, specifically.
- The USA's posturing as an empire, with 1000 military bases around the world...and the adoption of the policy of 'Full Spectrum Dominance'
- The USA's creation of a super-police state within its borders, and the imposition of a super police state in the rest of the world through false acts.
- The USA's illegal rendition programs, black torture sites which are secret...and the unofficial running of other such gulags around the world, and the tacit encouraging of other governments to join in the 'fun' of the USA.
- The USA's drone wars in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia which kill civilians mainly, based on weak intelligence against purported 'al-CIA-duh' targets in such countries. The reality is that such organizations are run by the CIA in the first place......so the USA acting as judge, jury executioner is to say the least extremely illegal.
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Though the outcome of my efforts has been demonstrably
positive, my government continues to treat dissent as
defection, and seeks to criminalize political speech
with felony charges that provide no defense. However,
speaking the truth is not a crime. I am confident that
with the support of the international community, the
government of the United States will abandon this
harmful behavior. I hope that when the difficulties of
this humanitarian situation have been resolved, I will
be able to cooperate in the responsible finding of fact
regarding reports in the media, particularly in regard
to the truth and authenticity of documents, as
appropriate and in accordance with the law.
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I
look forward to speaking with you in your country when
the situation is resolved, and thank you for your
efforts in upholding the international laws that protect
us all.
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With my best regards,
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Edward Snowden