White House accuses Russia of providing ‘propaganda platform’ for Snowden
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[QUOTE]The White House criticized Russia on Friday for allowing National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to meet with human rights activists, calling it a “propaganda platform” for the man who seeks to avoid prosecution for leaking classified information about secret U.S. electronic surveillance programs.
A Russian lawmaker who was among the officials who met privately with Mr. Snowden in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo International Airport on Friday said Mr. Snowden wants asylum in Russia and is willing to stop sharing the secrets in his possession in exchange for such a deal.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Russia should instead send Mr. Snowden back to the U.S. to face the felony charges that are pending against him.
“Providing a propaganda platform for Mr. Snowden runs counter to the Russian government’s previous declarations of Russia’s neutrality and that they have no control over his presence in the airport,” Carney said. “It’s also incompatible with Russian assurances that they do not want Mr. Snowden to further damage U.S. interests.”
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki used similar language to express disappointment over the meeting.
“We are disappointed that Russian officials and agencies facilitated this meeting today by allowing these activists and representatives into the Moscow airport’s transit zone to meet with Mr. Snowden despite the government’s declarations of Russia’s neutrality with respect to Mr. Snowden,” Psaki said. “Our concern here is that he’s been provided this opportunity to speak in a propaganda platform.”
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Has the US apologized at all lately? If they did it would definitely help them a bit rather then just getting mad at everyone.
USA: "BUT MOMMY, HE TATTLED HE SHOULD GET IN TROUBLE"
Think like dictators. Shut down twitter, it gave Snowden a platform.
[editline]12th July 2013[/editline]
And Snowden would have faded from everyones memory by now had the US not been issuing press releases and pointing blame at every minute, the US public would have forgotten about it if they instead just looked at the Zimmerman trial.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;41434058]Think like dictators. Shut down twitter, it gave Snowden a platform.
[editline]12th July 2013[/editline]
And Snowden would have faded from everyones memory by now had the US not been issuing press releases and pointing blame at every minute, the US public would have forgotten about it if they instead just looked at the Zimmerman trial.[/QUOTE]
Yeah right they can get away with crimes against humanity but shutting down Twitter would cause revolts.
Not like we can accuse you of global espionage or anything right?...
[QUOTE=zakedodead;41434087]Yeah right they can get away with crimes against humanity but shutting down Twitter would cause revolts.[/QUOTE]
I'm joking. I'm saying that if they're accusing Russia of providing a platform, they should also accuse twitter or facebook.
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I think it would be more accurate to say Snowden gave a propaganda platform to Russia.
[QUOTE=zakedodead;41434087]Yeah right they can get away with crimes against humanity but shutting down Twitter would cause revolts.[/QUOTE]
It really wouldn't, infact the US goverment would have to do a [I]shit[/I] load wrong to get the populace to revolt, the average person is going to look at all their food/carts etc and wonder if it's worth the gamble.
Meanwhile Putin last week[QUOTE]
"If he (Snowden) wants to remain here there is one condition - he should stop his work aimed at inflicting damage on [B]our American partners[/B] no matter how strange this may sound coming from me."[/QUOTE]
Tone it down a bit White House, the Cold War has been over for awhile now.
They're just jealous that their propaganda efforts at making Snowden look bad have been pathetically ineffective.
it's coming! Cold War II: Snowden Boogaloo
[QUOTE=Reds;41436155]They're just jealous that their propaganda efforts at making Snowden look bad have been pathetically ineffective.[/QUOTE]
If anything its furthered his cause.
[editline]12th July 2013[/editline]
Well it looks like the second Cold War is gonna be pretty snowed in.
Cold War. 'Snow'den.
Coincidence? I think not.
Coldwar Version 2.0: Electric Boogaloo?
[QUOTE=Raidyr;41434433]Meanwhile Putin last week
Tone it down a bit White House, the Cold War has been over for awhile now.[/QUOTE]
Hah, the cold war aint over. It was never over. It just changed forms.
What the fuck is the US foreign policy?
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;41438124]What the fuck is the US foreign policy?[/QUOTE]
[del]Speak softly, and carry a big stick.[/del]
[sub]Scream at everyone, whilst swinging a tree branch.[/sub]
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