TheRealNews reports on Coleen Rowley, Norman Solomon, and Ray discussing Edward Snowden, his right to get his passport back and be free of threats.

This short segment highlights Establishment Washington and Mainstream Media hypocrisy in their continued effort to “kill the messenger,” while at the same time measures are being taken to end the abuses made known only through the patriotic whistleblowing of that same messenger, Edward Snowden.

The scene was the National Press Club on March 25; The Real News Network, as usual, has put together an excellent short package, based primarily on the reporting of a TRNN correspondent on the scene. (8 min.)

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11662

 

Report on News Conference by Charlie Clark of Government Executive

http://www.govexec.com/management/2014/03/should-edward-snowden-get-his-passport-back/81238/?oref=river

Ray has since called Clark’s attention to the clip (see below) of Michael Hayden telling a supine, sleepy audience at the same National Press Club on Jan. 23, 2006 that the 4th Amendment does not say “probable clause.” How easily NSA came to mean No Such Amendment!

You have to see it to believe it. Thanks are due Jonathan Landay for asking the question that elicited Hayden’s extraordinary interpretation of the 4th Amendment.

Gen. William Odom, one of Hayden’s predecessors as NSA Director, had already told an interviewer (on Jan. 4, 2006) that Hayden “should be court-martialled” and that President Bush “should be impeached.”