WHY IS ED SNOWDEN PREPARED TO GIVE THE CHANNEL 4 CHRISTMAS DAY MESSAGE BUT NOT ANSWER SIBEL EDMONDS QUESTIONS?

Finally, at long last, there was some kind of resistance shown against the Ed Snowden lovefest last week when Sibel Edmonds asked Snowden in an open letter 8 incisive questions:

What was your foremost intention for making the decision to obtain thousands of documents that implicated the United States government?

What was your foremost intention for actually taking the action following your decision, and obtaining those documents?

At the time, when you were obtaining the documents, did you target particular categories of implicating documents, or did you just grab everything you could?

1. If you vetted the documents, or the specific categories of documents, beforehand, and then went about obtaining them, then why would you ask journalists to vet and make personal judgments on which ones to release or which ones to withhold permanently?
2. If you didn’t vet the documents prior to obtaining them, and if you asked particular journalists to vet them and decide what to release and what to withhold, did you make any demands to ensure that you were part of that vetting process and that they had to have your consent?
3. If you didn’t vet the documents prior to obtaining them, and if you asked particular journalists to vet them and decide what to release and what to withhold, did you also asked them to have meetings with U.S. and U.K. government agencies, and have those who were actually implicated in your documents call the shots on what to withhold and what to release?

Did you provide Glenn Greenwald with your explicit consent and authorization to make decisions on what to release and what to withhold? If so, was this in writing? If so, why and how did you make that decision?

1. For example: Mr. Greenwald entered in a contractual agreement with a mainstream corporate publisher to withhold certain documents only to include them exclusively in his coming book in return for millions of dollars. Did you sanction this decision? Do you find this action justified and reasonable?

Did you provide Mr. Greenwald with your explicit consent to strike a business venture with a corporation that is a known cooperative partner of the NSA in a $250 million deal? Did you authorize Mr. Greenwald to withhold 99% of the documents and transfer their ownership to the corporate news entity owned by PayPal’s Pierre Omidyar? If yes, when and how did you provide your consent and approval? What was your reasoning for sanctioning and or authorizing this transfer of document ownership, and to withhold the vast majority of these documents from the public and its right to know?

Do you believe it is reasonable, justified and acceptable that the person you gave the ownership of these documents to is commoditizing and profiting from these documents that are considered classified and stolen by the United States government, yet were considered by you as evidence to which the people have the right to know about?

1. If yes, then, do you believe that it is acceptable and correct for entities who obtain classified and incriminating government documents to market these documents as commodities, and offer them to the highest bidders, whether the bidder is the government, or a corporation, or a book publisher?
2. If your answer to above question (a) is yes, then, do you believe you are also entitled to benefit and profit from the sale and censorship of these documents?

Have you made any venture deals or entered into any contract with Mr. Greenwald where you will receive a cut from the millions of dollars that are being obtained by him in return for publication and withholding certain portions of the NSA documents?

1. If yes, when, where and how?
2. If yes, then, does your flexibility on the sale and commoditization of stolen and classified government documents also extend to foreign government entities?

This appears to be the first case labeled and categorized as a whistleblowing case where a leak is being commoditized at a value of hundreds of millions of dollars by corporations such as PayPal, Book publishers and Hollywood studios. Could you provide us with your general stand, principles and values with regard to leaking and disclosing for political and profit motives?

[source : Mr. Snowden, It’s Time to Come Out and Take a Stand Publicly as to Your Intentions, Boiling Frogs, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/12/15/mr-snowden-its-time-to-come-out-and-take-a-stand-publicly-as-to-your-intentions/, 15th December 2013]

Well, I've just had a good look at Edmonds' website Boiling Frogs, and I assume that Snowden has not answered her questions because there does not yet appear to be a reply to Edmonds' questions on her website.

The reason why I looked at Edmonds' Boiling Frogs website is because Ed Snowden is to give the Channel 4 Christmas Day Message this year.

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who prompted a worldwide debate when he leaked a cache of top secret documents about US and UK spying, has recorded a Christmas Day television message in which he calls for an end to the mass surveillance revealed by his disclosures.

The short film was recorded for Channel 4, which has 20-year history of providing unusual but relevant figures as an alternative to the Queen's Christmas message shown by other UK broadcasters. It will be Snowden's first television appearance since arriving in Moscow.

[source : Edward Snowden to broadcast Channel 4's alternative Christmas Day message, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/24/edward-snowden-channel-4-christmas-day-message, 24th December 2013]

Readers will know that I was immediately highly sceptical of Ed Snowden. The conduit of his allegations was The Guardian. I demolished the credibility of The Guardian last week with an analysis of its editorials on Syria since the horrific events at Ghouta. The Guardian detests Assad more than it detests Putin. So when The Guardian began publishing the allegations of Snowden shortly after the Syrian rebels lost the strategically important al Qusair I smelled a big fat NATO rat. This scepticism was all but proved when it was casually announced that Glenn Greenwald would be teaming up with Jeremy Scahill, who had just launched his own personal but very public dirty war against arguably the bravest woman on the planet, Mother Agnes Mariam, when he torpedoed her appearance at the Stop The War conference a few weeks ago.

So, why would Snowden appear on Channel 4 TV to give a Christmas Day Message, but not answer in writing the perfectly legitimate and intelligent questions of Sibel Edmonds?

Answers on a postcard please to:
NATO Mass Psyop Department
Brussels
Kiddie Fiddling Belgium
Europe
The World
The Solar System
The Milky Way
The Universe
The Simulation