Tucker Carlson: NSA is spying on and undermining his show 😬

Mediate: NSA spying on Carlson?

I will grant it is not proven...yet..., but I have no idea why anyone would question this is possible. We have seen repeatedly the IRS and FBI being used for political partisan purposes. Most of the abuse is against conservatives. This does not appear to be rogue behavior, but actually condoned (or at least tolerated) by bureaucrat superiors.  

Instapundit: US Military Purges, Betraying Sources, and Mike Pompeo Interview

Twitchy: Brian Stelter is a fat starchy tuber and Spying on Tucker

Legal Insurrection: Biden NSA spying on Tucker Carlson

American Thinker: Giuliani's Suspension

AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.29.21

Powerline: NSA vs. Tucker?

Sanders Supporter and Anderson Cooper fan Reality Winner caught leaking classified documents to media...

Legal Insurrection: Reality Winner charged with leaking classified NSA document to media

Heavy: Reality Winner's Signed Anderson Cooper Picture

Hot Air: About that leak to the Intercept (what does it say about Russian hacking)

Instapundit: How the NSA caught Reality Winner, Being White is Terrorism, More on the FBI's arrest of Reality Winner, This is the deep state?, White Women, are they the worst or what?

Daily Caller: NSA Leaker is a Bernie Sanders Supporter

The Intercept went from an influential nat-sec publication to another basic bitch SJW rag, and now they out sources. It's over.

— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) June 6, 2017

AoSHQ: 25 year old leaker and Sanders-Anderson Cooper fan

ZeroHedge: NSA Leaker Reality Winner called Trump a real "POS"

Maybe she should work for CNN?

Heavy: Five Facts about Reality Winner

Well, look on the bright side, at least this Bernie Sanders supporter didn't slit anyone's throat...yet.

TOM: Anti-American Democrats: What the NSA Leaker Reveals About The Left

AoSHQ: Your Plan is Flawed, Reality and Fake News CNN's Camarotta

Mark Steyn: Question Mark?

Lem's Place: Reality Winner

You're the top/
You're a traitorous sinner/
You're the top/
You're Reality Winner

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 6, 2017

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Comey Corruption at the FBI

Instapundit: Comey's FBI broke its own rules and spied on Americans

I smell a Democrat

Lem's Place: Did Samantha Power ask that US citizens be unmasked and Media Ignoring Obama and Comey Corruption

When there is corruption, count on a Clinton being involved...

Don Surber: Dems pressure Comey to go after a Republican

Legal Insurrection: Will Comey use rat rhetoric to attack Trump?

EBL: Media Ignores Obama Spying Story, Curtains Comey, Did the Democrats Let Pakistani IT workers have access to classified information and steal millions?, and Fire Koskinen!

Instapundit: A false notion turns into a Constitutional Crisis, Declassified documents show Comey's FBI illegally spied on Americans, John Brennan, Obama Loyalists, diverts attention by investigating Trump, Fake Law, Fake Judges, The Deep State is out to get Trump, Brennan is not trust worthy, a bad year for the FBI

Instapundit: Glenn Reynolds: Did Obama Try To Hack The Election?

The partisan politicization of government agencies such as the FBI, IRS and EPA by the Democrats is a huge problem. 

Did Barack Obama try to hack the election? https://t.co/Nc0FGOjWj0 via @usatoday

— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) May 30, 2017

Lem's Place: Did Obama try to hack the election?

Wombat: Power Line: The Scandal Hiding In Plain Sight and American Power: Why Things Won’t Go Back To Normal For Failed Elites

Did the Obama Administration's Evelyn Farkas admit that the Obama Administration spied on Trump's Staff?

Twitchy: Did Obama Aide Evelyn Farkas just admit Trump's staff was spied upon?

Powerline: Fox News: Democrat Leakers Have Been Identified?

Fox News: Leakers facing hard time

Pundit from another Planet: It is not everyday you see someone admit to a felony on TV

Inquistr: Evelyn Farkas admits Obama Administration spied on Trump

Zero Hedge: If Farkas resigned in 2015, how did she have access to Trump-Russian intelligence?

The Goldwater: Did Evelyn Farkas just admit to leaking on Trump?

Instapundit: What If: Instapundit Thought Experiment, PJ Media: Evelyn Farkas blames the Russians for making her open up on Morning Joe

AoSHQ: Farkas Claims Her On-Air Revelation Obama Spied on PDT "a Wild Misinterpretation"

Powerline: Evelyn Farkas goes full Sergeant Schultz

Lem's Place: Obama Officials made list of Russian probe documents to keep them safe (Democrats always need dirt to dish against Republicans)

Byron York's Point 10:

Yes, what Evelyn Farkas said is important. Democrats are pooh-poohing Republican excitement over a just-noticed March 2 MSNBC interview in which former Obama Defense Department official Evelyn Farkas — she left the administration in 2015 — described how, during the transition, she urged her former colleagues to compile and distribute classified information regarding the Trump team. Farkas said she feared "that the Trump folks — if they found out how we knew what we knew about their, the Trump staff, dealing with Russians — that they would try to compromise those sources and methods." Farkas' statement clearly supports the Obama-Trump "breadcrumbs" theory, and the "if they found out how we knew what we knew" suggests — doesn't prove, but suggests — that the Obama team used some sort of irregular methods in its Trump information collection. Investigators need to know more about what Farkas said, and to whom.

Instapundit: Byron York: Obama Spying on others, No April Fools Joke: Hillary access to secrets and the Media-Left want to delegitimize Trump

Don Surber: Media completely miss the real story behind the Trump Administration

Legal Insurrection: Anti Trump hysteria sounds like Ben Rhodes echo chamber

PatriotRetort: Is Ben Rhodes, Mr. Leaky?

AoSHQ: 2020 Race for the White House

EBL: Susan Rice looks good in Orange

US Defense: Six Revelations

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Connect the Dots…

TOM: But He's Not A Catholic Priest (with tip to DaTechGuy)

TOM: Feminism: Equality in Misery (Both Smitty and Instapundit note how the feminists and the left worked so hard to destroy Sarah Palin…why is that?)
TOM: Love is Always an Exception (Instapundit addresses the issue too)
TOM: Operation Stalk My Girfriend (Instapundit notes the NSA news dump and their abuse of power)
TOM: Learning how to use tools yet young people don't know how to use tools (h/t BenK at AoSHQ for that one)

Barack Obama's response to the NSA: Let's give more rights to foreigners than Americans...

Barack Obama really is clueless...

I am no fan of the NSA monitoring all that it does, but the idea is strengthening civil liberties for Americans, not foreigners. Does he really think our allies (and certainly our enemies) don't monitor us?

Update:

President Obama promises to closely monitor his own Administration!

Obama message: Business as Usual

Edward Snowden to Nicaragua?

Or Venezuela or Bolivia?  

Can he get there? 

Edward Snowden is living in the Moscow airport terminal...

Putin claims he is not really in Russia so he is free to go where ever he wants.  Snowden is looking for a country that will accept him and not hold him for the USA.  Did the Obama Administration intentionally let Snowden escape? Does the Obama Administration really want to catch Snowden?

The Terminal is not exactly on point, but Snowden is (allegedly) living in the Moscow Airport so...

Update: 

Yeltsin's Schadenfreude
Wombat's Live at Five (Putin claims not grounds to expedite Snowden)
Hot Air: Snowden may be chilling in Moscow for a while...
TOM: Speaking of Kooks.
TOM: Glenn Greenwald is a ridiculous joke...
TOM/Wombat's Live at Five: Snowden denied asylum in Ecuador...

Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong for Russia...

Snowden on the run...

The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Snowden was heading for a "democratic nation" which it did not name, although a source at the Russian airline Aeroflot said he would fly on within 24 hours to Cuba and then planned to go to Venezuela. 

A round about way to get to Iceland...
Four laptops full of U.S. intel documents,what could go wrong?

#BREAKING: Snowden has requested asylum in Ecuador: foreign minister
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) June 23, 2013

Update:
TOM: Snowden flees 
TOM: Ben Smith wants you to ignore this...
Legal Insurrection:  Snowden on the run (makes me think of this song jump to around 2:09).
Hey, with all this Snowden stuff, there is even a special visa waiver in the craprehensive immigration bill for Hong Kong!  It has everything!
TOM: Speaking of Kooks.
TOM: Glenn Greenwald is a ridiculous joke...
Wombat Live at Five July 2, 2013:  Snowden denied to go to Ecuador, Russia says he can only stay there if he stops hurting US, may go to Venezuela.

Obama in Berlin: Yes We Scan!

Oh what a few years can do...

h/t to Schadenfreudelicious Obi's Sister

Smitty's Alice in Chains Berlin Post

Update:
George Will: Obama hits the wall...

Mark Steyn making way too much sense (as usual) about this NSA data mining:

Steyn has a gift of getting right to the heart of it...

One reason for the citizenry not to entrust its personal information to the government is that the big, bloated, blundering government is stupid enough to entrust it to Edward Snowden, as it was previously stupid enough to entrust it to Bradley Manning (the Wikileaks leaker). It’s only a matter of time before the halfwit leviathan entrusts it to a Major Hasan or a Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

h/t:  Bob Belvedere

Update:
Scientific American:  Five unknowns about the NSA's black hole...
Snowden reveals classified info to Hong Kong papers (this is not how a hero acts). 

@msebl @radleybalko @senrandpaul @rsmccain My thoughts on Brooks' column here:pjmedia.com/instapundit/17…
— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) June 12, 2013

Snowden still in Hong Kong and talking to the press... 
Ace thinks Snowden is looking dodgy.  Agreed.  I think he looked dodgy from the start.

Tweet of the Day: Well Said Representative Stockman, well said...

Obama is collecting private information on every American, but says it's wrong to make someone show an ID to vote.
— Rep. Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) June 7, 2013

Update:
Twitchy recognizes greatness:  Congressman Stockman could take this act on the stand up circuit!  

Edward Snowden Rule 5: Acutally Snowden's Alleged Girlfriend Lindsay Mills

The power of Rule 5 compels me.  This is supposedly Edward Snowden's Hawaii girlfriend, Lindsay Mills.  Here is a Google cache of her blog (she deleted it but it lives on digitally).

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Is that Snowden with Ms. Mills?  

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Edward, where are you?  

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She is apparently shy and reserved...

Prior EBL posts:
Edward Snowden:  Hero, Villain, or a bit of both?
Separated at Birth: Edward Snowden and...?

Update:

NSFW: Is #Snowden's ex-girlfriend "smoking hot"? beccalower.com/nsa-leaker-edw… Whatever. She's not a GENIUS like @beccajlower IYKWIMAITYD
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) June 11, 2013

 Mark Steyn on Snowden
TOM:  It is like a Hollywood Script  You mean like one of those bad Democrat Liberal politically motivated movies that no one watches?  I was hoping for stripper Cirque du Soleil!
Proof Positive has her as his Rule 5 too

@msebl @radleybalko @senrandpaul @rsmccain My thoughts on Brooks' column here:pjmedia.com/instapundit/17…
— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) June 12, 2013

Snowden still in Hong Kong and talking to the press... 
Ace thinks Snowden is looking dodgy.  Agreed.  I think he looked dodgy from the start.
Snowden reveals classified info to Hong Kong papers (this is not how a hero acts).

Edward Snowden: Hero, villain, or a bit of both?

Edward Snowden interview by Glenn Greenwald  (I am going mostly villain)

While I am glad we are finding out about the NSA data mining, I am disturbed by the means Edward Snowden went about it and then his fleeing to Hong Kong (of all places):

If the question is should Snowden have leaked such closely held secrets, I would reluctantly answer "yes." But if you are going to deliberately break the law in a civil society, you must be prepared to accept the consequences. Snowden ran away from those consequences. That does not make him a hero in my book. It makes him a criminal. Why didn't Snowden leak the information and then turn himself in? That would have been heroic. Instead, despite his protestations that he doesn't want the story to be about him, he comes off as a glory hound, an attention getter.

Douglas Rushkoff at CNN is describing Snowden as a hero (I am not buying that at all, especially given him fleeing the USA, nor do I consider it equivalent to what Daniel Ellsberg did in the sixties or consider Ellsberg a hero).

Robert Stacy McCain asks the more important question:  How did Snowden get the security clearance he got?  The NSA's secrets are only as safe as its weakest link, and entrusting them to a guy like Snowden is pretty damn weak.*  Was Snowden's employer Booz Allen looking for his replacement before he fled?

Daiman Thompson suggest this will be fatal to Obama's presidency.  I do not see that (at least not with just the NSA data mining).  There was bipartisan authorization under the Patriot Act and what was done by the NSA may be unconstitutional, it was arguably not illegal.  Now if this goes further and their is proof the Obama administration used this material improperly, then there might be something.  No one is saying that yet (at least as I am aware).

The amount of damage Snowden could do the USA if he stays in China is enormous.  Not so much on what he has leaked already (that just brought to the attention of the general public things that have been known by many people for a long time), but on what he might know and has not yet leaked.  Normally most people do not consider the People's Republic of China as a bastion of free speech.  Snowden claims he is trying to get to Iceland, but I doubt Iceland will want him now.

* I do not know what level of security clearance Edward Snowden had.  Here is the questionnaire you have to answer to get one.  Assuming no criminal background or other red flags, I do not see how not going to college would prevent you from getting a security clearance (hell depending on the college you attended, that might be a red flag in itself).

Update:
Da Tech Guy on Snowden:  Rosenberg, Roeden, Brutus, or Rommel?
Legal Insurrection:  This is not the first time such details were leaked...
TOM: Let's debate 4th Amendment rights and send Snowden to Leavenworth...  (Florence Colorado's supermax also works for me).
The Coward Snowden ran off again...
TOM: Edward Snowden's dubious heroism...
Lt.Col. Ralph Peters suggests the appropriate punishment (definitely not hero worship)...
Even the Daily Beast cautions against hero worship for Snowden
Thomas E. Ricks is leaning toward hero for Snowden...
Roger Kimball on the Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin (on the Snowden issue)
Investigators trying to figure out how Snowden obtained access to the NSA material he gave out (if he could hack it, who else could hack it)...
Americans by 2:1 ratio not bothered by NSA tracking
Stay Classy David Axelrod:  Snowden is a whistleblower who then blew the country...
DaTechGuy draws a conclusion looking at the Edward Snowden case and the Kaitlyn Hunt Smith matter...
Separated at Birth: Edward Snowden and...?
Ed Snowden's pole dancing girl friend...
Is what the NSA doing the same as what Google does (maybe both of them are evil)?  Richard Cohen does not see the big deal and considers Snowden a minor insignificant figure who wrecked his life:

[Edward Snowden} jettisoned a girlfriend, a career and, undoubtedly, his personal freedom to expose programs that were known to our elected officials and could have been deduced by anyone who has ever Googled anything. History will not record him as “one of America’s most consequential whistleblowers.” History is more likely to forget him. Soon, you can Google that.

Obama email meme goes viral... 
Mark Steyn on Snowden
Scientific American:  Five unknowns about the NSA's black hole...
TOM:  It is like a Hollywood Script  You mean like one of those bad Democrat Liberal politically motivated movies that no one watches?  I was hoping for stripper Cirque du Soleil!  

@msebl @radleybalko @senrandpaul @rsmccain My thoughts on Brooks' column here:pjmedia.com/instapundit/17…
— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) June 12, 2013

Snowden still in Hong Kong and talking to the press... 
Ace thinks Snowden is looking dodgy.  Agreed.  I think he looked dodgy from the start.
Snowden reveals classified info to Hong Kong papers (this is not how a hero acts).

Mark Steyn asks: Rather than spying on all Americans (and the world), why aren't we more selective and attentive with Muslim radicals?

Mark Steyn is absolutely correct.  I would point out something else.  Schools over react over kindergarten kids even mentioning a gun.  Now compare those over reactions with the non-reaction to the clear signals from Major Hasan (before he began shooting his fellow soldiers)?

Update:
Gay Patriot asks the flip side of that question:  If Al Qaeda is supposedly on the run, why is this surveillance required?

TOM notes, what have we learned over the last few weeks?  Intrusive government surveillance of its citizens and the IRS targeting political opposition for audits?  How does this keep us safer?  

Govt has to scrape all your phone calls and emails because govt forgot to enforce immigration law on 20 expired visas in 2001.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 8, 2013

LI: When everything is a crime, government data mining matters.
Jay Leno: We wanted a President who listened to all Americans, and now we have one...
TOM: Obsessed, who me?
TOM: The Five Million Dollar Idiot (Chris Tingles Matthews and the 4th Estate, MSNBC)
Mark Steyn on Snowden