The Snowden Affair

Player 0 said:

The law might prohibit that, but there is a precedent of assassinations against American citizens with drones, they might be openly affiliated with terrorist groups, but they were still US citizens all the same.

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Snowden is too high profile to be "dealt with" in such manner. It would be nearly impossible to label Snowden a terrorist after what the entire world has known about the whole thing, thus impossible to justify the use of drones and execution. Drone attacks will directly be linked to the US and almost be like the US govn't shouting to the world "we executed Snowden". Using drones is like sending assassins wearing US uniforms and waving American flags. That is a method that should never be used in an assassination. The previous cases of using drones on US citizens would more likely to be public execution than assassination.

^^^ The CIA could go old skool. Like the way Michael Hastings had a car "accident". Now what kind of "accidents" could happen in a airport terminal?

lostsoul said:

^^^ The CIA could go old skool. Like the way Michael Hastings had a car "accident". Now what kind of "accidents" could happen in a airport terminal?

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I read one article about that Michael Hastings 'car accident' and that was kind of freaky. Not only that the media doesn't even cover the story as widely to the audience as well, therefore it became almost a virtual unknown.

If it's true that the full documents have been distributed to a few other individuals, they could make some kind of peace deal with Snowden to get access to these documents and destroy them. The prearranged accident that will happen to Snowden will come later.

Quickie said:

If it's true that the full documents have been distributed to a few other individuals, they could make some kind of peace deal with Snowden to get access to these documents and destroy them. The prearranged accident that will happen to Snowden will come later.

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Or they could mark those individuals out, send out several black-ops hit squad to take them all out and retrieve the documents. It's not like those journalists practice UBL-grade field craft, so it should be cake walk, hit-and-grab...as long as the killings made outside US borders the Americans won't care.

MwRYum said:

Or they could mark those individuals out, send out several black-ops hit squad to take them all out and retrieve the documents. It's not like those journalists practice UBL-grade field craft, so it should be cake walk, hit-and-grab...as long as the killings made outside US borders the Americans won't care.

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Again, too high profile for that kind of stuff. I don't doubt the US sends black ops for assassination jobs. However, with the US laws strictly prohibiting assassinations, a black ops job on something this high profile will get the Obama admin into a much deeper mess that they are already in. I mean the purpose of a black ops is so that no one knows you did it. If something happens to Snowden or anyone linked to him, EVERYONE in the world will know the US did it. So what's the purpose of using black ops, except getting the Obama admin into a deeper mess and exposing valuable intelligence assets? Note that the valuable assets I am referring to has nothing to do with what Snowden has, but the actual assassination attempt. Since everyone will know it must have something to do with the US, they will be given the biggest and most obvious clue they could ever dream of. With the direction already pointed to them, intelligence agencies in other nations might be able to trace it back and find some covert US agents undercover overseas from what happens to Snowden.

And I don't think this would be a small deal even domestically. I mean spying on US citizens is one thing, but sending assassins to kill US citizens to shut them up is something entirely different. If it happens to someone no one knows, that would be no biggie. But again, Snowden is so high profile now. IMO, if something fishy happens to Sonwden, Obama will be impeached.

Equation said:

I read one article about that Michael Hastings 'car accident' and that was kind of freaky. Not only that the media doesn't even cover the story as widely to the audience as well, therefore it became almost a virtual unknown.

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Well, Michael Hastings death was widely but very superficially covered even by typical mass media standards. Some news outlets went into enough detail for the average person to wonder about it, but certainly most people would not have noticed anything out of the ordinary.

With Edward Snowden, he is equally likely to have acted in good faith according to his ideals for the US or have been compromised by another country. Regardless of his real motives, the information he revealed regarding domestic spying is definitely beneficial to the American public as everyone in the country has now been put on notice regarding these practices. He should not be revealing any information regarding US international intelligence activities, in this regard his self-exile has definitely put him in a compromising light as well as position.

I have heard Edward Snowden might be a "plant" for a faction of the US government, involved in a rivalry with the .

[video=youtube;R3m30Wld2_M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R3m30Wld2_M#at=145[/video]
[video=youtube;C06IzuSx4G0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=C06IzuSx4G0#at=171[/video]

Ryz05 said:

I have heard Edward Snowden might be a "plant" for a faction of the US government, involved in a rivalry with the

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It would sound credible if Snowden had been less American but more foreign like a Muslim, or Russian born. That way, he would not suffer much but just slip back to his home where he is now, like Anna Chapman's modus operandi.

t2contra said:

It would sound credible if Snowden had been less American but more foreign like a Muslim, or Russian born. That way, he would not suffer much but just slip back to his home where he is now, like Anna Chapman's modus operandi.

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That would make him sound more like a spy, while being American makes for more credibility in sounding like a government agent.

Also, did you watch the videos? What do you think of them?