Snowden on the Move

by Stephen Lendman

Where is Edward Snowden? Unanswered questions remain. Supposedly he traveled from Hong Kong to Moscow en route to Havana and Quito, Ecuador. Or did he? More on that below.

On June 25, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) headlined "Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance."

He said so. "My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked," he explained.

"That is why I accepted that position about three months ago." He took less pay "in the course of pursuing specific work. Booz was not the most I've been paid."

On May 20, Snowden arrived in Hong Kong. According to SCMP, he contacted documentary film maker/producer Laura Poitras in January.

He said he had information about US intelligence community activities. He first met her and two UK reporters in Hong Kong. He has volumes of classified US documents. Some were released. Others will be later.

They reveal lawless US spying and hacking. He wants them made public. "I did not release them earlier," he said, "because I don't want to simply dump large amounts of documents without regard to their content."

"I have to screen everything before releasing it to journalists."

"If I have time to go through this information, I would like to make it available to journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to whether or not the knowledge of US network operations against their people should be published."

He wants nothing released harmful to US security. He wants information revealed important for everyone to know.

He knew the risks and took them. He did the right thing because it matters. He acted responsibly, ethically and legally. He didn't commit espionage as wrongfully charged. HE EXPOSED IT on a massive, unprecedented scale!

He sacrificed financial security and freedom doing so. He explained, saying:

"You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk, because they're such powerful adversaries that no one can meaningfully oppose them."

"If they want to get you, they