My friend and mentor John Judis has a piece out in The New Republic putting today’s news in the context the low-level harassment and surveillance he was put under as a pretty unthreatening New Left radical journalist back in the 60s and early 70s. I can see that John and I are coming at this whole story from pretty different sides. But John’s a smart enough guy and I’ve seen enough times when he saw things that I missed and got things right that I got wrong that I wanted to link to his piece.
Hong Kong-based TPM Reader RC says Beijing/Hong Kong will send Snowden back to the USA …
As a longtime HK-based journalist and Beijing observer, my view is that there isn’t really a scenario in which Beijing wouldn’t send back Edward Snowden. In their minds he is a lawbreaker of the worst, Ai Weiwei-Liu Xiaobo kind.
Some of Greenwald’s statements sound a bit more like threats than laying out a story.
Icelandic lawmaker says she’s ready to help Snowden get asylum in Iceland.
