when mr snowden was in hong kong in two thousand and thirteen. it was in a situation where the most wanted man on the planet with the world's largest manhunt underway. this is this was not an ordinary situation i literally had minutes. you know once i was instructed by mr snowden to make decisions that would affect his liberty in this life form a cia employee snowden leaked a vast trove of classified national security agency data on u.s. government spying operations he fled to hong kong where asylum seekers helped shelter him from the authorities for two weeks russia later granted him asylum and he's lived here ever since. china says it was edward snowden himself who took the decision to leave quote through a lawful and normal channel but rather to insist that snowden was persecuted as were the other refugees who were sheltering him. december two thousand and sixteen when i was in germany speaking at a conference the i received a phone call that the sri lankan police criminal investigation department had flown into hong kong specifically targetin

hong kong are in grave danger now this is new in former cia employee snowden leaked those classified national security agency said it dates back in two thousand and thirteen on the u.s. government spying operations then he fled to keep track of it to hong kong or asylum seekers help shelter him from the authorities for around two weeks human rights lawyer robert helped organize the hideout for the whistleblower edward snowden's passport was then revoked and then he was charged with espionage in the u.s. now russia granted him asylum he's remained here for the past five years the former lawyer for edward snowden gave us some exclusive insights on how the whistleblowers helpers have been victimized in late december two thousand and sixteen when i was in germany speaking at a conference the i received a phone call that the. sri lankan police criminal investigation department had flown into hong kong specifically targeting the snowden refugees so once i received that information from some witnesses i contacted the clients and i advised them to leave their homes immediately and we had sec

income surratt has been accused of forcing edward snowden's former lawyer to flee the city last year spoken exclusively about the pressures he claims he faced and the victimization of the people he says who helped shelter snowden back in twenty thirty in late december two thousand and sixteen when i was in germany speaking at a conference the i received a phone call the sri lankan police criminal investigation department had flown into hong kong specifically targeting the snowden refugees so once i received that information from some witnesses. i contacted the clients and i advised them to leave their homes immediately and we had secure locations for them the first question the police had for my clients was all about mr snowden and i had to put a stop to this quite frankly i was shocked that the whole police were focusing on mr snowden's activities in two thousand and thirteen one in two thousand and seventeen the issue that the police had to address the safety and security of my clients then i found out they continued to arrest some of my clients and former clients and trying to mak

on mr snowden's activities in two thousand and thirteen one in two thousand and seventeen. the issue that the police had to address were the safety and security of my clients. point that raised a red flag for me and i became concerned the hong kong police had it. put it to them that the story about the sri lankan police coming to hong kong was fabricated and that i had fabricated the story and i asked my clients and also the sri lankan the witnesses to the snowden refugees that they asked them to make it up the hong kong police had actually asked the that had asked the witnesses to this for the police if they would testify against me in a criminal court. and you know without evidence and i realized my instincts were right and it wasn't safe anymore then i found out they continued to arrest some of my clients and former clients and trying to make a case against me. and at that time because we had closed down our house and we had vacated it in hong kong i found out there were seven police officers at my former home and they were actively searching for me. the so called the ye

former cia employee snowden a potted history here. trove of classified national security agency data on the u.s. government spying operations you may recall he fled first of all on kong where saddam seekers helped shelter him from the authorities for two weeks for a brief period they left on kong through official channels and then since then russia is granted snowden asylum for the past five years he's lived there ever since but the reality it seems was much more cruel for those who helped shelter the whistleblower back in hong kong is robert tibo again. in hong kong there's a point two percent acceptance rate of asylum seekers so pretty much every single asylum seeker in hong kong will be rejected and deported the snowdrift proven that they are extraordinary individuals and this doesn't fit in with the narrative of the hong kong government. the government has portrayed asylum seekers as you know being undesirable criminals etc. trying to come into hong kong and take away. you know financial prosperity of hong kong which is all nonsen

say employee snowden leaked classified national security agency data you may recall in u.s. government spying operations what caused it all in the first place he fled briefly to hong kong where asylum seekers help sheltered from the authorities but two weeks after leaving hong kong through official channels at the time then he went on a trip to russia he was granted asylum he's lived there ever since but the reality was much more cruel it seems for the people who helped shelter the whistleblower back in hong kong with more of that sort of it robert to go again geog in hong kong there's a point two percent acceptance rate of asylum seekers so pretty much every single asylum seeker in hong kong will be rejected and deported the snowdrift proving that there are extraordinary individuals and this doesn't fit in with the narrative of the hong kong government. the government has portrayed asylum seekers is being undesirable criminals etc. trying to come into hong kong and take away jobs and financial prosperity called which is all nonsense and speculation my clients need to leave

just two weeks then after leaving hong kong through official channels it was russia they granted snowden asylum he's lived or ever since for last five years but the reality it seems is much more cruel for those who help sheltered the whistleblower back at home call it moral that. it's just geography in hong kong there's a point two percent acceptance rate of asylum seekers so pretty much every single asylum seeker in hong kong will be rejected and deported the snowdrift proving that there are extraordinary individuals and this doesn't fit in with the narrative of the hong kong government. the government has portrayed asylum seekers is being undesirable criminals etc. trying to come into hong kong and take away jobs and. financial prosperity called which is all nonsense and speculation my clients need to leave hong kong they need to leave to a safe country because they're not safe in hong kong and they can't go back to their home countries. this is a bit different. fans of the fantasy classic lord of the rings' know that those beasts like all costs are a force to be reckoned with they jus

when mr snowden was in hong kong and two thousand and thirteen. it wasn't a situation where the most wanted man on the planet with the world's largest manhunt underway. this is this was not an ordinary situation i literally had minutes. you know once i was instructed by mr snowden to make decisions that would affect his liberty and his life. the greatest fear was that. because hong kong has a history of assisting the u.k. u.s. and extraordinarily rendition people on the whole can government has a history. of allowing mainland chinese security forces to come into hong kong and abductor people and bring them out of the territory and as well which. was not anticipated. government had allowed the sri lankan police to come into hong kong. that time it was mr snowden's liberty life were at risk and he required a safe place to stay. the so-called yellow vest movement in france has vowed to hold a further rallies nationwide against rising fuel taxes president emanuel micron is refusing to back down despite two weeks of mass unrest. last saturday's demonst

or the snowden disclosures. edward snowden violated the law and the requirement he is had under the law to protect classified information but did so with respect to one program where he purported to be defending america's civil liberties, a program designed to collect all the phone calls or at least information in the continental united states. hotel and revealed a tremendous amount of other information that had little to no impact, the debate about whether stone was right or wrong to do that. whether he was a traitor or not, i lean on the side of traitor. but nobody can argue that edward snowden did trigger a debate that was valuable in the surveillance arena which is to say this question whether we should be collecting metadata and under what circumstances and that debate led to legislation, the usa freedom act passed by congress and signed by the president even though both the bush and obama administration continued that policy all the way to the law passed from 9/11 forward that changed the way the program f

or about the snowden disclosures where edward snowden i think nobody would disagree violated the law and the requirements he had under the law to protect classified information, but did so at least with respect to one program where he purported to be defending america's civil liberties. a program designed to collect substantially all the phone calls or at least information about all the phone calls in the continental united states. your phone calls. my phone calls. your e-mails. my e-mails. the to/from information about all those conversations. he also revealed, stole and revealed a tremendous amount of other information that had little to no impact on americans' privacy and civil liberties. debate about whether snowden was right or wrong to do that, whether he was a traitor or not. i happen to lean on the side of traitor, but that's a reasonable debate to have. nobody can argue that, in fact, edward snowden did trigger a debate that was valuable in the surveillance arena, which is to say this question whether we should be collecting all this metadata and if so, under what circumstan

from wikileaks to help snowden leave hong kong.slk about julian assange history and hayden saying these are the reasons you should be arrested even outside of whatever the mueller inquiry iss about. questionse those two separately. we have the fact that we can assist snowden asylum and the fact that wikileaks published ca materials. wikileleaks has done what other media organizations can and should develop time, which is receiving classified information and publishing it in the public interest. that information was verified and shown to be in the public interest and wikileaks has done no different than any other media organization of publishing that material. with respect to assisting edward snowden. he is been granted asylum. the disclosures made by snowden have been demonstrated to be in the public interest. we're seeing decisions on americans constitutional rights to privacy, showing the conduct of the american government was unconstitutional. import information. i think the world has been grateful for the information that edwar

launches it away and somehow he got away from charles snowden.ut the night -- how about the second half that snowden has had? >> rod: snowden makes this tackle -- >> adam: they're out of field goal range. >> rod: he has him right there. loses him. and then how about willis saving the field goal possibility? >> adam: they would have lost 20 to 25 yards. instead, they'll keep it going for brian johnson. >> rod: no gimme here. >> adam: made one from 31 earlier. can he make it from beyond 40? and he delivers. much maligned in the second half of the season, brian johnson with a clutch kick to put virginia tech in front at the end of the top of the first overtime. now virginia will go to work. a field goal forces double overtime. a touchdown ends a decade and de half of futility against its rival. >> rod: this is why you chose to go on defense first. now you know, you're bronco mendenhall. you know a field goal will get you a tie and into the next overtime. how aggressive will you be to get the touchdown to end this? >> adam: happy thanksgiving, everyb

overnight, the justice department charges wikileaks founder julian assange with a firm tie to the edward snowden case and the alleged russian hacking during the presidential campaign. this morning, the shocking details about how the feds accidentally revealed the charges. >>> the mistress comes forward. this morning new revelations about the colorado man charged with killing his wife and their two daughters before making a plea on tv for their safe return. what his mistress is now revealing about their affair before the killings. >>> those stories, plus housekeeping exposed. what hidden cameras found in some of the world's most popular hotels. >>> a long lost disney film from the days before mickey mouse finally found. >>> and good morning, everyone. i'm kendis gibson. >> and i'm lynda lopez. we begin with that historic storm blasting the country with up to a foot of snow, ice and freezing rain. >> the early season nor'easter moved in with intensity from the midwest to the carolinas and up to new england where rain, sleet and snow is causing havoc again this morning. the timing couldn't be worse

also ahead edward snowden's former lawyer tells us the whistleblower was forced to flee hong kong in twenty thirteen after pressure from chinese authorities. this is this was not an ordinary situation i literally had minutes. you know once i was instructed by mr snowden to make decisions that would affect his liberty in this life. the racism in middle earth and or third planes the beast like works from the lord of the rings maybe victims of the school. hello and welcome to our to international on this the last day of november a chilly friday i think in moscow but the sun is well and truly out in argentina's capital buenos aires where leaders of the world's most industrialized economies are meeting. the. proceedings officially get on the way for the g. twenty summit in what a little over an hour from now at the new a meeting is expected to be clouded with differences over many issues as the year see new alliances formed on longstanding one strained leslie across to amman in argentina. who's standing by in the capital hi there before we perhaps get to the overall picture here there's a

it's with chelsea manning, with the cia's vault 7 documents, it's with snowden, helping snowden abscondrom hong kong to russia and wikileaks' involvement in the 2016 election hack. so my sense is if he has in fact been charged, that prosecutors do have evidence that he was involved in one or multiple of these incidents, going beyond the mere act of publication. whether it was his assistance to snowden, whether it was his encouragement of individuals to join our intelligence community to help get these vault 7 documents purportedly from the cia, whether it was his collusion with the russian government. i think if there is in fact a decision to prosecute julian assange or at least to try to charge him that, we will see some sort of concrete involvement that goes well beyond what would be covered by the first amendment. >> ned price, thank you so much. cynthia, you're on air more than i am today, thank you very much. >> coming up, the latest on the florida recount after this. late florida recount after this fidelity is redefining value for investors. introducing zero account fees for broke

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are and how does that shape our understanding of where this larger dynamic is in the country. >> snowden was, i don't know how popular he was on campus, i got the impression he was. i think he was at students for liberty for example and did a talk via satellite there, from moscow, exactly. so at the same time, it's not all that surprising given that he's presented as a rebel against the system which is a very common way to make yourself popular among young people is to look like the rebel with a cause kind of thing. i did want to get back to a little bit about how exactly we, and i'm not sure if the audience really knows this, most of the countries of the world make it just flat out illegal to report on certain things. and what a lot of people don't know is that australia, canada, and britain have very tight and i think, i think they're nuts, tight restraints on what the press can cover in regards to national security. in america is unique where essentially the rule is more or less, it's the government's job to make sure this doesn't get to the press, if it gets to the press, you are don

european parliament has long since ceased to rely on sure and says from the americans after the snowden affair it made tough demands for independence for europe we need the commission we need the parliament to arch clearly on the member states to deliver rules and standards on how the. bridge to consider the key figure for you data protection low explains why. going to. microsoft and. i've been. called start this and done towards. the so-called don't need. it in the you're going to do will come soon for instance. has to go for negotiate with microsoft alternative on the market that they can't go. that's a. good. move. for months. of open source software. but these are just bean. and beater. doesn't. just. do isn't just meant. ministers and. inventive. and so it. appears. and we actually did to get at is you want to be something. as early as twenty thirteen. new commission of adopted a program to free the european institutions and member states from the dependence on a few american software companies. why have the commissioners abandoned this policy. i don't think abundance is this polic

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secretary was in saudi saying he wanted to get to the bottom of the shoji killing even as edward snowdenwas reeling that he was claiming israeli spy ware was used because assassination. odd that don should be in saudi arabia to talk about. whiles apparently there was an ongoing operation in yemen colonel tokyo mulkey of the saudis military said there was ongoing when you make a jeremy hunt being in i'm surprised you know the german hunty did not actually directed any blame to the saudi government he said you know we managed or we succeeded actually to reach some sort of deal with the saudi government to let the injured people to be treated outside yemen does that mean we're going to hooty community people going to will be england well i wish so many were so you know because simply why he was silent this war is going on for at least a year three years and a half what about those people who were injured more than thirty thousand yemenis were injured most of them children and civilians why british government was silent about this why now there realize that there are injured people who need

edward snowden's former lawyer claims the whistleblower was forced to flee hong kong in twenty thirty after pressure from chinese authorities.

and edward snowden deserve death penalty and that is not. going to gauge the freedom of joy that is there is not in or death penalty for these people and i think jim acosta jim acosta for all now the white house for all the world when you want to ask a question there is a crime against the freedom of press right and the point with our son is that every time he says something in there and he cracks up to be right he has been seeing that there was the sealed indictment against him he has been saying that for years and for years that of states and the u.k. denied it and now we see accidentally that it was true and it popped up then you know you know mark you know i guess it was a few months ago i was in this calendar year the kollywood came out with their film the post in celebrating the washington post when it came to the pentagon papers in one thousand nine hundred ninety one. and. ellsberg in wellsburg he was. the enemy of the nixon administration but the post in other journalists they stood up for. freedom of the press and for freedom of ex

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