Ruslan Gattarov, thượng nghị sĩ của Quốc hội Nga đã thành lập một quỹ tiền ủng hộ Edward Snowden. Hiện nay riêng tại Nga đã có nhiều trang dịch vụ mạng gửi tiền ủng hộ việc làm của Snowden cũng như để giúp Snowden trong thời gian chưa có nguồn thu nhập sinh sống. Riêng ông Pavel Durov, sáng lập viên trang mạng kết nối xã hội, VKontakte tại Nga đã ngỏ ý mời Snowden làm việc cho công ty này.
Trong vị thế đặc biệt cũng nhu mục tiêu của Snowden khiến anh cần phải suy nghĩ cân nhắc rất kỹ lưỡng từng hành động không chỉ riêng tại Mỹ hay Nga, mà ở bất cứ nơi nào còn định chế Nhà Nuớc.
Một điều đang vui là đám nhà nuớc và báo chí tay sai đã thất bại trong nỗ lực bôi nhọ Snowden cũng như đánh lạc hướng thông tin. Vì hiện nay riêng tại Mỹ cũng như tại các quốc gia Âu Châu, dân chúng đang tập trung vào tranh luận nhũng thông tin Snowden tung ra, buộc bọn nhà nuớc phải chống đỡ. Đấy chính là mục đích của Snowden, thức tỉnh quần chúng và lôi kéo công chúng QUAN TÂM vào CHÍNH TRỊ và LUẬT PHÁP để bảo vệ DÂN QUYỀN và NHÂN QUYỀN của chính họ.
Riêng các tổ chức dân sự toàn cầu, hơn 150 tổ chức cũng đã cùng gửi thư yêu cầu chính phủ Obama ngưng ngay việc săn đuổi làm khó khăn Snowden để tập trung vào một cuộc tranh luận công chúng cho lãnh vực AN NINH QUỐC GIA và QUYỀN RIÊNG TƯ cũng như QUYỀN TỰ DO NGÔN LUẬN của CÔNG DÂN.
Đây là những chiến thắng nhỏ tiên khởi cho mục tiêu mà Snowden theo đuổi.
Russian senator raises funds for Edward Snowden
United Russia politician Ruslan Gattarov says he has set up a website to gather money for the NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden, third right, leaves Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow with his Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, second right. Photograph: AP/Russia24
Russian senator Ruslan Gattarov has begun a campaign to raise funds for Edward Snowden, claiming that the whistleblower is running out of money. Gattarov is also seeking the whistleblower's help in investigating the security of Russians' personal data.
Gattarov, a member of the ruling United Russia party, has said he will open a bank account and create a website to gather donations for the National Security Agency leaker, who was last week granted temporary asylum in Russia.
Gattarov told the Izvestiya newspaper that the domain name helpsnowden.ru had been registered and volunteers from several IT companies were developing the website.
The site will be available at helpsnowden.net for international donors. Neither website was working on Wednesday.
Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Izvestiya that the whistleblower would gratefully accept the help of donors in Russia and other countries. "Edward is not a rich man and his own funds won't last for long," she said.
Gattarov reportedly started the fundraising initiative at the behest of several bloggers. Anton Korobkov-Zemlyansky, a blogger and member of Russia's Civic Chamber, has promised to donate 30,000 rubles (£600) to the Snowden appeal.
On Tuesday, Kucherena said that Snowden had registered his new place of residence with the authorities, as all foreigners must do, although the location is being kept secret. He has already been offered a job by Pavel Durov, the founder of Russia's most popular social network, VKontakte.
Meanwhile, Gattarov has renewed his call for Snowden to assist a working group investigating US intelligence agencies' access to the personal information of Russian users, launched by the senator in light of his revelations.
In an interview on Tuesday with the National News Service, Gattarov said Snowden would help the working group to find "gaps in the storage of Russians' personal information" by western internet companies.
He argued that providing such information wouldn't harm the US and therefore wouldn't violate the condition for the whistleblower's stay, as set by President Vladimir Putin. "Snowden will help protect the constitutional rights of Russian citizens," Gattarov said.
Several local human rights activists have noted the irony of Snowden's temporary asylum in Russia, where government agencies have the ability to surveil virtually all phone and internet communications.
In a sarcastic letter to Snowden published on the website of radio station Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow), opposition activist Roman Dobrokhotov told "Ed" that he can make a wonderful career exposing US government wrongdoing in Russia.
"I would only advise you not to forget which government you're fighting against," Dobrokhotov wrote. "Because if you mix it up in the heat of the moment, you'll have to return to a capsule room (and this one probably won't be in the airport)."
• This article was amended on 8 August 2013. The first paragraph initially conflated the two sentences, giving the impression that Gattarov was raising funds for a Snowden investigation into the security of Russians' personal data. This error, which was repeated in the headline and standfirst, was introduced in the editing process. This has now been corrected.
Gattarov, a member of the ruling United Russia party, has said he will open a bank account and create a website to gather donations for the National Security Agency leaker, who was last week granted temporary asylum in Russia.
Gattarov told the Izvestiya newspaper that the domain name helpsnowden.ru had been registered and volunteers from several IT companies were developing the website.
The site will be available at helpsnowden.net for international donors. Neither website was working on Wednesday.
Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Izvestiya that the whistleblower would gratefully accept the help of donors in Russia and other countries. "Edward is not a rich man and his own funds won't last for long," she said.
Gattarov reportedly started the fundraising initiative at the behest of several bloggers. Anton Korobkov-Zemlyansky, a blogger and member of Russia's Civic Chamber, has promised to donate 30,000 rubles (£600) to the Snowden appeal.
On Tuesday, Kucherena said that Snowden had registered his new place of residence with the authorities, as all foreigners must do, although the location is being kept secret. He has already been offered a job by Pavel Durov, the founder of Russia's most popular social network, VKontakte.
Meanwhile, Gattarov has renewed his call for Snowden to assist a working group investigating US intelligence agencies' access to the personal information of Russian users, launched by the senator in light of his revelations.
In an interview on Tuesday with the National News Service, Gattarov said Snowden would help the working group to find "gaps in the storage of Russians' personal information" by western internet companies.
He argued that providing such information wouldn't harm the US and therefore wouldn't violate the condition for the whistleblower's stay, as set by President Vladimir Putin. "Snowden will help protect the constitutional rights of Russian citizens," Gattarov said.
Several local human rights activists have noted the irony of Snowden's temporary asylum in Russia, where government agencies have the ability to surveil virtually all phone and internet communications.
In a sarcastic letter to Snowden published on the website of radio station Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow), opposition activist Roman Dobrokhotov told "Ed" that he can make a wonderful career exposing US government wrongdoing in Russia.
"I would only advise you not to forget which government you're fighting against," Dobrokhotov wrote. "Because if you mix it up in the heat of the moment, you'll have to return to a capsule room (and this one probably won't be in the airport)."
• This article was amended on 8 August 2013. The first paragraph initially conflated the two sentences, giving the impression that Gattarov was raising funds for a Snowden investigation into the security of Russians' personal data. This error, which was repeated in the headline and standfirst, was introduced in the editing process. This has now been corrected.
US should leave Edward Snowden alone
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Photograph: Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras/AP
More than 150 civil society organisations from around the globe are asking President Barack Obama to end the prosecution of Edward Snowden (Activists stage second national day of protest against NSA's domestic spying, 4 August).
Human rights, digital rights and media freedom campaigners from the UK to Uruguay and from the US to Uganda have joined together to call on the US administration to acknowledge Snowden as a whistleblower. All of us ask that he is protected and not persecuted.
Snowden's disclosures have triggered a much-needed public debate about mass surveillance online everywhere. Thanks to him, we have learned the extent to which our online lives are systematically monitored by governments, without transparency, accountability or safeguards from abuse.
Rather than address this gross abuse, the US government has chosen to shoot the messenger. It has revoked his passport and obstructed his search for asylum. European governments have been quick to help.
The knock-on effect will be to encourage others to follow by example. States that have even less regard for their citizens will justify attacks on those who put themselves at significant risk to expose wrongdoing and corruption or raise matters of serious public concern.
We urge President Obama to protect Snowden and other whistleblowers like him. We ask that the president initiate a full, public investigation into the legality of the National Security Agency's actions. Perhaps, then, David Cameron might consider doing the same over allegations concerning GCHQ.
Dr Agnes Callamard
Executive director, Article 19, on behalf of more than 150 global organisations
US National Security Agency (NSA) fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden (centre) during a meeting with rights activists, among them Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks (left), at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on July 12, 2013.BRASILIA, Aug 7 — Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who published documents leaked by fugitive former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, plans to make new revelations “within the next 10 days or so” on secret US surveillance of the Internet.
“The articles we have published so far are a very small part of the revelations that ought to be published,” Greenwald yesterday told a Brazilian congressional hearing that is investigating the US Internet surveillance in Brazil.
“There will certainly be many more revelations on spying by the US government and how they are invading the communications of Brasil and Latin America,” he said in Portuguese.
The Rio de Janeiro-based columnist for Britain’s Guardian newspaper said he has recruited the help of experts to understand some of the 15,000 to 20,000 classified documents from the National Security Agency that Snowden passed him, some of which are “very long and complex and take time to read.”
Greenwald told Reuters he does not believe the pro-transparency website WikiLeaks had obtained a package of documents from Snowden, and that only he and filmmaker Laura Poitras have complete archives of the leaked material.
Greenwald said Snowden, who was in hiding in Hong Kong before flying to Russia in late June, was happy to leave a Moscow airport after being granted temporary asylum, and pleased that he had stirred up a worldwide debate on Internet privacy and secret US surveillance programs used to monitor emails.
“I speak with him a lot since he left the airport, almost every day. We use very strong encryption to communicate,” Greenwald told the Brazilian legislators. “He is very well.”
“He is very pleased with the debate that is arising in many countries around the world on Internet privacy and US spying. It is exactly the debate he wanted to inform,” Greenwald said.
After a meeting in June with Snowden in Hong Kong, Greenwald published in The Guardian the first of many reports that rattled the US intelligence community by disclosing the breadth and depth of alleged NSA surveillance of telephone and Internet usage.
Last month, in an article co-authored by Greenwald, the Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported that the NSA spied on Latin American countries with programs that can monitor billions of emails and phone calls for suspicious activity. Latin American countries fumed at what they considered a violation of their sovereignty and demanded explanations and an apology.
Commercial secrets
In Brazil, the largest US trading partner in South America, angry senators questioned President Dilma Rousseff’s planned state visit to Washington in October and a billion-dollar purchase of US-made fighter jets Brazil is considering.
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee peppered Greenwald with questions yesterday, such as whether the NSA was capable of spying on Brazil’s commercial secrets, including the discovery of promising offshore oil reserves, and the communications of the country’s president and armed forces.
Greenwald had no details on specific targets and said the documents did not name telecommunications and Internet companies in the United States and Brazil that might have collaborated with the NSA’s collection of Internet users’ data.
The journalist said Snowden planned to stay in Moscow “as long as he needs to, until he can secure his situation.” He said Snowden knew he ran the risk of spending the rest of his life in jail or being hunted by the most powerful nation in the world, but had no doubts about his decision to leak the documents on the US surveillance programmes.
Greenwald criticised governments around the world for failing to offer Snowden protection, even while they publicly denounced the US surveillance of their citizens’ Internet usage.
Meanwhile, Washington is working through diplomatic channels to persuade governments to stop complaining about the surveillance programs, he said.
“The Brazilian government is showing much more anger in public than it is showing in private discussions with the US government,” Greenwald told reporters. “All governments are doing this, even in Europe.”
In a speech at the United Nations yesterday, Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota called the interception of telecommunications and acts of espionage in Latin America “a serious issue, with a profound impact on the international order.” But he did not mention the United States by name. — Reuters
Human rights, digital rights and media freedom campaigners from the UK to Uruguay and from the US to Uganda have joined together to call on the US administration to acknowledge Snowden as a whistleblower. All of us ask that he is protected and not persecuted.
Snowden's disclosures have triggered a much-needed public debate about mass surveillance online everywhere. Thanks to him, we have learned the extent to which our online lives are systematically monitored by governments, without transparency, accountability or safeguards from abuse.
Rather than address this gross abuse, the US government has chosen to shoot the messenger. It has revoked his passport and obstructed his search for asylum. European governments have been quick to help.
The knock-on effect will be to encourage others to follow by example. States that have even less regard for their citizens will justify attacks on those who put themselves at significant risk to expose wrongdoing and corruption or raise matters of serious public concern.
We urge President Obama to protect Snowden and other whistleblowers like him. We ask that the president initiate a full, public investigation into the legality of the National Security Agency's actions. Perhaps, then, David Cameron might consider doing the same over allegations concerning GCHQ.
Dr Agnes Callamard
Executive director, Article 19, on behalf of more than 150 global organisations
New US spying revelations coming from Snowden leaks, say journalist
US National Security Agency (NSA) fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden (centre) during a meeting with rights activists, among them Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks (left), at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on July 12, 2013.BRASILIA, Aug 7 — Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who published documents leaked by fugitive former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, plans to make new revelations “within the next 10 days or so” on secret US surveillance of the Internet.“The articles we have published so far are a very small part of the revelations that ought to be published,” Greenwald yesterday told a Brazilian congressional hearing that is investigating the US Internet surveillance in Brazil.
“There will certainly be many more revelations on spying by the US government and how they are invading the communications of Brasil and Latin America,” he said in Portuguese.
The Rio de Janeiro-based columnist for Britain’s Guardian newspaper said he has recruited the help of experts to understand some of the 15,000 to 20,000 classified documents from the National Security Agency that Snowden passed him, some of which are “very long and complex and take time to read.”
Greenwald told Reuters he does not believe the pro-transparency website WikiLeaks had obtained a package of documents from Snowden, and that only he and filmmaker Laura Poitras have complete archives of the leaked material.
Greenwald said Snowden, who was in hiding in Hong Kong before flying to Russia in late June, was happy to leave a Moscow airport after being granted temporary asylum, and pleased that he had stirred up a worldwide debate on Internet privacy and secret US surveillance programs used to monitor emails.
“I speak with him a lot since he left the airport, almost every day. We use very strong encryption to communicate,” Greenwald told the Brazilian legislators. “He is very well.”
“He is very pleased with the debate that is arising in many countries around the world on Internet privacy and US spying. It is exactly the debate he wanted to inform,” Greenwald said.
After a meeting in June with Snowden in Hong Kong, Greenwald published in The Guardian the first of many reports that rattled the US intelligence community by disclosing the breadth and depth of alleged NSA surveillance of telephone and Internet usage.
Last month, in an article co-authored by Greenwald, the Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported that the NSA spied on Latin American countries with programs that can monitor billions of emails and phone calls for suspicious activity. Latin American countries fumed at what they considered a violation of their sovereignty and demanded explanations and an apology.
Commercial secrets
In Brazil, the largest US trading partner in South America, angry senators questioned President Dilma Rousseff’s planned state visit to Washington in October and a billion-dollar purchase of US-made fighter jets Brazil is considering.
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee peppered Greenwald with questions yesterday, such as whether the NSA was capable of spying on Brazil’s commercial secrets, including the discovery of promising offshore oil reserves, and the communications of the country’s president and armed forces.
Greenwald had no details on specific targets and said the documents did not name telecommunications and Internet companies in the United States and Brazil that might have collaborated with the NSA’s collection of Internet users’ data.
The journalist said Snowden planned to stay in Moscow “as long as he needs to, until he can secure his situation.” He said Snowden knew he ran the risk of spending the rest of his life in jail or being hunted by the most powerful nation in the world, but had no doubts about his decision to leak the documents on the US surveillance programmes.
Greenwald criticised governments around the world for failing to offer Snowden protection, even while they publicly denounced the US surveillance of their citizens’ Internet usage.
Meanwhile, Washington is working through diplomatic channels to persuade governments to stop complaining about the surveillance programs, he said.
“The Brazilian government is showing much more anger in public than it is showing in private discussions with the US government,” Greenwald told reporters. “All governments are doing this, even in Europe.”
In a speech at the United Nations yesterday, Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota called the interception of telecommunications and acts of espionage in Latin America “a serious issue, with a profound impact on the international order.” But he did not mention the United States by name. — Reuters
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